Platform Engineer

Since founding earlier this year, we have

• Locked in 1,000+ gaming & livestream creators (100 K-10 M followers each) who will launch Roam games to an aggregate reach of 250 M+ fans.
• Assembled a 12 person applied AI team spanning ByteDance Seed, Nous Research, NASA (multi-agent workflows, diffusion model training), second-time technical founders, engineers that made 100+ games for Voodoo and Supersonic and built mobile apps from 0-2M DAUs.
• Raised an unannounced round from investors behind Google Deepmind, Bytedance, Anduril, Together AI and Polymarket, angels from OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Windsurf & large content creators.
• Acquired a consumer product studio with 11.5M+ downloads.

About the Role

You’ll work at the intersection of applied AI and large-scale platform engineering. Your focus will be on building and owning the core infrastructure, platforms, and toolchains that power our AI-driven generation tools. Our current engineering focus spans:

• Architect and automate self-serve developer platforms: build pipelines for LLM-powered game generation, asset integration, and production-ready toolchains.
• Design integrations across 3D engines, iOS/mobile, and cloud systems to speed up iteration and deployment.
• Instrument automated testing and feedback systems that learn from both self-play and user behavior, accelerating bug detection and product polish.
• Own new platform features end-to-end -from design to production, ensuring reliability, scalability, and developer usability.
• Quickly assess and refine Roam’s existing architecture, enforce clear service contracts, and eliminate deployment friction in your first week.

We’re looking for engineers who have

• Scaled AWS (Lambda, SQS, S3, EC2, IAM, DynamoDB), and multiplier backend infra.
• Deep fluency in sql, nosql, python.
• Significant experience in software engineering and in applied AI.
• Comfort with Vector DBs (Pinecone, OpenSearch) and semantic search systems.
• 1+ year full time experience at a hypergrowth startup.

Strong candidates may also have

• Training and finetuning diffusion and language models
• Work in research and robotics
• Experience with Game Development, 3D engines / Shaderlab

Compensation

• Base salary of $180,000 - $400,000, and 0.25% - 1% equity.
• Free housing, food, and transportation.
• Visa Sponsorship & relocation support.

Growth Opportunity

You’ll join a mission-driven team working at the frontier of AI world generation. We're HQ'd in SF and currently work 7 days a week. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to:

• Own Roam’s infrastructure, devops and training setups.
• Define new benchmarks for fun, retention, and interactive intelligence in 3D worlds using behavioral data across thousands of environments.
• Ship alongside a team that has already built products for 13M+ users, with 1000+ large creators ready to deploy our technology.

If you're excited to move fast, build at the edge of what's possible, and help define how AI inhabits 3D worlds, let's talk.