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We're lifting models from the 2D plane of pixels into the full dimensionality of interactive worlds. Our work spans everything required to perceive, reason about, and create in 3D, with applications across simulation, design, and play.\nOur first focus is gaming: 3D environment generation and understanding for interactive entertainment, technology that enables millions of people to explore, create, and share highly engaging worlds together.\nSimilar to how TikTok turned everyone into a creator through easy-to-use tools, we will let everyone turn their ideas into games without needing any technical skills.\nSince founding earlier this year, we have:\nLocked in 1,000+ gaming & livestream creators (100 K-10 M followers each) who will launch Roam games to an aggregate reach of 250 M+ fans.\n\nAssembled a 12 person applied AI team spanning ByteDance Seed, Nous Research, NASA (multi-agent workflows, diffusion model training), second-time technical founders, engineers that made 100+ games for Voodoo and Supersonic and built mobile apps from 0-2M DAUs.\n\nRaised an unannounced round from investors behind Google Deepmind, Bytedance, Anduril, Together AI and Polymarket, angels from OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Windsurf & large content creators.\n\nAcquired a consumer product studio with 11.5M+ downloads.\n\nAbout the Role:\nYou’ll work at the intersection of applied AI and large-scale platform engineering. 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Our current engineering focus spans:\nArchitect and automate self-serve developer platforms: build pipelines for LLM-powered game generation, asset integration, and production-ready toolchains.\n\nDesign integrations across 3D engines, iOS/mobile, and cloud systems to speed up iteration and deployment.\n\nInstrument automated testing and feedback systems that learn from both self-play and user behavior, accelerating bug detection and product polish.\n\nOwn new platform features end-to-end -from design to production, ensuring reliability, scalability, and developer usability.\n\nQuickly assess and refine Roam’s existing architecture, enforce clear service contracts, and eliminate deployment friction in your first week.\n\nWe’re looking for engineers who have:\nScaled AWS (Lambda, SQS, S3, EC2, IAM, DynamoDB), and multiplier backend infra.\n\nDeep fluency in sql, nosql, python.\n\nSignificant experience in software engineering and in applied AI.\n\nComfort with Vector DBs (Pinecone, OpenSearch) and semantic search systems.\n\n1+ year full time experience at a hypergrowth startup.\n\nStrong candidates may also have:\nTraining and finetuning diffusion and language models\n\nWork in research and robotics\n\nExperience with Game Development, 3D engines / Shaderlab\n\nCompensation:\nBase salary of $180,000 - $400,000, and 0.25% - 1% equity.\n\nFree housing, food, and transportation.\n\nVisa Sponsorship & relocation support.\n\nGrowth Opportunity\nYou’ll join a mission-driven team working at the frontier of AI world generation. 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