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Senior Research Engineer, Interactive World Models

US, CA, Santa Clara💼 Full-time💰 $184,000–$184,000🗓 2026-08-20 → 2026-09-25

Core

Lead engineering for NVIDIA's real-time world simulation stack (FlashDreams/FastGen), enabling autonomous driving, robotics, and virtual training applications.

Role type

Senior Research Engineer (Applied ML & Systems)

Builds

Real-time world model execution layers, continuous autoregressive serving loops, and simulation workflows.

Domain

Generative AI, World Models, Robotics, Autonomous Driving

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Video/World models, Diffusion/Generative modeling, Model distillation, Simulation, Robotics, Computer vision, Real-time stateful ML systems

Preferred skills

Post-training generative video models, Real-time stateful generative inference systems, Open-source ML project stewardship

Technologies

Python, PyTorch, GPU-accelerated training/inference, vLLM, SGLang, FastVideo, LightX2V, Diffusers, FlashInfer

Responsibilities

Build and optimize continuous autoregressive serving loops with per-step control and KV-cache management; Advance production-ready world models via few-step distillation and long-horizon spatiotemporal memory; Lead end-to-end delivery of multi-user simulation workflows from prototype to release.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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