Applied AI/ML Engineer

Role Description

We’re looking for an Applied AI/Machine Learning Engineer to join our growing team. You'll play a principal role in designing and building AI assistants that empower people to use interactive 3D as a medium.

Location: Preference for SF/Bay Area, CA. Open to remote candidates in North America & Western EU.

What You'll Do

• Design and develop assistive AI technology for interactive, 3D workflows.
• Use the technology you build to propel human ability to communicate with interactive 3D.
• Reduce the time it takes for someone to have an idea, visualize it, and share it with others.

Responsibilities

• Build NLP pipelines that extract intent, entities, and semantic structure from user input.
• Analyze opportunities for improving the AI system's performance and personalization.
• Integrate cloud and client LLMs to drive creative workflows.
• Design and maintain knowledge graphs to represent world, character, and story data.
• Prototype and apply AI features in collaboration with product and engineering teams.
• Fine-tune or augment foundation models for domain-specific tasks.

Qualifications

• Evidence of exceptional ability in software development.
• Understanding of ML principles, algorithms, and evaluation metrics.
• Strong experience with modern NLP/LLM frameworks (e.g., Transformers, LangChain).
• Experience with data storage and retrieval with vector databases.
• Experience with graph databases (e.g., Neo4j, RDF, property graphs).
• Experience developing and operating agentic backend experiences, tools, optimizations.
• Proficient in Python and ML libraries (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow).
• Ability to ship features end-to-end.

Ideal Candidate Has:

• Experience building AI copilots.
• Experience building recommendation systems.
• Cloud ops, containerization, IaC and multi-tenant experience.
• Background in computational linguistics or knowledge representation.

Benefits

• We are a remote-first company with a small concentration in the Bay Area.
• Health insurance for you and your dependants.
• 401(k) plan.
• Flexible PTO.