Member of Technical Staff (Infrastructure)

Astrocade is an AI technology company building super-intelligence for the interactive world delivered through a breakout consumer platform.

Todays frontier models can write reason and generate video. None can build a world you can step into and act on. Interactive world models are one of the defining problems on the path to ASI and the foundation of the next great consumer platform. Interactivity is the holy grail of content: not something you watch but something that responds to you. Were further ahead than anyone: the only team building the intelligence and the platform together and both are already live.

Our social UGC platform lets anyone create and play interactive experiences through natural language. And its one of the fastest-growing consumer products in the world with over 30 million users in just months since launch. Creators bring to life games companions that remember and grow with them learning experiences that adapt like a great tutor and social worlds built with friends. The platform also powers our research with data no video dataset contains: millions of creators prompting and refining gives us paired data of human intent and the worlds that fulfill it and every play session produces ground-truth action-labeled interaction data at scale. All of it flows back into our models and research ships to real players in days spinning a flywheel no one else can build.

We are a small team from Google Research Meta FAIR and Stanford led alongside Fei-Fei Li with frontier-scale compute and direct ownership of core model problems. We are backed by Sequoia Capital Google NVIDIA and luminaries including Eric Schmidt and Jerry Yang.

The next foundational AI company will be built where world models meet a billion players. Were the rare place where frontier research and a breakout consumer platform are one company and where your work ships to millions not to a paper. Come build it with us.

The hardest part of what were building isnt the games its the platform underneath them. Were serving millions of players running agentic AI pipelines in real time and building the recommendation systems that shape what people discover and play. As an Infrastructure MTS youll own the systems that make all of that work: reliable cost-efficient and fast at real scale.

We benchmark everything. Quality of AI-generated games is our north-star metric and infrastructure is what makes that metric possible to move.

• Design and build the infrastructure powering game creation serving and discovery at scale

• Own cost optimization and compute efficiency unit economics are a real constraint and we take them seriously

• Build and maintain the agentic pipelines that take a creators idea and produce a playable game

• Develop and scale recommendation and personalization infrastructure what gets shown to whom and when

• Instrument systems deeply: structured logging performance profiling capacity planning

• Help other engineers build on a platform thats reliable and fast to ship on

• Have 48 years of infrastructure platform or systems engineering experience

• Have designed and operated high-traffic serving systems recommendations content delivery streaming or similar

• Think in systems: you ask what breaks at 100x this load before you ship and you design for it

• Have strong instincts around cost/performance tradeoffs and have made real calls in production environments

• Are comfortable in Python-heavy backends and fluent across the infra stack

• Experience at companies with large-scale recommendation or personalization infrastructure (YouTube Meta TikTok Airbnb Snap Snowflake)

• Background in agentic or LLM-integrated systems

• Experience with 01 infrastructure builds or legacy-to-modern migrations

• Observability and reliability engineering (youve been on-call and made systems better because of it)

• Competitive salary meaningful equity and performance bonus.

• 100% employer-paid medical dental and vision insurance for employees and eligible dependents.

• Flexible PTO and unlimited sick time.

• $650/month AI Tools budget to use on the tools that help you do your best work.

• $500/month Lifestyle Benefit for wellness fitness meals house cleaning and more.

• $200/month Fun Benefit to spend on hobbies travel games concerts or whatever brings you joy.

• Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave for birth parents and 12 weeks for non-birth parents plus a $1500/month childcare benefit.

• $2000 workspace setup allowance and $200/month commuter benefit.

• Daily breakfast lunch and dinner on in-office days plus regular team events and offsites.

• 401(k) retirement plan through Human Interest.
  

Join us to help build the future of interactive entertainment!

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Staff IC