Software Engineer

<p><strong>About us</strong></p><ul><li>We're building a new category of interactive entertainment powered by AI characters, image, video, and real-time experiences. We’re one of the most-visited AI products globally, serving millions of users every day.</li><li>We work in-person in New York City.</li></ul><p><br /></p><p><strong>How we work</strong></p><ul><li><strong>User-first:</strong> We build what people want. We invest time to understand our users and focus on adding value instead of extracting value.</li><li><strong>High agency, high ownership:</strong> We own outcomes end-to-end. When something goes wrong, we take responsibility and fix it.</li><li><strong>Urgency:</strong> We prioritize ruthlessly, increase leverage, and move at an exceptional pace.</li></ul><p><br /></p><p><strong>What you'll do</strong></p><ul><li>You’ll join a small, talent-dense engineering team with significant ownership across product, infrastructure, and AI.</li><li>You won’t be handed narrowly-scoped tickets. You’ll work from problems and outcomes: understand what users need, decide what should be built, design the system, ship it, measure the result, and iterate.</li><li>Our product stack includes TypeScript, Next.js, React, tRPC, Postgres, ClickHouse, Temporal, and AWS. Our inference stack is Python, serving LLMs, TTS, and diffusion image and video models on self-hosted GPUs.</li></ul><p><br /></p><p><strong>Example projects</strong></p><ul><li><strong>Design memory for month-long conversations.</strong> Decide how memories are written, ranked, and retrieved across billions of messages while fitting everything into a fixed context budget.</li><li><strong>Build the For You feed.</strong> Own retrieval, ranking, cold start, and experimentation end-to-end, with retention as the metric.</li><li><strong>Ship frontier models days after release.</strong> Evaluate and benchmark new models, figure out the economics of hosting them at scale, and find the best configuration for millions of users.</li></ul><p><br /></p><p><strong>What you'll bring</strong></p><ul><li>A track record of shipping exceptional products at meaningful scale.</li><li>Strong product and engineering judgment: knowing <strong>what to build, how to build it, and where to make tradeoffs</strong>.</li><li><strong>Hunger to win.</strong> You want high ownership, high expectations, and a lot of responsibility.</li></ul><p><br /></p><p><strong>What we offer</strong></p><ul><li><strong>Top-of-market compensation</strong> with meaningful equity upside.</li><li><strong>Real ownership from day one.</strong> Work on important problems and see the impact of what you ship.</li><li><strong>Fast-growing scope.</strong> As your impact grows, your responsibility and compensation should grow with it.</li><li>A company card for food, coffee, tools, and anything that helps you do your best work.</li><li>Daily team lunch and dinner at the office.</li><li>An unlimited workspace budget to build your ideal setup.</li></ul><p><br /></p><p><strong>How we think about comp</strong></p><ul><li>We <strong>raise the ceiling for exceptional performers</strong>, not the floor. As your impact grows, your compensation should too.</li><li>The listed range is cash + equity.</li><li>We review compensation every 6 months.</li><li>Bonuses reward past impact, and raises reflect your new level.</li></ul><p><br /></p><p><strong>Our interview process</strong></p><ol><li><strong>Intro call:</strong> 15 minutes to align on the role and company.</li><li><strong>Founder interview:</strong> go deep on what you’ve built, how you think, and how you work.</li><li><strong>Technical interview:</strong> 1 hour of system design and technical discussion. No live coding.</li><li><strong>Paid work trial:</strong> spend 3 days with us in-person working on a real problem. We cover travel and accommodation, if needed.</li><li><strong>Offer:</strong> if it’s a strong fit, we move quickly.</li></ol>