World Model Research Scientist - Physical AI
Kodiak AI is an active public company providing AI-powered autonomous ground-vehicle technology, principally through the Kodiak Driver for commercial trucking, industrial trucking, and defense applications.
Funding history
About Kodiak AI, Inc.
Kodiak Driver combines AI-powered software and modular, vehicle-agnostic hardware to enable driverless vehicle operations. Kodiak commercializes the technology through a Driver-as-a-Service model and serves trucking, industrial, and defense customers.
Skills
Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will design and train generative world models that synthesize multi-camera video and LiDAR. You will research conditional diffusion architectures, develop multi-view and cross-sensor consistency techniques, build evaluation frameworks, and scale distributed training pipelines using real-world driving data.
Requirements
- Hold a PhD in Computer Science, AI, Robotics, or a related field focused on generative modeling, neural rendering, or video synthesis
- Demonstrate research contributions in diffusion models, video generation, neural radiance fields, 3D-aware generative models, or world models
- Demonstrate experience with neural rendering, view synthesis, and multi-view geometric consistency
- Demonstrate proficiency with multimodal camera, LiDAR, and radar data
- Demonstrate familiarity with BEV grids, voxel fields, or tri-planes
- Demonstrate Python and PyTorch skills
- Demonstrate experience training large generative models using distributed training
Responsibilities
- Design and train generative world models for multi-camera video and LiDAR
- Research and implement conditional diffusion architectures
- Develop techniques for multi-view geometric consistency
- Build methods for joint camera, LiDAR, and radar generation
- Design world-model evaluation frameworks
- Scale distributed training pipelines using real-world driving data
Benefits
- Equity
- Annual bonuses
- Medical, dental, and vision plans
- Infertility benefits
- Legal services
- Identity and fraud protection
- Hospital indemnity insurance
- Accident insurance
- Critical illness insurance
- Flexible PTO
- 10 paid holidays
- Parental leave
- Dog-friendly office
- Free catered lunch
- Fully stocked kitchen
- Free EV charging
- Long-term disability insurance
- Short-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Wellbeing benefits
- 401(k)
- Commuter benefits
- FSA
- Dependent Care FSA
- HSA
- Referral bonuses
- Patent bonuses