As a founding engineer, you will architect the generation and simulation stack for interactive 3D environments serving millions of users. You will bridge the gap between frontier research and production systems, building real-time diffusion models and multi-agent orchestration to transform multimodal inputs into studio-quality multiplayer games instantly.
Member of Technical Staff at Applied AI Lab building World Models
Join an elite team of researchers from DeepMind and OpenAI at this San Francisco-based Applied AI Lab. You’ll be building the world's most advanced 3D generation engine, enabling anyone to create studio-quality multiplayer games in under two minutes. With 13M+ users already in the ecosystem and backing from T1 VCs behind ByteDance and Anduril, this founding role offers a rare chance to ship frontier diffusion and agentic models at massive scale. If you are a high-velocity engineer ready to define the next generation of interactive 3D worlds, this is the most compelling sprint in AI right now.
Overview
Role overview
Company
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Applied AI Lab building World Models backed by investors in ByteDance and Anduril
Responsibilities
What you will do
- Develop agent orchestration and context management systems for complex multi-agent coordination within 3D worlds.
- Implement and optimize real-time diffusion models for world augmentation and high-fidelity environment generation.
- Build advanced code generation systems that automatically translate natural language into functional game logic and interactions.
Candidate profile
Who this is a fit for
- Has built and shipped production-grade generative AI systems (code, image, video, or 3D) serving millions of users at a top-tier lab or high-growth startup.
- Demonstrates a hands-on technical pedigree with a background in AI from the start of their career, avoiding heavy corporate or unrelated industry pivots.
- Possesses the grit to thrive in an intense, sprint-based environment, including a committed push through a 7-day-a-week schedule for a generational product launch.
What makes it remarkable
Why this role is remarkable
- Solve the 3D data scarcity problem by building a world engine that generates custom environments and captures complex user behavior for leading robotics companies.
- Join an elite team of researchers from DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic moving at extreme velocity, such as training V0 diffusion models in just four hours.
- Gain high-upside founding equity in a venture-backed lab with 13M+ existing users and a massive Q1 product launch already in motion.
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