World Labs is looking to revolutionize artificial intelligence by developing Large World Models that go beyond language and 2D visuals into complex, embodied 3D environments. They need to build the infrastructure that allows AI to understand, simulate, and interact with physical and digital worlds, requiring systems that can scale to world-sized data and computation challenges.
Requirements
- Proven experience building and scaling distributed systems with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and observability.
- Strong foundation in a systems programming language (C++, Rust, or Go preferred).
- Familiarity with Linux systems, cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure), and IaC tools (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.).
- Experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Proficiency in monitoring and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, etc.).
- Bonus: domain expertise in database systems, storage engines, query processing, or streaming data pipelines.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate high-performance distributed systems that power modern AI products. This includes AI training, inference, and serving, as well as service and API infrastructure.
- Optimize performance bottlenecks to scale throughput and reliability by orders of magnitude.
- Define long-term technical direction and system evolution for core infrastructure components.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, research, and systems teams to deliver scalable, resilient backend services.
- Dig deep into complex production issues across the stack, from networking to storage to orchestration.
- Contribute to system reliability through incident response, postmortems, and best practices.
Other
- 4+ years of relevant industry experience, including 2+ years leading large-scale distributed systems or backend projects.
- Fearless Builder: You thrive on architecting systems that scale and love tackling hard distributed systems problems.
- Performance Obsessed: You think deeply about latency, throughput, and efficiency — and enjoy finding elegant solutions to complex bottlenecks.
- Resilient Innovator: You’re driven to build reliable systems that enable world-changing AI research.
- Mission-Aligned: You’re passionate about advancing spatially intelligent AI and want to work at the frontier of human–machine understanding.
