World Models R&D Engineer: Video Generation & Multimodal AI

Alexander Chapman Ltd; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Alexander Chapman Ltd. in Palo Alto searches for highly technical researchers and engineers to work on world models, video generation, multimodal AI, robotics, autonomous systems, and related areas.

You will turn frontier research into real-world systems, building training, inference, and production pipelines, and collaborating across research, engineering, and product teams to ship impactful technology. The role emphasizes experimentation, rigorous evaluation, and participation in the broader

Qualifications

• Deep technical experience in world models, generative modeling, video, multimodal learning, robotics, or large-scale ML.
• Ability to design and run experiments from hypothesis to production-ready results.
• Strong problem-solving skills and first-principles thinking.

Responsibilities

• Develop world models and controllable video generation approaches beyond current diffusion and transformer methods.
• Build conditioning and control for actions, cameras, physics, style, and long-horizon consistency.
• Turn research into production-ready prototypes through iterative experimentation.
• Design large-scale training, evaluation, and inference systems.
• Develop rigorous evaluations for controllability, reliability and real-world performance.
• Collaborate across research, engineering, and product to ship breakthroughs.
• Contribute to the broader research community through publications and open tools.

Skills

World models

Generative modeling

Video generation

Multimodal learning

Robotics

Large-scale ML

Job description

Alexander Chapman Ltd. in Palo Alto searches for highly technical researchers and engineers to work on world models, video generation, multimodal AI, robotics, autonomous systems, and related areas.

You will turn frontier research into real-world systems, building training, inference, and production pipelines, and collaborating across research, engineering, and product teams to ship impactful technology. The role emphasizes experimentation, rigorous evaluation, and participation in the broader