# Research Scientist - World Model at Luma AI

- Company: Luma AI
- What the company does: Luma AI is the creative AI platform for video generation and image creation. Powered by the world's leading video generation models, Ray and Uni, and creative agents handling end-to-end workflows. Trusted by leading agencies and brands. Try it free. Backed by General Catalyst, a16z and CRV.
- Company website: https://lumalabs.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Redwood City, CA
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-07-24
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/lumaai/ed5b169b-7aef-4f84-993b-42a5aabd1bd4
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/luma-ai-research-scientist-world-model/

## About the role

You'll turn Luma's industry-leading generative video models into world models: interactive, controllable, physically faithful, and useful as a substrate for embodied reasoning. This is the role at the center of the thesis.

## What they're looking for

- PhD or equivalent research record in ML, computer vision, robotics, or a related field
- Deep expertise in at least one of: large-scale generative modeling (video/3D/world), self-supervised representation learning, or model-based RL
- Strong PyTorch and large-scale training experience, to the limits of a multi-node cluster
- A research record the field knows (top-venue publications and/or widely used open releases)

Tags: Research & AI