Weekend

Weekend

Engineering Manager, AI Game Engine

San Francisco · Exec

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 64 days ago
TypeScriptReactReact NativeNode.jsPostgreSQLRedisDynamoDBSnowflakeKubernetesMachine LearningData VisualizationLLMsCommunicationCollaboration

About the role

  • Our games attract millions of users every month, with family favorites like Jeopardy!, Song Quiz, CoComelon: Sing and Play with JJ, and Wheel of Fortune.
  • We believe voice interfaces will become the main way people access entertainment in their living rooms, kitchens, bedrooms, and cars.
  • The founders went through Y Combinator in 2018 and landed a spot on the 2022 YC Top Companies List.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and grow a high performing team of engineers, ensuring we build the right things at the right time to support our evolving gaming ecosystem.
  • Partner closely with Product and Game teams to define the roadmap, set priorities, deliver delightful and impactful features.
  • Build and scale systems and services to enable fun, engaging and unique player experiences leveraging STT/TTS, LLMs and other core technologies.
  • Collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams to identify upstream and downstream dependencies, align delivery schedules, and streamline release processes.
  • Demonstrated ability to build and grow high performing engineering teams
  • Experience successfully building and evolving AI integrations leveraging STT/TTS/LLM and similar models.
  • Experience building and running scalable services and/or software platforms including monitoring, alerting and incident response.
  • We offer visa support for eligible candidates, making relocating for the job smoother and more streamlined.
  • We are an AI-first development shop - evangelize and leverage AI productivity and development tools within your team and help drive adoption across the company.

Skills

  • The final offer amount may depend on experience, education, skills, and location.
  • Weekend is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals.
  • If any reasonable accommodation is needed, please reach out to your hiring contact.

Compensation

  • Base pay is one part of the total package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work.

Benefits

  • Your medical, dental, and vision insurance is 100% covered by Weekend, for yourself and all dependents and we match 401k!
  • We offer unlimited paid time off (enforced 2-week minimum), 16 paid holidays, 40 hours of bereavement leave, and unlimited sick days.
  • Our generous parental leave policy includes 24 weeks at 100% pay for birthing parents and 12 weeks at 100% pay for non-birthing parents.
  • A full breakdown of our benefits is here https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQ7K6szb7ED3DaVpqklprv6Ot_bXKrcsFzvy18FbLEf5RxGSQKBbcb27vfqRiP3fwh_nR6VrowDgASm/pub!
  • Foster a culture of ownership, continuous learning, and product thinking within the team.
  • For Pay Transparency: The final offer amount may depend on experience, education, skills, and location.

Company info

  • Weekend https://www.weekend.com/ is the leading developer of voice AI games for smart TVs. Our games attract millions of users every month, with family favorites like Jeopardy!, Song Quiz, CoComelon: Sing and Play with JJ, and Wheel of Fortune.
  • We believe voice interfaces will become the main way people access entertainment in their living rooms, kitchens, bedrooms, and cars. We're building a bundled subscription product similar to Netflix or Spotify for the emerging category of "AI-powered games."
  • Weekend was founded by Max Child and James Wilsterman in 2024. The founders went through Y Combinator in 2018 and landed a spot on the 2022 YC Top Companies List. We're a quickly-growing team headquartered in Union Square, San Francisco.
  • Weekend https://www.weekend.com/ is the leading developer of voice AI games for smart TVs.
  • We're building a bundled subscription product similar to Netflix or Spotify for the emerging category of "AI-powered games."
  • Weekend was founded by Max Child and James Wilsterman in 2024.
  • We're a quickly-growing team headquartered in Union Square, San Francisco.
  • We're looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our AI Game Engine team.
  • You will lead a high performing team of software and ML engineers building the systems and services needed to deliver best-in-class voice-first AI-native gaming experiences to our players on connected TVs and other gaming surfaces.
  • This is a new team responsible for building and evolving our core voice and model integrations along with other services needed to deliver our game development and runtime platform.
  • This includes speech-to-text and text-to-speech pipelines, LLM game integration, model evaluation and fine tuning, image generation pipelines, and content/prompt management.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • We offer visa support for eligible candidates, making relocating for the job smoother and more streamlined.
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