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Astrocade

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Palo Alto, California, United States

Location
Palo Alto, California, United States
Work
On-site
Employment
Full-time
Level
Not stated
Function
Engineering
Pay
$75K – $300K a year
Posted
4 months ago

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The top of this role’s range, $75K a year, is 69% below the median of $240K for engineering jobs in Palo Alto (middle half $190K – $300K, 422 jobs that state pay).

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About the role

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.

Don’t See Your Role?

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.

What we Offer

  • 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!

Source

Posted by Astrocade on their own hiring page, jobs.ashbyhq.com. OptiTalent shows it as published, read 07 Nov 2026 11:57 UTC; the original is the reference.

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