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$140,000 - 220,000/ year

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Description

Company

The company is creating the future of interactive entertainment.

We’re building the platform for worldbuilders, storytellers, and game devs to create and publish any ‘what if’ they can think of. So far, most of the 25k+ user published presets on our site are historical (eg, ‘what if Rome never fell?’), but fantasy and sci fi are the fastest growing categories on the site.

Role

Each game on the company is run by the AI model the user picked to run their game. Games are much more fun if the AI running their game is able to balance long-term internal consistency with creative developments - in short, if the AI is good at storytelling.

But today, we’ve barely scratched the surface of getting the best possible results out of the ~240B tokens processed on our site each week. The same default AI workflows run across very different models, and we haven’t done much to adapt to the quirks of the 37+ models on our site now. We think our games can be much more interesting than they are today, which is why we’re hiring for this role.

On day one, you’d experiment with workflow architecture and prompts to begin making improvements and building the evals needed to figure out whether you’re actually making games better.

You might be a great fit if you’re extremely experiment-driven, a big-picture systems-thinker, and a storyteller yourself. We don’t expect you to have done this exact job before, but we are expecting you to be a fast learner with extremely strong fundamentals.

Logistics

You’ll be our 7th team member. We work in-person in San Francisco, 5+ days/week. We are open to sponsoring visas.

Comp will include meaningful equity to reflect your responsibility as a founding engineer.

Experience: Any (new grads ok)

Visa: US citizen/visa only

Where you’d work

From the office

The office

Visa sponsored

About the company

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  • Industry: Gaming

Office in San Francisco, United States

Your chances

Likely still hiring, moderately crowded, and a person reads your message.

  • 19 checks run
  • 5 good signs
  • 3 red flags

Still hiring?

12 checks

Likely active

In its favour3

  • Still on the company's own careers site, checked 4 h agoModerate evidence
  • States its salarySlight evidence
  • A hiring contact is attached to itSlight evidence

Against it1

  • Posted 5 weeks ago, older than 87% of the open roles we trackModerate evidence

How crowded?

7 checks

Moderate

In its favour2

  • You can message the hiring contact and skip the queueModerate evidence
  • In the office in San Francisco: only people nearby can take itSlight evidence

Against it2

  • Open for 5 weeks: applications have had time to pile upModerate evidence
  • Sponsors visas: applicants from abroad compete for it tooSlight evidence
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Type
Full-time
Equity
Equity offered
Industry
Gaming
Region
United States
Pay period
Annual
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Role

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Development

Location

Work model
Office
Region
United States
Office
  • San Francisco, United States
Visa sponsorship
Sponsored

Compensation

Salary
$140,000 - 220,000 / year
Pay period
Annual
Equity
Equity offered

Employment

Type
Full-time

Company

Industry
Gaming

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