Research Scientist - World Modeling

Team: Research

Location: Abu Dhabi

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: onsite

Key Responsibilities

• Develop the foundational world model to accurately simulate the physical world.
• Collaborate with engineering and data teams to tackle key challenges in training the world model on large-scale clusters.
• Develop metrics and evaluation benchmarks to better assess model performance.
• Design and implement a scalable and efficient data annotation pipeline to ensure high-quality labeled data for training and evaluation.
• Optimize inference efficiency to enable real-time interaction. 

Areas of Focus

• Scalable Training Systems: Develop and optimize infrastructure for training multimodal LLMs and video diffusion models at massive scale. 
• Efficient Data Pipelines: Build scalable video data pipelines and annotation frameworks to support high-quality training data. 
• Inference Optimization: Enhance inference efficiency through optimization and distillation techniques to enable real-time interaction. 
• Visual Tokenization: Develop methods for discretizing visual features into tokens for improved model representation. 
• Quantitative Evaluation: Establish rigorous benchmarks to assess physical accuracy, controllability, and intelligence. 
• Scaling Laws for Video Pretraining: Investigate scaling law principles to guide efficient video pre-training strategies. 

Academic Qualifications

• MSc or PhD in Machine Learning or Computer Science, or equivalent industry experience. 

Professional Experience

• Experience in large-scale model training (LLMs or Diffusion Models) on large clusters. 
• Hands-on experience with state-of-the-art video generative models (e.g., Sora, Veo2, MovieGen, CogVideoX, etc.). 
• Experiences in building and optimizing large-scale video data pipelines. 
• Experience in accelerating diffusion model inference for improved efficiency. 
• Exceptional problem-solving and troubleshooting skills to tackle complex technical challenges. 
• Strong systems and engineering expertise in deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch. 
• Strong communication and collaboration skills for effective cross-functional teamwork. 
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and drive projects in rapidly evolving research areas. 
• Research contributions to top-tier conferences or journals (e.g., ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, ACL, CVPR, COLM, etc.), with published work in relevant domains.