Arcade AI

Arcade AI

Staff Applied AI Engineer

Presidio, CA · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 33 days ago
PythonAlgorithmsLinuxRESTMachine LearningPyTorchLLMsMLOpsDesign SystemsLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem Solving

About the role

  • We're looking for a Staff Applied AI Engineer to architect the ML systems at the core of Arcade's product.
  • This is a senior, high-leverage individual-contributor role for someone who thinks in systems - not just models.

Responsibilities

  • Architect the ML systems behind Arcade's generative platform - design the pipelines, training infrastructure, and serving systems that let diffusion models, LLMs, and emerging generative architectures run reliably and efficiently at production scale.
  • Find and build the high-leverage systems work - identify the architectural changes that scale our ML operations and meaningfully improve model output and quality, and lead them from design through production.
  • Set the evaluation and quality bar - design measurement systems (not one-off benchmarks) that real engineering decisions are made against, so model and pipeline quality is defensible with data.
  • Own production reliability - deploy, monitor, and maintain models in cloud-based production environments, ensuring scalability, latency, and cost are engineered intentionally.
  • Build the data foundation - design systems to collect, clean, and analyze large-scale datasets that improve model performance and reliability over time.
  • Communicate clearly across audiences - make technical tradeoffs legible to both technical and non-technical partners across engineering, product, and design.
  • We believe everyone should have the power to create physical goods as easily as they post online, and we're building the infrastructure to make that real.
  • We've raised $42M from a world-class group of investors, including Reid Hoffman, Forerunner Ventures (Kirsten Green), Canaan Partners (Laura Chau), Adverb Ventures (April Underwood), Factorial Funds (Sol Bier), Offline Ventures (Brit Morin), Sound Ventures (Ashton Kutcher), Inspired Capital (Alexa von Tobel), and Torch Capital (Jonathan Keidan).
  • Arcade is headquartered in San Francisco's Presidio and led by serial entrepreneur Mariam Naficy (Minted, Eve), and a founding team with deep experience in generative AI, design systems, and supply chain.
  • We're pioneering a new category at the intersection of AI, personal expression, and on-demand manufacturing, and we're building fast.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of engineering experience, with a strong track record of architecting and shipping production ML systems - formal title matters less than the scope and impact of the work.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and comfort in Linux environments
  • deep hands-on experience with ML libraries such as PyTorch and/or TensorFlow.
  • Strong working knowledge of recent developments in generative AI, diffusion models, and LLMs - and judgment about which advances are worth adopting.
  • Experience deploying and maintaining AI models in cloud-based production environments at scale.
  • Bachelor's or Master's (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Mathematics, AI/ML, or a related field.
  • Demonstrated systems thinking - you've designed the infrastructure (training pipelines, eval systems, serving architecture) that let an entire team scale ML output and quality, not just individual models.
  • Deep fundamentals in machine learning - you understand algorithms "under the hood," not just how to call them.
  • Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills with close attention to detail.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.

Nice to have

  • Production experience with text-to-image / diffusion systems specifically.
  • Competitive compensation
  • Lunch provided daily
  • Arcade is an equal opportunity employer.
  • Proven experience training, fine-tuning, and evaluating models on large-scale datasets, plus solid command of data preprocessing, cleaning, and feature engineering.

Compensation

  • Competitive compensation

Company info

  • Arcade is building the world's first AI physical product creation platform, where imagination becomes reality.
  • Our platform lets anyone design, purchase, and sell custom, manufacturable products using natural language and generative AI.
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