Research 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 Ex-Moonshot (post-training & agents, diffusion model training), second-time technical founders, engineers that made 100+ games for Voodoo, Supersonic, Sidemen and built mobile apps from 0-2M DAUs.
• Raised an unannounced round from investors behind Google Deepmind, Bytedance, Anduril, Together AI and Polymarket, angels from OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Deepmind, Cognition, & 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 systems, focusing on world generation pipelines, data-efficient training methods, and inference-time optimization for real-time generation. Your work will enable everyone make, play and monetize highly engaging games & 3D environments. Our current research spans:

• Distributed multi-agent orchestration systems for coordinated world synthesis, spanning terrain generation, asset population, and behavior trees
• Reinforcement learning pipelines for adaptive, open-ended game generation with hierarchical action spaces and dynamic difficulty adjustment
• Agentic codegen & diffusion-based tooling for creating studio quality simulated environments

We’re looking for engineers who have

• Strong software fundamentals and comfort switching between production systems and research
• Experience building or training large multimodal or agentic systems
• Familiarity with distributed training, data curation, or large-scale vision/3D pipelines at scale
• Bonus: Have worked on generative vision, world models, or RL systems.

Strong candidates may also have

• Experience training or fine-tuning diffusion or other generative vision models.
• Prior work in robotics, multi-agent systems, or simulation-based RL.
• Familiarity with game engines or 3D simulation frameworks as experimental testbeds.

Compensation

• Base salary of $200,000 - $350,000, + $165,750- $353,250 equity and benefits.
• 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 in an intense 996. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to:

• Own large parts of Roam’s core generation and simulation stack spanning from multimodal data pipelines to agent orchestration and engagement modeling.
• 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.