Pipeline Engineer (Graphics/3D)
$200k - $325k • San Francisco
Posted 20d ago
Remote Work Policy
On-site
Categories
Applied AI Engineer
About the job
World Labs is a frontier AI research and product company focused on spatial intelligence, developing world models that perceive, generate, reason, and interact with virtual and physical worlds. Their flagship product, Marble, transforms various inputs into navigable 3D worlds for applications in gaming, film, architecture, robotics, and immersive digital experiences. Backed by significant investment, World Labs is building a world-class team at the intersection of AI research and real-world deployment.
This role involves building a production-grade web application for 3D Gaussian Splat scene generation, editing, and publishing. It's a high-ownership, full-stack role with a backend focus, bridging R&D and frontend. You will work across graphics/ML algorithms, backend services, and frontend UI, transforming proof-of-concepts into reliable, debuggable, and delightful shipped features. The ideal candidate thrives on making complex systems work smoothly in production and continuously improving them based on user feedback.
Responsibilities
- Bridge research and product by collaborating with graphics/computer vision researchers and frontend engineers to ship usable features.
- Transform standalone Python scripts into clean, production-ready systems with clear inputs, outputs, validations, and failure modes.
- Develop backend services, APIs, and tooling to reliably and scalably expose complex 3D workflows.
- Assist with integrations across the 3D ecosystem, including asset import/export and format conversion with common DCC tools.
Requirements
- Strong pipeline mindset with experience turning scripts into production systems.
- Enjoy building tools and infrastructure that enable others.
- Fluency in the 3D ecosystem, including familiarity with 3D algorithms, DCC tools, and common 3D file formats.
- Strong proficiency in Python, including packaging, typing, tooling, debugging, and performance profiling.
- Strong literacy in core 3D graphics and computer vision concepts (e.g., transforms, cameras, coordinate systems, rendering, visual artifact debugging).
- Demonstrated experience taking prototypes to production, including refactoring, testing, CI/CD, versioned artifacts, and reproducibility.
- Solid backend fundamentals, including HTTP APIs, FastAPI (or similar), async/concurrency, cloud deployment, and service reliability.