Astrocade is an AI technology company building super-intelligence for the interactive world, delivered through a breakout consumer platform.
Today's 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. We're 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 it's 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, Character.ai, 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. We're 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.
Games are more engaging, more meaningful, and more fun than passive content - and we think everyone should be able to make them. As a Frontend Member of Technical Staff (MTS), you’ll help make that a reality. You’ll own the creation and play experiences that millions of users touch every day, working at the intersection of product intuition, AI-generated content, and consumer-grade polish. This is a small, dense team: you won’t be maintaining someone else’s system - you will be shaping how the platform feels.
Build and own core user-facing features across the creation and discovery experiences
Work closely with AI/systems engineers to surface complex, AI-generated content in ways that feel fast, intuitive, and delightful
Make opinionated calls on UX - we care about taste, not just correctness
Optimize for performance at real consumer scale (tens of millions of users, high-frequency play sessions)
Contribute to frontend architecture decisions and uphold high code quality standards
Have 7+ years of frontend experience (ideally on consumer products)
Are fluent in React and TypeScript, and have strong opinions about their use
Have built products where experience quality was central to the product
Have worked on data-rich or real-time UIs (feeds, game rendering, dashboards, etc.)
Are self-directed and work independently from idea to shipped product
Experience with WebGL, canvas, or game rendering
Experience on high-growth consumer platforms (Instagram, TikTok, Roblox, YouTube)
Familiarity with recommendation-driven feed UIs
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 $1,500/month childcare benefit.
$2,000 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!
","descriptionPlain":"Astrocade is an AI technology company building super-intelligence for the interactive world, delivered through a breakout consumer platform.\n\nToday's 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. We're further ahead than anyone: the only team building the intelligence and the platform together, and both are already live.\n\nOur social UGC platform lets anyone create and play interactive experiences through natural language. And it's 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.\n\nWe are a small team from Google Research, Meta, FAIR, Character.ai http://Character.ai, 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.\n\nThe next foundational AI company will be built where world models meet a billion players. We're 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.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nGames are more engaging, more meaningful, and more fun than passive content - and we think everyone should be able to make them. As a Frontend Member of Technical Staff (MTS), you’ll help make that a reality. You’ll own the creation and play experiences that millions of users touch every day, working at the intersection of product intuition, AI-generated content, and consumer-grade polish. This is a small, dense team: you won’t be maintaining someone else’s system - you will be shaping how the platform feels.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU’LL DO\n\n - Build and own core user-facing features across the creation and discovery experiences\n\n - Work closely with AI/systems engineers to surface complex, AI-generated content in ways that feel fast, intuitive, and delightful\n\n - Make opinionated calls on UX - we care about taste, not just correctness\n\n - Optimize for performance at real consumer scale (tens of millions of users, high-frequency play sessions)\n\n - Contribute to frontend architecture decisions and uphold high code quality standards\n\n\n\n\nYOU’D BE A GREAT FIT IF YOU:\n\n - Have 7+ years of frontend experience (ideally on consumer products)\n\n - Are fluent in React and TypeScript, and have strong opinions about their use\n\n - Have built products where experience quality was central to the product\n\n - Have worked on data-rich or real-time UIs (feeds, game rendering, dashboards, etc.)\n\n - Are self-directed and work independently from idea to shipped product\n \n \n\n\nBONUS POINTS:\n\n - Experience with WebGL, canvas, or game rendering\n\n - Experience on high-growth consumer platforms (Instagram, TikTok, Roblox, YouTube)\n\n - Familiarity with recommendation-driven feed UIs\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE OFFER\n\n - Competitive salary, meaningful equity, and performance bonus.\n\n - 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and eligible dependents.\n\n - Flexible PTO and unlimited sick time.\n\n - $650/month AI Tools budget to use on the tools that help you do your best work.\n\n - $500/month Lifestyle Benefit for wellness, fitness, meals, house cleaning, and more.\n\n - $200/month Fun Benefit to spend on hobbies, travel, games, concerts, or whatever brings you joy.\n\n - Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave for birth parents and 12 weeks for non-birth parents, plus a $1,500/month childcare benefit.\n\n - $2,000 workspace setup allowance and $200/month commuter benefit.\n\n - Daily breakfast, lunch, and dinner on in-office days, plus regular team events and offsites.\n\n - 401(k) retirement plan through Human Interest.\n \n\n\n\nJoin us to help build the future of interactive entertainment!","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":"$180K – $250K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus","scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":"$180K - $250K","compensationTiers":[{"id":"d1bd81bd-7de8-47ed-bdbe-ebab2de1a697","tierSummary":"Estimated Base Salary $180K – $250K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus","title":null,"additionalInformation":null,"components":[{"id":"8f7d2cc8-ff03-4d63-a452-03ade12d3cd3","summary":"Offers Equity","compensationType":"EquityPercentage","interval":"NONE","currencyCode":null,"minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"id":"eccf9386-85f3-4f6b-8e08-5dc8656e9ada","summary":"Offers Bonus","compensationType":"Bonus","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"id":"9b1e9738-76c6-4ac1-bdeb-a56d9fb8211b","summary":"Estimated Base Salary $180K – $250K","compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":180000,"maxValue":250000}]}],"summaryComponents":[{"compensationType":"EquityPercentage","interval":"NONE","currencyCode":null,"minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"compensationType":"Bonus","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":180000,"maxValue":250000}]}},{"id":"6094e72f-01f5-4d12-91a1-61be2a7a2ea4","title":"Member of Technical Staff (Infrastructure)","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Palo Alto","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":true,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-04-05T01:50:24.863+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"postalCode":"94301","addressRegion":"California","streetAddress":"300 Hamilton Ave","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Palo Alto"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/astrocade/6094e72f-01f5-4d12-91a1-61be2a7a2ea4","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/astrocade/6094e72f-01f5-4d12-91a1-61be2a7a2ea4/application","descriptionHtml":"Astrocade is an AI technology company building super-intelligence for the interactive world, delivered through a breakout consumer platform.
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Our social UGC platform lets anyone create and play interactive experiences through natural language. And it's 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, Character.ai, 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. We're 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 we're building isn't the games — it's the platform underneath them. We're 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, you'll 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 creator's 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 that's reliable and fast to ship on
Have 4–8+ 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 0→1 infrastructure builds or legacy-to-modern migrations
Observability and reliability engineering (you've 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 $1,500/month childcare benefit.
$2,000 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!
","descriptionPlain":"Astrocade is an AI technology company building super-intelligence for the interactive world, delivered through a breakout consumer platform.\n\nToday's 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. We're further ahead than anyone: the only team building the intelligence and the platform together, and both are already live.\n\nOur social UGC platform lets anyone create and play interactive experiences through natural language. And it's 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.\n\nWe are a small team from Google Research, Meta, FAIR, Character.ai http://Character.ai, 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.\n\nThe next foundational AI company will be built where world models meet a billion players. We're 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.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nThe hardest part of what we're building isn't the games — it's the platform underneath them. We're 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, you'll own the systems that make all of that work: reliable, cost-efficient, and fast at real scale.\n\nWe benchmark everything. Quality of AI-generated games is our north-star metric, and infrastructure is what makes that metric possible to move.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL DO\n\n - Design and build the infrastructure powering game creation, serving, and discovery at scale\n\n - Own cost optimization and compute efficiency — unit economics are a real constraint and we take them seriously\n\n - Build and maintain the agentic pipelines that take a creator's idea and produce a playable game\n\n - Develop and scale recommendation and personalization infrastructure — what gets shown, to whom, and when\n\n - Instrument systems deeply: structured logging, performance profiling, capacity planning\n\n - Help other engineers build on a platform that's reliable and fast to ship on\n\n\nYOU'D BE A GREAT FIT IF YOU:\n\n - Have 4–8+ years of infrastructure, platform, or systems engineering experience\n\n - Have designed and operated high-traffic serving systems — recommendations, content delivery, streaming, or similar\n\n - Think in systems: you ask \"what breaks at 100x this load\" before you ship, and you design for it\n\n - Have strong instincts around cost/performance tradeoffs and have made real calls in production environments\n\n - Are comfortable in Python-heavy backends and fluent across the infra stack\n\n\nBONUS POINTS\n\n - Experience at companies with large-scale recommendation or personalization infrastructure (YouTube, Meta, TikTok, Airbnb, Snap, Snowflake)\n\n - Background in agentic or LLM-integrated systems\n\n - Experience with 0→1 infrastructure builds or legacy-to-modern migrations\n\n - Observability and reliability engineering (you've been on-call and made systems better because of it)\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE OFFER\n\n - Competitive salary, meaningful equity, and performance bonus.\n\n - 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and eligible dependents.\n\n - Flexible PTO and unlimited sick time.\n\n - $650/month AI Tools budget to use on the tools that help you do your best work.\n\n - $500/month Lifestyle Benefit for wellness, fitness, meals, house cleaning, and more.\n\n - $200/month Fun Benefit to spend on hobbies, travel, games, concerts, or whatever brings you joy.\n\n - Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave for birth parents and 12 weeks for non-birth parents, plus a $1,500/month childcare benefit.\n\n - $2,000 workspace setup allowance and $200/month commuter benefit.\n\n - Daily breakfast, lunch, and dinner on in-office days, plus regular team events and offsites.\n\n - 401(k) retirement plan through Human Interest.\n \n\n\n\nJoin us to help build the future of interactive entertainment!","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":"$165K – $250K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus","scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":"$165K - $250K","compensationTiers":[{"id":"03ce17d8-ee2b-4734-99d3-8b2e7d0c94b8","tierSummary":"Estimated Base Salary $165K – $250K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus","title":null,"additionalInformation":null,"components":[{"id":"a2873348-200a-4053-abae-22f779a301a5","summary":"Estimated Base Salary $165K – $250K","compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":165000,"maxValue":250000},{"id":"05e53ca7-dc40-4f08-bab3-fa5e6d23b45a","summary":"Offers Equity","compensationType":"EquityPercentage","interval":"NONE","currencyCode":null,"minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"id":"964d754e-8004-4fa4-afaf-10170219b4bb","summary":"Offers Bonus","compensationType":"Bonus","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null}]}],"summaryComponents":[{"compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":165000,"maxValue":250000},{"compensationType":"EquityPercentage","interval":"NONE","currencyCode":null,"minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"compensationType":"Bonus","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null}]}},{"id":"653be160-78f3-458d-b834-1c7afc56cb71","title":"Product Growth","department":"Product ","team":"Product ","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Palo Alto","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":true,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-04-07T20:45:26.868+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"postalCode":"94301","addressRegion":"California","streetAddress":"300 Hamilton Ave","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Palo Alto"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/astrocade/653be160-78f3-458d-b834-1c7afc56cb71","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/astrocade/653be160-78f3-458d-b834-1c7afc56cb71/application","descriptionHtml":"Astrocade is an AI technology company building super-intelligence for the interactive world, delivered through a breakout consumer platform.
Today's 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. We're 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 it's 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, Character.ai, 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. We're 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.
Growth at Astrocade is not a single funnel - it is two sides of a platform that have to grow together. Creators need a reason to build here. Players need a reason to stay. As our product growth hire, you will help own the strategy, experimentation, and analytics foundation that helps both sides move, while developing a deep understanding of user behavior, motivations, and friction points across the ecosystem. This role sits at the intersection of product, data, design, and engineering, turning insight into action for creators and players alike.
This is a hands-on IC role with a clear path to more ownership as we scale. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and grow. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every single qualification, we’d still love to hear from you.
Own product growth across acquisition, activation, engagement, retention, and expansion for both creators and players
Identify the highest-leverage opportunities across creator and player funnels, and prioritize ruthlessly. Finding the right balance between the priorities of both players and creators and when making product decisions.
Build a deep understanding of users through data, experiments, feedback, and direct observation
Think in systems: evaluate how growth decisions affect different users, surfaces, and loops, and flag unintended consequences before shipping
Run rigorous experiments and turn insights into shipped product improvements
Partner with engineering and design to build onboarding, discovery, viral, and activation experiences
Improve the creator journey from first visit to first published game, reducing friction and accelerating time-to-value
Define core metrics, communicate the why behind recommendations, and document decisions and learnings clearly
Use and own agentic tools to automate workflows, uncover insights, and scale what works
Have a strong track record of shipping experiments, features, or systems that moved key metrics such as activation, retention, engagement, or conversion
Are deeply curious about users and can combine data with judgment, direct user understanding, and product sense
Are highly fluent in data and analytics: comfortable with product analytics tools, experiment design, and translating ambiguous behavior into actionable insight
Have strong product sense - you can spot high-leverage opportunities, scope tight MVPs, and ship without overthinking
Thrive in ambiguity and are energized by building from zero rather than optimizing what already exists
Communicate clearly and document exceptionally well - you can explain the “why,” define the goal, outline tradeoffs, and leave behind recommendations that cross-functional partners can execute against independently
Are a strong cross-functional collaborator - you've worked closely with engineering, design, marketing, and data teams
Want to grow into a team leadership role as the growth function scales
Experience growing a two-sided marketplace, creator platform, or consumer social product
Familiarity with viral growth mechanics and community-led growth loops
Experience building a growth function from scratch at an early-stage company
Comfort working on AI-integrated product experiences
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 $1,500/month childcare benefit.
$2,000 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!
","descriptionPlain":"Astrocade is an AI technology company building super-intelligence for the interactive world, delivered through a breakout consumer platform.\n\nToday's 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. We're further ahead than anyone: the only team building the intelligence and the platform together, and both are already live.\n\nOur social UGC platform lets anyone create and play interactive experiences through natural language. And it's 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.\n\nWe are a small team from Google Research, Meta, FAIR, Character.ai http://Character.ai, 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.\n\nThe next foundational AI company will be built where world models meet a billion players. We're 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.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nGrowth at Astrocade is not a single funnel - it is two sides of a platform that have to grow together. Creators need a reason to build here. Players need a reason to stay. As our product growth hire, you will help own the strategy, experimentation, and analytics foundation that helps both sides move, while developing a deep understanding of user behavior, motivations, and friction points across the ecosystem. This role sits at the intersection of product, data, design, and engineering, turning insight into action for creators and players alike.\n\nThis is a hands-on IC role with a clear path to more ownership as we scale. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and grow. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every single qualification, we’d still love to hear from you.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL DO\n\n - Own product growth across acquisition, activation, engagement, retention, and expansion for both creators and players\n\n - Identify the highest-leverage opportunities across creator and player funnels, and prioritize ruthlessly. Finding the right balance between the priorities of both players and creators and when making product decisions.\n\n - Build a deep understanding of users through data, experiments, feedback, and direct observation\n\n - Think in systems: evaluate how growth decisions affect different users, surfaces, and loops, and flag unintended consequences before shipping\n\n - Run rigorous experiments and turn insights into shipped product improvements\n\n - Partner with engineering and design to build onboarding, discovery, viral, and activation experiences\n\n - Improve the creator journey from first visit to first published game, reducing friction and accelerating time-to-value\n\n - Define core metrics, communicate the why behind recommendations, and document decisions and learnings clearly\n\n - Use and own agentic tools to automate workflows, uncover insights, and scale what works \n \n\n\nYOU'D BE A GREAT FIT IF YOU:\n\n - Have a strong track record of shipping experiments, features, or systems that moved key metrics such as activation, retention, engagement, or conversion\n\n - Are deeply curious about users and can combine data with judgment, direct user understanding, and product sense\n\n - Are highly fluent in data and analytics: comfortable with product analytics tools, experiment design, and translating ambiguous behavior into actionable insight\n\n - Have strong product sense - you can spot high-leverage opportunities, scope tight MVPs, and ship without overthinking\n\n - Thrive in ambiguity and are energized by building from zero rather than optimizing what already exists\n\n - Communicate clearly and document exceptionally well - you can explain the “why,” define the goal, outline tradeoffs, and leave behind recommendations that cross-functional partners can execute against independently\n\n - Are a strong cross-functional collaborator - you've worked closely with engineering, design, marketing, and data teams\n\n - Want to grow into a team leadership role as the growth function scales\n\n\n\n\nBONUS POINTS\n\n - Experience growing a two-sided marketplace, creator platform, or consumer social product\n\n - 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Today's 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. We're 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 it's 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, Character.ai, 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. We're 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.
We're building a two-sided platform: creators who make games, and players who discover and play them. Growth touches both sides. As Head of Growth Marketing, you'll own the strategy and execution that drives both creator acquisition and player growth - from paid media and SEO to PR and social. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role. You won't manage a team on day one, but you'll build one. The person who excels here sees the full funnel, moves fast, and knows which levers actually matter. Heavy use of agentic tools to automate most of the work is necessary for this role.
This is a hands-on IC role with a clear path to more ownership as we scale. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and grow. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every single qualification, we’d still love to hear from you.
Build and scale the systems that bring new creators onto the platform — people who want to make and share games
Develop creator-facing campaigns across paid social, SEO, and organic channels
Own the creator funnel from awareness through first game published
Partner with the product team to surface creator milestones and wins that drive word-of-mouth
Drive player acquisition and engagement across all channels
Own paid media strategy and execution (social, search, programmatic)
Use data to identify where players drop off and run experiments to fix it
Build agentic tools to automate most of the work is necessary for this role.
Run ads: strategy, creative briefing, buying, and optimization across Meta, TikTok, Google, and emerging platforms. Use agentic tools to fully automate these processes.
PR: build Astrocade's presence in gaming, tech, and creator economy media
Social: develop an organic social strategy that reflects Astrocade's brand and grows both creator and player audiences
SEO: own keyword strategy and content infrastructure that drives long-term organic growth
Have 5-8 years in growth marketing, with meaningful time in consumer products
Experience building scalable agentic tools to automate
Understand how to grow both sides of a two-sided platform, or have scaled creator and user communities simultaneously
Think in systems: you build repeatable programs, not one-off campaigns
Are comfortable being the only growth person on the team — scrappy, resourceful, and self-directed
Have strong analytical instincts and can build a dashboard as easily as you can write a creative brief
Want to grow into a team leadership role as the company scales
Experience at a high-growth consumer platform (YouTube, TikTok, Roblox, Twitch, or similar)
Background in UGC products
Experience building a growth function from scratch at an early-stage company
Familiarity with both B2C acquisition and community-led growth models
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 $1,500/month childcare benefit.
$2,000 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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We're 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.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nWe're building a two-sided platform: creators who make games, and players who discover and play them. Growth touches both sides. As Head of Growth Marketing, you'll own the strategy and execution that drives both creator acquisition and player growth - from paid media and SEO to PR and social. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role. You won't manage a team on day one, but you'll build one. The person who excels here sees the full funnel, moves fast, and knows which levers actually matter. Heavy use of agentic tools to automate most of the work is necessary for this role.\n\nThis is a hands-on IC role with a clear path to more ownership as we scale. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and grow. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every single qualification, we’d still love to hear from you.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL DO\n\n\n\n\nCREATOR ACQUISITION\n\n - Build and scale the systems that bring new creators onto the platform — people who want to make and share games\n\n - Develop creator-facing campaigns across paid social, SEO, and organic channels\n\n - Own the creator funnel from awareness through first game published\n\n - Partner with the product team to surface creator milestones and wins that drive word-of-mouth\n\n\nPLAYER GROWTH\n\n - Drive player acquisition and engagement across all channels\n\n - Own paid media strategy and execution (social, search, programmatic)\n\n - Use data to identify where players drop off and run experiments to fix it\n\n\nOWNERSHIP\n\n - Build agentic tools to automate most of the work is necessary for this role.\n\n - Run ads: strategy, creative briefing, buying, and optimization across Meta, TikTok, Google, and emerging platforms. Use agentic tools to fully automate these processes.\n\n - PR: build Astrocade's presence in gaming, tech, and creator economy media\n\n - Social: develop an organic social strategy that reflects Astrocade's brand and grows both creator and player audiences\n\n - SEO: own keyword strategy and content infrastructure that drives long-term organic growth\n\n\n\n\nYOU'D BE A GREAT FIT IF YOU:\n\n - Have 5-8 years in growth marketing, with meaningful time in consumer products\n\n - Experience building scalable agentic tools to automate\n\n - Understand how to grow both sides of a two-sided platform, or have scaled creator and user communities simultaneously\n\n - Think in systems: you build repeatable programs, not one-off campaigns\n\n - Are comfortable being the only growth person on the team — scrappy, resourceful, and self-directed\n\n - Have strong analytical instincts and can build a dashboard as easily as you can write a creative brief\n\n - Want to grow into a team leadership role as the company scales\n\n\n\n\nBONUS POINTS\n\n - Experience at a high-growth consumer platform (YouTube, TikTok, Roblox, Twitch, or similar)\n\n - Background in UGC products\n\n - Experience building a growth function from scratch at an early-stage company\n\n - Familiarity with both B2C acquisition and community-led growth models\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE OFFER\n\n - Competitive salary, meaningful equity, and performance bonus.\n\n - 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and eligible dependents.\n\n - Flexible PTO and unlimited sick time.\n\n - $650/month AI Tools budget to use on the tools that help you do your best work.\n\n - $500/month Lifestyle Benefit for wellness, fitness, meals, house cleaning, and more.\n\n - $200/month Fun Benefit to spend on hobbies, travel, games, concerts, or whatever brings you joy.\n\n - Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave for birth parents and 12 weeks for non-birth parents, plus a $1,500/month childcare benefit.\n\n - $2,000 workspace setup allowance and $200/month commuter benefit.\n\n - Daily breakfast, lunch, and dinner on in-office days, plus regular team events and offsites.\n\n - 401(k) retirement plan through Human Interest.\n \n\n\n\nJoin us to help build the future of interactive entertainment!","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":"$165K – $200K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus","scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":"$165K - $200K","compensationTiers":[{"id":"f973e8b8-b050-4e11-ae9a-867b78bba357","tierSummary":"Estimated Base Salary $165K – $200K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus","title":null,"additionalInformation":null,"components":[{"id":"57e93c18-54fc-4423-8b51-b1dd05b0f30e","summary":"Offers Equity","compensationType":"EquityPercentage","interval":"NONE","currencyCode":null,"minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"id":"f2c43c12-59ad-4a86-a31e-dcd046beecd2","summary":"Offers Bonus","compensationType":"Bonus","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"id":"a8c07624-7357-4be2-806d-d68329001f2e","summary":"Estimated Base Salary $165K – $200K","compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":165000,"maxValue":200000}]}],"summaryComponents":[{"compensationType":"EquityPercentage","interval":"NONE","currencyCode":null,"minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"compensationType":"Bonus","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":165000,"maxValue":200000}]}},{"id":"d63b36bc-2ef0-4512-8abc-b31435496607","title":"Member of Technical Staff (RecSys)","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Palo Alto","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":true,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-06-18T00:37:40.098+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"postalCode":"94301","addressRegion":"California","streetAddress":"300 Hamilton Ave","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Palo Alto"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/astrocade/d63b36bc-2ef0-4512-8abc-b31435496607","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/astrocade/d63b36bc-2ef0-4512-8abc-b31435496607/application","descriptionHtml":"Astrocade is an AI technology company building super-intelligence for the interactive world, delivered through a breakout consumer platform.
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Our social UGC platform lets anyone create and play interactive experiences through natural language. And it's 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, Character.ai, 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. We're 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.
About the Role
Our recommendation system doesn't exist yet, and it needs to. We have a large and fast-growing catalog of games, millions of users, and new content being created every day. What you show someone, and when, is the difference between a session that lasts two minutes and one that lasts two hours. As our RecSys founding member, you'll own this problem end-to-end - set the architecture, build the foundation, and grow it from rule-based systems to deep learning. The decisions made now will shape how discovery works on the platform for years.
You'll report to the CTO, and work directly with the co-founders. This is a 0 to 1 build with full ownership.
What You'll Do
Design and build the systems that decide which games surface to which players, from candidate retrieval through final ranking
Own the full data pipeline - ingestion, feature engineering, training data construction, and low-latency serving
Build personalization systems and models that adapt to user behavior, preferences, and context over time
Build eval infrastructure to measure recommendation quality: offline metrics, online experiments, and business outcomes
Run A/B tests and translate results into concrete system improvements
Instrument the recommendation stack deeply so the team can move fast with confidence
You'd Be a Great Fit If You:
Have 4-7+ years of experience in recommendation systems, ML engineering, or applied ML in a consumer context
Have built ranking or personalization systems end-to-end - feeds, video, gaming, or similar
Experience running recommendation evals end-to-end (offline + online)
Understand the full stack - data pipelines, feature stores, model training, and serving
Are comfortable making architectural decisions on a greenfield system without much scaffolding
Are self-directed and energized by ownership, not just execution
Bonus Points
Experience at companies with large-scale consumer recommendation systems (YouTube, Netflix, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter/X)
Familiarity with both rule-based and deep learning approaches, and when to use each
Background in UGC or creator platforms where content is high-volume and fast-changing
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 $1,500/month childcare benefit.
$2,000 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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We're 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.\n\nAbout the Role \n\nOur recommendation system doesn't exist yet, and it needs to. We have a large and fast-growing catalog of games, millions of users, and new content being created every day. What you show someone, and when, is the difference between a session that lasts two minutes and one that lasts two hours. As our RecSys founding member, you'll own this problem end-to-end - set the architecture, build the foundation, and grow it from rule-based systems to deep learning. The decisions made now will shape how discovery works on the platform for years.\n\nYou'll report to the CTO, and work directly with the co-founders. This is a 0 to 1 build with full ownership.\n\n\n\nWhat You'll Do\n\n - Design and build the systems that decide which games surface to which players, from candidate retrieval through final ranking\n\n - Own the full data pipeline - ingestion, feature engineering, training data construction, and low-latency serving\n\n - Build personalization systems and models that adapt to user behavior, preferences, and context over time\n\n - Build eval infrastructure to measure recommendation quality: offline metrics, online experiments, and business outcomes\n\n - Run A/B tests and translate results into concrete system improvements\n\n - Instrument the recommendation stack deeply so the team can move fast with confidence\n\nYou'd Be a Great Fit If You:\n\n - Have 4-7+ years of experience in recommendation systems, ML engineering, or applied ML in a consumer context\n\n - Have built ranking or personalization systems end-to-end - feeds, video, gaming, or similar\n\n - Experience running recommendation evals end-to-end (offline + online)\n\n - Understand the full stack - data pipelines, feature stores, model training, and serving\n\n - Are comfortable making architectural decisions on a greenfield system without much scaffolding\n\n - Are self-directed and energized by ownership, not just execution\n\nBonus Points\n\n - Experience at companies with large-scale consumer recommendation systems (YouTube, Netflix, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter/X)\n\n - Familiarity with both rule-based and deep learning approaches, and when to use each\n\n - Background in UGC or creator platforms where content is high-volume and fast-changing\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE OFFER\n\n - Competitive salary, meaningful equity, and performance bonus.\n\n - 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and eligible dependents.\n\n - Flexible PTO and unlimited sick time.\n\n - $650/month AI Tools budget to use on the tools that help you do your best work.\n\n - $500/month Lifestyle Benefit for wellness, fitness, meals, house cleaning, and more.\n\n - $200/month Fun Benefit to spend on hobbies, travel, games, concerts, or whatever brings you joy.\n\n - Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave for birth parents and 12 weeks for non-birth parents, plus a $1,500/month childcare benefit.\n\n - $2,000 workspace setup allowance and $200/month commuter benefit.\n\n - Daily breakfast, lunch, and dinner on in-office days, plus regular team events and offsites.\n\n - 401(k) retirement plan through Human Interest.\n \n\n\n\nJoin us to help build the future of interactive entertainment!","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":"$200K – $300K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus","scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":"$200K - $300K","compensationTiers":[{"id":"67d48d73-0161-4d83-b870-8c26f2e69694","tierSummary":"Estimated Base Salary $200K – $300K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus","title":"Tier 1","additionalInformation":null,"components":[{"id":"4f68fe1d-3d6c-4732-bd37-87a36e72a600","summary":"Offers Equity","compensationType":"EquityPercentage","interval":"NONE","currencyCode":null,"minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"id":"fbe2162f-819a-4c28-a28f-e01782c9b7c7","summary":"Offers Bonus","compensationType":"Bonus","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"id":"72f2c60a-245c-4ace-8755-bd367a6ec0d9","summary":"Estimated Base Salary $200K – $300K","compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":200000,"maxValue":300000}]}],"summaryComponents":[{"compensationType":"EquityPercentage","interval":"NONE","currencyCode":null,"minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"compensationType":"Bonus","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":200000,"maxValue":300000}]}},{"id":"346f49e2-f528-41d8-80f8-f5ab6e952ad0","title":"Founding Technical Recruiter","department":"People ","team":"People ","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Palo Alto","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":true,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-07-13T19:38:55.185+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"postalCode":"94301","addressRegion":"California","streetAddress":"300 Hamilton Ave","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Palo Alto"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/astrocade/346f49e2-f528-41d8-80f8-f5ab6e952ad0","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/astrocade/346f49e2-f528-41d8-80f8-f5ab6e952ad0/application","descriptionHtml":"Astrocade is an AI technology company building super-intelligence for the interactive world, delivered through a breakout consumer platform.
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Our social UGC platform lets anyone create and play interactive experiences through natural language. And it's 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, Character.ai, 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. We're 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.
About the Role
We’re looking for our Founding Technical Recruiter to help build one of the strongest engineering teams in AI.
You’ll partner directly with founders and engineering leaders to hire exceptional engineers across infrastructure, AI/ML, recommendation systems, data, and platform engineering. This is a full-cycle recruiting role, but sourcing is the heart of the job. You’ll spend your time identifying talent others miss, building relationships with world-class engineers, and helping us win competitive searches.
Beyond recruiting, you’ll become an expert on the AI talent landscape—mapping companies, researching technical organizations, and developing the market intelligence that shapes our hiring strategy.
Own full-cycle recruiting for technical roles from sourcing through offer close
Build outbound pipelines for exceptional engineering talent
Partner closely with founders and hiring managers on hiring strategy
Research companies, technical teams, and talent markets to identify high-impact candidates
Build competitive talent maps and hiring intelligence to inform recruiting strategy
Deliver an exceptional candidate experience throughout the hiring process
Continuously improve recruiting workflows using AI and automation where it creates leverage
Have 3–10 years of experience recruiting technical talent
Have experience sourcing and closing senior software engineers at startups or leading technology companies
Can confidently evaluate technical backgrounds across infrastructure, distributed systems, AI/ML, recommendation systems, backend, and platform engineering
Love outbound recruiting and proactively building relationships with exceptional talent
Are highly competitive, move with urgency, and enjoy solving difficult hiring problems
Are an exceptional communicator who earns trust with both candidates and hiring managers
Take ownership and thrive in a high-expectation, early-stage environment
Experience recruiting for AI, ML, recommendation systems, or infrastructure engineering teams
Experience building market maps, competitive intelligence, and talent research from scratch
Strong understanding of modern AI tools and how they can improve recruiting workflows
Experience hiring engineers from companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, xAI, Roblox, TikTok, or other leading AI and consumer technology companies
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 $1,500/month childcare benefit.
$2,000 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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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.\n\nWe are a small team from Google Research, Meta, FAIR, Character.ai http://Character.ai, 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.\n\nThe next foundational AI company will be built where world models meet a billion players. We're 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.\n\nAbout the Role \n\nWe’re looking for our Founding Technical Recruiter to help build one of the strongest engineering teams in AI.\n\nYou’ll partner directly with founders and engineering leaders to hire exceptional engineers across infrastructure, AI/ML, recommendation systems, data, and platform engineering. This is a full-cycle recruiting role, but sourcing is the heart of the job. You’ll spend your time identifying talent others miss, building relationships with world-class engineers, and helping us win competitive searches.\n\nBeyond recruiting, you’ll become an expert on the AI talent landscape—mapping companies, researching technical organizations, and developing the market intelligence that shapes our hiring strategy.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU’LL DO\n\n - Own full-cycle recruiting for technical roles from sourcing through offer close\n\n - Build outbound pipelines for exceptional engineering talent\n\n - Partner closely with founders and hiring managers on hiring strategy\n\n - Research companies, technical teams, and talent markets to identify high-impact candidates\n\n - Build competitive talent maps and hiring intelligence to inform recruiting strategy\n\n - Deliver an exceptional candidate experience throughout the hiring process\n\n - Continuously improve recruiting workflows using AI and automation where it creates leverage\n\n\nYOU’D BE A GREAT FIT IF YOU\n\n - Have 3–10 years of experience recruiting technical talent\n\n - Have experience sourcing and closing senior software engineers at startups or leading technology companies\n\n - Can confidently evaluate technical backgrounds across infrastructure, distributed systems, AI/ML, recommendation systems, backend, and platform engineering\n\n - Love outbound recruiting and proactively building relationships with exceptional talent\n\n - Are highly competitive, move with urgency, and enjoy solving difficult hiring problems\n\n - Are an exceptional communicator who earns trust with both candidates and hiring managers\n\n - Take ownership and thrive in a high-expectation, early-stage environment\n\n\nBONUS POINTS\n\n - Experience recruiting for AI, ML, recommendation systems, or infrastructure engineering teams\n\n - Experience building market maps, competitive intelligence, and talent research from scratch\n\n - Strong understanding of modern AI tools and how they can improve recruiting workflows\n\n - Experience hiring engineers from companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, xAI, Roblox, TikTok, or other leading AI and consumer technology companies\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE OFFER\n\n - Competitive salary, meaningful equity, and performance bonus.\n\n - 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and eligible dependents.\n\n - Flexible PTO and unlimited sick time.\n\n - $650/month AI Tools budget to use on the tools that help you do your best work.\n\n - $500/month Lifestyle Benefit for wellness, fitness, meals, house cleaning, and more.\n\n - $200/month Fun Benefit to spend on hobbies, travel, games, concerts, or whatever brings you joy.\n\n - Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave for birth parents and 12 weeks for non-birth parents, plus a $1,500/month childcare benefit.\n\n - $2,000 workspace setup allowance and $200/month commuter benefit.\n\n - Daily breakfast, lunch, and dinner on in-office days, plus regular team events and offsites.\n\n - 401(k) retirement plan through Human Interest.\n \n\n\n\nJoin us to help build the future of interactive entertainment!","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":"$150K – $200K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus","scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":"$150K - $200K","compensationTiers":[{"id":"5d75a72a-4a8f-4de1-b6a9-b9ebe47209bb","tierSummary":"$150K – $200K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus","title":null,"additionalInformation":null,"components":[{"id":"981e2e43-f1c9-486d-b141-abae16387457","summary":"$150K – $200K","compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":150000,"maxValue":200000},{"id":"3fcf2cef-6e99-4a43-a937-f3ff68c9af7c","summary":"Offers Equity","compensationType":"EquityPercentage","interval":"NONE","currencyCode":null,"minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"id":"644829e1-6e4a-4d24-a7c7-8c7b9d27d4c7","summary":"Offers Bonus","compensationType":"Bonus","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null}]}],"summaryComponents":[{"compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":150000,"maxValue":200000},{"compensationType":"EquityPercentage","interval":"NONE","currencyCode":null,"minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"compensationType":"Bonus","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null}]}},{"id":"2d1ba404-fb8a-4484-8d97-b83aea7b867e","title":"Don't see your role? 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Our social UGC platform lets anyone create and play interactive experiences through natural language. And it's 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, Character.ai, 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. We're 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.
We’re always looking for exceptional people.
If you’re excited about Astrocade’s mission but don’t see a role that matches your background today, we’d still love to hear from you.
We’re building the future of interactive entertainment with a small, high-performing team that moves quickly, solves hard problems, and cares deeply about creating magical experiences for millions of players and creators.
Whether you’re an engineer, designer, product thinker, researcher, marketer, operator, or someone whose skills don’t fit neatly into a traditional job title, don’t let the absence of an open role stop you from reaching out.
When you apply, tell us:
What kind of role you’re interested in
Why Astrocade excites you
Something you’ve built, shipped, or accomplished that you’re especially proud of
We’ll review every application and reach out if we believe there’s a strong fit—whether that’s for a current opening or one we’re planning to hire for in the future.
We can’t wait to meet you.
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 $1,500/month childcare benefit.
$2,000 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!
","descriptionPlain":"Astrocade is an AI technology company building super-intelligence for the interactive world, delivered through a breakout consumer platform.\n\nToday's 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. We're further ahead than anyone: the only team building the intelligence and the platform together, and both are already live.\n\nOur social UGC platform lets anyone create and play interactive experiences through natural language. And it's one of the fastest-growing consumer products in the world, with over 30 million users in just months since launch. 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We're 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.\n\n\nDON’T SEE YOUR ROLE?\n\n\n\nWe’re always looking for exceptional people.\n\nIf you’re excited about Astrocade’s mission but don’t see a role that matches your background today, we’d still love to hear from you.\n\nWe’re building the future of interactive entertainment with a small, high-performing team that moves quickly, solves hard problems, and cares deeply about creating magical experiences for millions of players and creators.\n\nWhether you’re an engineer, designer, product thinker, researcher, marketer, operator, or someone whose skills don’t fit neatly into a traditional job title, don’t let the absence of an open role stop you from reaching out.\n\nWhen you apply, tell us:\n\n - What kind of role you’re interested in\n\n - Why Astrocade excites you\n\n - Something you’ve built, shipped, or accomplished that you’re especially proud of\n\nWe’ll review every application and reach out if we believe there’s a strong fit—whether that’s for a current opening or one we’re planning to hire for in the future.\n\n\n\nWe can’t wait to meet you.\n\n\nWHAT WE OFFER\n\n - Competitive salary, meaningful equity, and performance bonus.\n\n - 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and eligible dependents.\n\n - Flexible PTO and unlimited sick time.\n\n - $650/month AI Tools budget to use on the tools that help you do your best work.\n\n - $500/month Lifestyle Benefit for wellness, fitness, meals, house cleaning, and more.\n\n - $200/month Fun Benefit to spend on hobbies, travel, games, concerts, or whatever brings you joy.\n\n - Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave for birth parents and 12 weeks for non-birth parents, plus a $1,500/month childcare benefit.\n\n - $2,000 workspace setup allowance and $200/month commuter benefit.\n\n - Daily breakfast, lunch, and dinner on in-office days, plus regular team events and offsites.\n\n - 401(k) retirement plan through Human Interest.\n \n\n\n\nJoin us to help build the future of interactive entertainment!","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":"$75K – $300K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus","scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":"$75K - $300K","compensationTiers":[{"id":"6ec8641b-23b7-4e96-9fe5-3a37a5ad4f60","tierSummary":"$75K – $300K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus","title":null,"additionalInformation":null,"components":[{"id":"a00136fa-504b-466c-92fe-a63a64461cc8","summary":"$75K – $300K","compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":75000,"maxValue":300000},{"id":"957d368a-2047-4ee2-8d76-df099b723905","summary":"Offers Equity","compensationType":"EquityPercentage","interval":"NONE","currencyCode":null,"minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"id":"2f8b9ea6-a674-4396-82b2-0df993229a43","summary":"Offers Bonus","compensationType":"Bonus","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null}]}],"summaryComponents":[{"compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":75000,"maxValue":300000},{"compensationType":"EquityPercentage","interval":"NONE","currencyCode":null,"minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"compensationType":"Bonus","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null}]}},{"id":"35a698e6-54cd-4bdb-b124-432e4f512889","title":"Growth","department":"Growth","team":"Growth","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Palo Alto","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":true,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-07-16T16:30:27.683+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"postalCode":"94301","addressRegion":"California","streetAddress":"300 Hamilton Ave","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Palo Alto"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/astrocade/35a698e6-54cd-4bdb-b124-432e4f512889","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/astrocade/35a698e6-54cd-4bdb-b124-432e4f512889/application","descriptionHtml":"Astrocade is an AI technology company building super-intelligence for the interactive world, delivered through a breakout consumer platform.
Today's 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. We're 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 it's 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, Character.ai, 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. We're 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.
Astrocade is building a new category of interactive entertainment, and our growth will come from finding the formats, creators, and distribution loops that bring millions of players into the ecosystem.
Growth owns our player and creator acquisition engine. You'll build the content strategies, creator programs, and growth experiments that introduce new audiences to Astrocade and turn curiosity into engagement. You'll identify what makes people stop scrolling, create, play, and share, then turn those insights into repeatable acquisition channels.
This role sits at the intersection of growth, content, and the creator economy. You'll move quickly, test relentlessly, and use data to understand what works and what doesn't.
Own player and creator acquisition through organic growth channels - build the strategies, experiments, and systems that bring new players to Astrocade and turn players into creators.
Discover repeatable growth formats through content experimentation - ideate, create, and test short-form content across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. Explore gameplay, memes, AI-generated content, creator stories, and new formats to find what drives people to watch, share, and play.
Create and scale content that drives acquisition - develop content yourself using phone-native tools and AI workflows, turning winning concepts into repeatable formats that grow Astrocade’s audience and player base.
Build creator acquisition loops - identify, recruit, and support creators who can make compelling Astrocade games. Develop programs, incentives, and feedback loops that encourage creators to join, build, and bring new audiences into the ecosystem.
Run growth experiments with a data-driven mindset - measure performance, analyze results, and continuously iterate on creative, distribution, and acquisition strategies to find what works.
Turn community insights into growth opportunities - use player and creator feedback, comments, and behavior patterns to identify new content ideas, product opportunities, and ways to strengthen the Astrocade ecosystem.
Are early in your career (new grad or early-career) and excited to own a meaningful growth channel end-to-end.
Have demonstrated an ability to grow an audience, community, or product through content, whether through your own projects, a brand, or previous work.
Have strong intuition for why content works - you understand hooks, retention, audience psychology, distribution, and what makes people stop, watch, share, and act.
Are comfortable creating content yourself, moving quickly from idea → production → testing using phone-native tools and emerging AI workflows.
Are excited by experimentation and ambiguity - you enjoy running tests, learning from failures, and using data to determine what works.
Are scrappy, high-output, and self-directed. You do not need a playbook to get started, and you are comfortable iterating until you find something that works.
Are interested in the creator economy and excited about helping creators build new types of games and experiences on Astrocade.
Have experience running creator programs, UGC campaigns, or community-led growth initiatives.
Love games and interactive entertainment, but understand that the biggest audiences are often people who do not consider themselves gamers.
Have experience analyzing growth metrics and using data to improve creative decisions, with additional skills in design, editing, or motion graphics.
Have grown an audience, product, or community at a mobile game, consumer app, entertainment company, or creator-economy startup.
Have strong instincts for internet culture and emerging content formats, and can spot trends before they become mainstream.
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 $1,500/month childcare benefit.
$2,000 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!
","descriptionPlain":"Astrocade is an AI technology company building super-intelligence for the interactive world, delivered through a breakout consumer platform.\n\nToday's 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. We're further ahead than anyone: the only team building the intelligence and the platform together, and both are already live.\n\nOur social UGC platform lets anyone create and play interactive experiences through natural language. And it's 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.\n\nWe are a small team from Google Research, Meta, FAIR, Character.ai http://Character.ai, 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.\n\nThe next foundational AI company will be built where world models meet a billion players. We're 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.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nAstrocade is building a new category of interactive entertainment, and our growth will come from finding the formats, creators, and distribution loops that bring millions of players into the ecosystem.\n\nGrowth owns our player and creator acquisition engine. You'll build the content strategies, creator programs, and growth experiments that introduce new audiences to Astrocade and turn curiosity into engagement. You'll identify what makes people stop scrolling, create, play, and share, then turn those insights into repeatable acquisition channels.\n\nThis role sits at the intersection of growth, content, and the creator economy. You'll move quickly, test relentlessly, and use data to understand what works and what doesn't.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL DO\n\n - Own player and creator acquisition through organic growth channels - build the strategies, experiments, and systems that bring new players to Astrocade and turn players into creators.\n\n - Discover repeatable growth formats through content experimentation - ideate, create, and test short-form content across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. Explore gameplay, memes, AI-generated content, creator stories, and new formats to find what drives people to watch, share, and play.\n\n - Create and scale content that drives acquisition - develop content yourself using phone-native tools and AI workflows, turning winning concepts into repeatable formats that grow Astrocade’s audience and player base.\n\n - Build creator acquisition loops - identify, recruit, and support creators who can make compelling Astrocade games. Develop programs, incentives, and feedback loops that encourage creators to join, build, and bring new audiences into the ecosystem.\n\n - Run growth experiments with a data-driven mindset - measure performance, analyze results, and continuously iterate on creative, distribution, and acquisition strategies to find what works.\n\n - Turn community insights into growth opportunities - use player and creator feedback, comments, and behavior patterns to identify new content ideas, product opportunities, and ways to strengthen the Astrocade ecosystem.\n \n \n\n\nYOU'D BE A GREAT FIT IF YOU:\n\n - Are early in your career (new grad or early-career) and excited to own a meaningful growth channel end-to-end.\n\n - Have demonstrated an ability to grow an audience, community, or product through content, whether through your own projects, a brand, or previous work.\n\n - Have strong intuition for why content works - you understand hooks, retention, audience psychology, distribution, and what makes people stop, watch, share, and act.\n\n - Are comfortable creating content yourself, moving quickly from idea → production → testing using phone-native tools and emerging AI workflows.\n\n - Are excited by experimentation and ambiguity - you enjoy running tests, learning from failures, and using data to determine what works.\n\n - Are scrappy, high-output, and self-directed. You do not need a playbook to get started, and you are comfortable iterating until you find something that works.\n\n - Are interested in the creator economy and excited about helping creators build new types of games and experiences on Astrocade.\n\n\n\n\nBONUS POINTS\n\n - Have experience running creator programs, UGC campaigns, or community-led growth initiatives.\n\n - Love games and interactive entertainment, but understand that the biggest audiences are often people who do not consider themselves gamers.\n\n - Have experience analyzing growth metrics and using data to improve creative decisions, with additional skills in design, editing, or motion graphics.\n\n - Have grown an audience, product, or community at a mobile game, consumer app, entertainment company, or creator-economy startup.\n\n - Have strong instincts for internet culture and emerging content formats, and can spot trends before they become mainstream.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE OFFER\n\n - Competitive salary, meaningful equity, and performance bonus.\n\n - 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and eligible dependents.\n\n - Flexible PTO and unlimited sick time.\n\n - $650/month AI Tools budget to use on the tools that help you do your best work.\n\n - $500/month Lifestyle Benefit for wellness, fitness, meals, house cleaning, and more.\n\n - $200/month Fun Benefit to spend on hobbies, travel, games, concerts, or whatever brings you joy.\n\n - Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave for birth parents and 12 weeks for non-birth parents, plus a $1,500/month childcare benefit.\n\n - $2,000 workspace setup allowance and $200/month commuter benefit.\n\n - Daily breakfast, lunch, and dinner on in-office days, plus regular team events and offsites.\n\n - 401(k) retirement plan through Human Interest.\n \n\n\n\nJoin us to help build the future of interactive entertainment!","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":"$100K – $150K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus","scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":"$100K - $150K","compensationTiers":[{"id":"c6773ae2-0210-41f7-b820-f1cd55e6d81d","tierSummary":"$100K – $150K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus","title":null,"additionalInformation":null,"components":[{"id":"1dfe285a-147a-4116-97d1-35559f0123cb","summary":"Offers Equity","compensationType":"EquityPercentage","interval":"NONE","currencyCode":null,"minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"id":"b78779a1-7c17-48ce-a370-744fe57377c9","summary":"Offers Bonus","compensationType":"Bonus","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"id":"e10b35db-cb31-4e17-b5d6-ee1124b288f9","summary":"$100K – $150K","compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":100000,"maxValue":150000}]}],"summaryComponents":[{"compensationType":"EquityPercentage","interval":"NONE","currencyCode":null,"minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"compensationType":"Bonus","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":100000,"maxValue":150000}]}},{"id":"ca985707-1143-436e-a081-fb6c3e1fd8b0","title":"Product Engineer","department":"Engineering","team":"Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"Palo Alto","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":true,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-08-22T00:57:32.474+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":true,"workplaceType":"Hybrid","address":{"postalAddress":{"postalCode":"94301","addressRegion":"California","streetAddress":"300 Hamilton Ave","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"Palo Alto"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/astrocade/ca985707-1143-436e-a081-fb6c3e1fd8b0","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/astrocade/ca985707-1143-436e-a081-fb6c3e1fd8b0/application","descriptionHtml":"Astrocade is an AI technology company building super-intelligence for the interactive world, delivered through a breakout consumer platform.
Today's 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. We're 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 it's 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, Character.ai, 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. We're 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 best consumer products aren't built by handing specs across a wall, they're built by people who own the problem end-to-end. As a Product Engineer, you'll be that person: part builder, part product manager, fully accountable for outcomes. Astrocade is two sides of a platform that have to grow together: creators need a reason to build here and players need a reason to stay. You'll find the friction on both sides, decide what to build, ship it with your own hands, and measure whether it worked. This is a hands-on IC role with a clear path to more ownership as we scale. If you're excited about this role but don't meet every single qualification, we'd still love to hear from you.
Build multi-platform features and user journeys end-to-end in React and TypeScript, from prototype to production
Develop and improve core frontend architecture for web and mobile, from the game feed to our creator experience
Design, run, and interpret A/B tests at real consumer scale (tens of millions of users)
Spend time diving into funnels and data around acquisition, activation, engagement and retention for both creators and players, and and turn analytics into hypotheses, experiments, and shipped improvements
Think in systems: understand how a change to one surface ripples through creator and player loops, and catch unintended consequences before they ship
Use and build agentic tools to automate your own workflows, uncover insights, and scale what works
Shape product strategy with data-backed conviction and collaborate with a diverse set of colleagues to make Astrocade better
Have 2+ years of engineering experience on products that serve many stakeholders, with real ownership of product outcomes
Have worked in either React or React Native and are comfortable building large features independently
Are fluent with product analytics - funnels, cohorts, retention curves, experiment design - and tools like Amplitude, Mixpanel, or custom SQL queries
Enjoy digging into data to understand user behavior
Have carried projects from ambiguous idea to measured impact, end-to-end
Communicate and document clearly: you can explain the why, lay out the tradeoffs, and leave behind decisions and learnings others can build on
Enjoy both product-thinking and solving hard engineering problems
Experience growing a two-sided marketplace, creator platform, or consumer social product
Familiarity with viral growth mechanics and community-led growth loops
Experience running growth or experimentation programs at a high-growth consumer company
Background in data science or a history of building your own analytics pipelines
Competitive base salary plus equity
Health, dental, and vision coverage
Lunch provided daily
4 days/week in-office
Join us to help build the future of interactive entertainment!
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 $1,500/month childcare benefit.
$2,000 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!
","descriptionPlain":"Astrocade is an AI technology company building super-intelligence for the interactive world, delivered through a breakout consumer platform.\n\nToday's 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. We're further ahead than anyone: the only team building the intelligence and the platform together, and both are already live.\n\nOur social UGC platform lets anyone create and play interactive experiences through natural language. And it's 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.\n\nWe are a small team from Google Research, Meta, FAIR, Character.ai http://Character.ai, 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.\n\nThe next foundational AI company will be built where world models meet a billion players. We're 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.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nThe best consumer products aren't built by handing specs across a wall, they're built by people who own the problem end-to-end. As a Product Engineer, you'll be that person: part builder, part product manager, fully accountable for outcomes. Astrocade is two sides of a platform that have to grow together: creators need a reason to build here and players need a reason to stay. You'll find the friction on both sides, decide what to build, ship it with your own hands, and measure whether it worked. This is a hands-on IC role with a clear path to more ownership as we scale. If you're excited about this role but don't meet every single qualification, we'd still love to hear from you.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU’LL DO\n\n - Build multi-platform features and user journeys end-to-end in React and TypeScript, from prototype to production\n\n - Develop and improve core frontend architecture for web and mobile, from the game feed to our creator experience\n\n - Design, run, and interpret A/B tests at real consumer scale (tens of millions of users)\n\n - Spend time diving into funnels and data around acquisition, activation, engagement and retention for both creators and players, and and turn analytics into hypotheses, experiments, and shipped improvements\n\n - Think in systems: understand how a change to one surface ripples through creator and player loops, and catch unintended consequences before they ship\n\n - Use and build agentic tools to automate your own workflows, uncover insights, and scale what works\n\n - Shape product strategy with data-backed conviction and collaborate with a diverse set of colleagues to make Astrocade better\n\n\n\n\nYOU’D BE A GREAT FIT IF YOU:\n\n - Have 2+ years of engineering experience on products that serve many stakeholders, with real ownership of product outcomes\n\n - Have worked in either React or React Native and are comfortable building large features independently\n\n - Are fluent with product analytics - funnels, cohorts, retention curves, experiment design - and tools like Amplitude, Mixpanel, or custom SQL queries\n\n - Enjoy digging into data to understand user behavior\n\n - Have carried projects from ambiguous idea to measured impact, end-to-end\n\n - Communicate and document clearly: you can explain the why, lay out the tradeoffs, and leave behind decisions and learnings others can build on\n\n - Enjoy both product-thinking and solving hard engineering problems\n \n \n\n\nBONUS POINTS:\n\n - Experience growing a two-sided marketplace, creator platform, or consumer social product\n\n - Familiarity with viral growth mechanics and community-led growth loops\n\n - Experience running growth or experimentation programs at a high-growth consumer company\n\n - Background in data science or a history of building your own analytics pipelines\n\n\n\n\nCOMPENSATION & BENEFITS\n\n - Competitive base salary plus equity\n\n - Health, dental, and vision coverage\n\n - Lunch provided daily\n\n - 4 days/week in-office\n\n\n\nJoin us to help build the future of interactive entertainment!\n\n\nWHAT WE OFFER\n\n - Competitive salary, meaningful equity, and performance bonus.\n\n - 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and eligible dependents.\n\n - Flexible PTO and unlimited sick time.\n\n - $650/month AI Tools budget to use on the tools that help you do your best work.\n\n - $500/month Lifestyle Benefit for wellness, fitness, meals, house cleaning, and more.\n\n - $200/month Fun Benefit to spend on hobbies, travel, games, concerts, or whatever brings you joy.\n\n - Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave for birth parents and 12 weeks for non-birth parents, plus a $1,500/month childcare benefit.\n\n - $2,000 workspace setup allowance and $200/month commuter benefit.\n\n - Daily breakfast, lunch, and dinner on in-office days, plus regular team events and offsites.\n\n - 401(k) retirement plan through Human Interest.\n \n\n\n\nJoin us to help build the future of interactive entertainment!","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":"$160K – $220K • Offers Equity","scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":"$160K - $220K","compensationTiers":[{"id":"5cc327cc-85fe-4c10-9bdc-3cdd143b159d","tierSummary":"Estimated Base Salary $160K – $220K • Offers Equity","title":null,"additionalInformation":null,"components":[{"id":"43bfa9c7-3fea-47d8-acf2-139247bb5954","summary":"Offers Equity","compensationType":"EquityPercentage","interval":"NONE","currencyCode":null,"minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"id":"0a82e90d-2e29-40d7-bbb6-ad8ac6cdca62","summary":"Estimated Base Salary $160K – $220K","compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":160000,"maxValue":220000}]}],"summaryComponents":[{"compensationType":"EquityPercentage","interval":"NONE","currencyCode":null,"minValue":null,"maxValue":null},{"compensationType":"Salary","interval":"1 YEAR","currencyCode":"USD","minValue":160000,"maxValue":220000}]}}],"apiVersion":"1"}