World Labs
World Labs is a spatial intelligence company building Large World Models (LWMs) to perceive, generate, and interact with the 3D world. We aim to lift AI models from the 2D plane of pixels to full 3D worlds – both virtual and real – endowing them with spatial intelligence as rich as our own. We believe that humans are innovative, curious, and creative; science and technology are both manifestations
8 open roles
Roles are read from World Labs’s Ashby every hour and disappear here as soon as they close there.
World Labs hiring insights
Counted from every role read from its board, compared with every startup listed on firsthires.live.
Key findings
- World Labs has the 859th most open roles of 2,630 startups hiring on firsthires.live.
- 8 open roles is 0.5× the average Growth startup here (17.2).
- 50% of openings are in Science, then Engineering (38%).
- Most roles are mid level (88%). None are tagged for graduates or interns.
- With a team of about 75, these openings would grow headcount by up to 11%.
- Median posted pay of $288k is 55% above the Growth startup median ($186k).
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- Science pay here (median $300k) is 59% above the market median for Science ($189k).
- 100% of its roles post pay, against 42% across all listed startups.
- 0% of its roles are fully remote (market: 22%).
- 8 postings say they sponsor visas.
- 8 roles added in the last 30 days; 0 closed in the last 90.
- A typical open listing here is 7 months old, against 2 months across the site.
Hiring momentum
50 is flat. Blends the 4-week change, the 12-week trend and net roles added.
- Added, last 4 weeks
- 00%
- vs 0 in the 4 weeks before
- Added last week
- 00%
- Week before: 0
- Weekly trend
- +0.00
- Roles/week, per week · R² 0.00
- Net roles, 4 weeks
- +0
- 0 added − 0 closed
- Forecast this week
- 0
- Holt exponential smoothing
- Average week
- 0.0
- σ 0.0 · CV —
- 4-week refresh rate
- 0%
- New roles ÷ open roles
- 4-week churn
- 0%
- Closed roles ÷ open roles
- Median time listed
- >90 days
- 0% close within 30 days
Momentum, explained
- World Labs hasn’t added enough roles in the last few months to read a trend yet.
Hiring history
- Roles ever listed here
- 8
- Roles added in 30 days
- 8
- Roles added in 90 days
- 8
- Roles closed in 90 days
- 0
- Tracked since
- Oct 2026
- Rank by open roles
- #859
- of 2,630 hiring startups
- Openings per current employee
- 0.11
Volume and freshness
- Open roles
- 8
- Listed in the last 7 days
- 0
- 0% of open roles
- Listed in the last 30 days
- 0
- 0% of open roles
- Typical listing age
- 7 months
- Oldest: 10 months
Pay
- Median posted pay
- $288k
- Annual USD, range midpoint
- Middle half of pay
- $259k–$300k
- 25th to 75th percentile
- Roles that post pay
- 100%
- 8 of 8
- Mention equity
- 0%
Work, level and access
- Fully remote
- 0%
- Say they sponsor visas
- 8
- Graduate and intern roles
- 0
- Median experience asked
- 6 yrs
Breakdowns
- 1Science450%
- 2Engineering338%
- 3Operations113%
- 1Mid level788%
- 2Executive113%
- 1Onsite8100%
- 1San Francisco8100%
- 1Full-time8100%
- 1Research563%
- 2Engineering225%
- 3Business113%
Pay is each role’s posted range converted to annual US dollars, midpoint. See every World Labs role.