Arcade AI

Arcade AI

Product Engineer, AI

Presidio, CA

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 197 days ago
DatabricksVector DatabasesLLMsUX ResearchResearch

About the role

  • Arcade's Chief AI Officer is Varun Jampani, a leading researcher who co-authored Dreambooth and created Stable Diffusion 3.5, among other things.
  • Raghudeep Gadde, Head of Research at Arcade, was formerly a Principal Scientist at Amazon.
  • You will report directly to our Co-Founder & CEO, Mariam Naficy, and work alongside our engineers, designers, and AI researchers to launch category-defining experiences.

Responsibilities

  • Design and launch work that has real-world impact, cultural visibility, and end-to-end ownership, shaping an entirely new category and product paradigm
  • Collaborate closely with leading scientists, AI researchers, and designers to integrate cutting-edge models and tools into intuitive, production-ready features
  • Own end-to-end product workflows from ideation to launch, including user research, technical scoping, coding, and post-launch iteration
  • Write and maintain system prompts
  • Design, build and test agentic workflows, LLM chains, and multimodal model calls to power core user actions
  • Implement taste/quality controls, define acceptance thresholds, and instrument on-surface quality metrics to protect user trust at scale
  • 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 for both consumers and businesses.
  • 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).
  • Together, we're pioneering a new category at the intersection of AI, personal expression, and on-demand manufacturing, and we're building fast.
  • Arcade's Product Engineer, AI role is intended for an individual with extraordinary talent and ambition who wants to build the future of design and commerce AI and who demonstrates founder-mode ownership.

Requirements

  • A Computer Science or Engineering degree, with 2+ years of rigorous software development experience
  • Familiarity with modern AI infrastructure - LLMs (and their limitations), prompt engineering, multimodal/image models, vector databases, and agent frameworks.

Nice to have

  • Competitive compensation
  • Lunch provided daily

Compensation

  • Competitive compensation

Company info

  • What We're Looking For
  • We're looking for an individual who has accomplished remarkable things, wants ownership, and possesses an unrivaled work ethic. We're looking for:
  • 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.
  • Arcade is headquartered in San Francisco's Presidio and led by serial entrepreneur Mariam Naficy (Minted, Eve), and a mission-driven team from Google, Apple, Stability AI, Glean, NVIDIA, Databricks, LinkedIn, Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, and more.

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