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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 Ex-Moonshot (post-training & agents, diffusion model training), second-time technical founders, engineers that made 100+ games for Voodoo, Supersonic, Sidemen 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, Deepmind, Cognition, & 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 systems, focusing on world generation pipelines, data-efficient training methods, and inference-time optimization for real-time generation. Your work will enable everyone make, play and monetize highly engaging games & 3D environments. Our current research spans:\nDistributed multi-agent orchestration systems for coordinated world synthesis, spanning terrain generation, asset population, and behavior trees\n\nReinforcement learning pipelines for adaptive, open-ended game generation with hierarchical action spaces and dynamic difficulty adjustment\n\nAgentic codegen & diffusion-based tooling for creating studio quality simulated environments\n\nWe’re looking for engineers who have:\nStrong software fundamentals and comfort switching between production systems and research\n\nExperience building or training large multimodal or agentic systems\n\nFamiliarity with distributed training, data curation, or large-scale vision/3D pipelines at scale\n\nBonus: Have worked on generative vision, world models, or RL systems.\n\nStrong candidates may also have:\nExperience training or fine-tuning diffusion or other generative vision models.\n\nPrior work in robotics, multi-agent systems, or simulation-based RL.\n\nFamiliarity with game engines or 3D simulation frameworks as experimental testbeds.\n\nCompensation:\nBase salary of $200,000 - $350,000, + $165,750- $353,250 equity and benefits.\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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