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Research Engineer - World Models

Acceler8 Talent
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 7/6/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 8/2/2026

Research Engineer - World Models ๐ŸŒ - Onsite, Downtown San Francisco ๐Ÿ“


Hiring for a Stealth frontier AI lab building real-time AI gaming companions

Think AI squadmates that can learn, plan, understand game worlds, and play side-by-side with humans ๐ŸŽฎ


Looking for someone research-led with experience in:

๐Ÿง  Reinforcement learning, imitation learning, or sequential decision-making

๐ŸŒ World models like Dreamer, V-JEPA, Genie, AlphaStar, SIMA, Voyager, MineDojo, or related work

๐Ÿ“š Reading and implementing recent research from top AI labs and conferences

๐Ÿš€ Training, evaluating, and shipping models - not just integrating APIs

๐Ÿ“„ Top ML/AI publications a big plus


Backed by major AI gaming investors, including NVIDIA ๐ŸŸฉโšก


Interested? Hit apply!

Salary : $200,000 - $250,000

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