Astrocade is a Los Altos, CA–based games creation platform that uses generative AI to enable users to create, play, and share video games and digital experiences.
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 http://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. ABOUT THE ROLE Games are more engaging, more meaningful, and more fun than passive content — and we think everyone should be able to make them. As a Frontend Member of Technical Staff (MTS), you’ll help make that a reality. You’ll own the creation and play experiences that millions of users touch every day, working at the intersection of product intuition, AI-generated content, and consumer-grade polish. This is a small, dense team: you won’t be maintaining someone else’s system — you will be shaping how the platform feels. WHAT YOU’LL DO - Build and own core user-facing features across the creation and discovery experiences - Work closely with AI/systems engineers to surface complex, AI-generated content in ways that feel fast, intuitive, and delightful - Make opinionated calls on UX — we care about taste, not just correctness - Optimize for performance at real consumer scale (tens of millions of users, high-frequency play sessions) - Contribute to frontend architecture decisions and uphold high code quality standards YOU’D BE A GREAT FIT IF YOU: - Have 3–6+ years of frontend experience (ideally on consumer products) - Are fluent in React and TypeScript, and have strong opinions about their use - Have built products where experience quality was central to the product - Have worked on data-rich or real-time UIs (feeds, game rendering, dashboards, etc.) - Are self-directed and work independently from idea to shipped product BONUS POINTS: - Experience with WebGL, canvas, or game rendering - Experience on high-growth consumer platforms (Instagram, TikTok, Roblox, YouTube) - Familiarity with recommendation-driven feed UIs 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!