# Research Engineer / Scientist (3D Tech Lead)

About World Labs World Labs is a frontier AI research and product company advancing spatial intelligence, the next frontier beyond large language models. Co-founded by Dr. Fei-Fei Li, Justin Johnson and Ben Mildenhall, the company is pioneering world models that perceive, generate, reason, and interact with virtual and physical worlds. The company’s flagship product, Marble, transforms text, images, and video into fully navigable 3D worlds, unlocking applications across gaming, film, architecture, robotics, and immersive digital experiences. Backed by leading investors and with over $1B raised, World Labs is assembling a world-class team at the intersection of AI research and real-world deployment. Role Overview We’re looking for a Tech Lead for 3D Modeling & Reconstruction to set technical direction and drive execution for our core 3D modeling efforts. This role is ideal for someone with a strong research science (RS) or research engineering (RE) background who has made meaningful contributions to the field of 3D reconstruction and/or modeling-through academic publications, widely used open-source projects, or production systems deployed at scale. This is a hands-on leadership rol

- **Id**: 948551
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/world-labs-research-engineer-scientist-3d-tech-lead-2>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-01-28T01:00:14Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-01-28
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T17:35:34Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 291
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6141
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Generative 3D, Foundation Models, AI Research Labs

## Company

- **Id**: 43961
- **Name**: World Labs
- **Domain**: worldlabs.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/world-labs>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 95
- **Open postings**: 8
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 208
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 250000
- **Max**: 350000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 350000

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Computer Vision** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **World Models** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Days open**: 290

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-15T22:36:32Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 8; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 7; Filings 12m: 7

## Liveness

- **Score**: 31
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.697
- **P room**: 0.44
- **Age days**: 291
- **Expected fill days**: 208
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 350000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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