Staff AI Engineer, Zenith

Salary not provided
Kubernetes
Python
CUDA
PyTorch
Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area
Zenith

Multiplayer cross-platform VR game studio

Open for applications

Zenith

Multiplayer cross-platform VR game studio

21-100 employees

B2CB2BGamingSaaSVirtual Reality

Open for applications

Salary not provided
Kubernetes
Python
CUDA
PyTorch
Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

21-100 employees

B2CB2BGamingSaaSVirtual Reality

Company mission

To build the next reality featuring an infinite universe where millions of people can build new lives together in massively multiplayer online roleplaying games.

Role

Who you are

  • 7+ years of experience as an IC working on high scale distributed and ML systems
  • Have familiarity with the latest AI research and working knowledge of how these systems are efficiently implemented
  • Are comfortable with ambiguity and rapidly changing conditions. You view changes as an opportunity to add structure and order when necessary
  • Python and Data Science Frameworks, CUDA, Kubernetes, PyTorch
  • Core understanding of existing LLM APIs like OpenAI, Vertex, Llama 2, etc

Desirable

  • Game Engine Programming or Game Development Experience
  • XR Application Development
  • Advanced Research Degree in AI/ML

What the job involves

  • We are looking for a Staff AI Engineer to work with us on a groundbreaking gaming platform with an aim to disrupt how games are made
  • You will help us build the next generation of tools for both internal products, as well as tools for external content creators in the future
  • You will be responsible for building and tuning a LLM that can be used to shape how we will build games in the future
  • You will also be responsible for taking that platform and integrating into a gaming platform
  • You will need to understand the latest technologies, costs, and risks associated with each decision we make, and understand the viability of anything we try
  • Things like RAG, Vector Search, Fine Tuning, Embedding, and even eventually training a full scale LLM from scratch
  • Architect and build new foundational AI technologies focused around game and content creation in particular training and deploying new models, coming up with novel schemas and representations for game data, etc
  • Integrate AI platform technology into game development engines and pipelines
  • Train and educate leadership and engineering team on the latest in AI technology
  • Also, we're such a small team, that you'll be working from and learning directly from the founders every day

Our take

The rise of cross-platform, multiplayer gaming, coupled with Virtual Reality’s entrance into the mainstream, makes this an extremely exciting time for gaming studios. Zenith (formerly Ramen VR) might be the most ambitious studio of all right now, with its intention to create open, interconnected, gaming worlds.

The 2019-founded company has enjoyed record breaking success since releasing its flagship title, Zenith: The Lost City, in early 2022. It became the best selling game on Steam, Oculus Rift, and Oculus Quest, and was the first cross-platform VR MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing games) available on all major gaming systems.

With the runaway success of Zenith and the steady release of updates (including an AI-powered voice moderator for Zenith's chatrooms, that weeds out racist and homophobic behavior), the company has since secured major investment. It intends to use this to expand its relatively small studio and continue attempting to realize its vision of creating an infinite gaming universe.

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Company benefits

  • Create the next reality: Every startup claims they are changing the world. How often do you find one that's building an entirely new reality? Also, we're such a small team, that you'll be working from and learning directly from the founders every day.
  • We Love Games: Have a favorite game coming out? Take a day off on launch day. We'll even buy you the deluxe version of the game. Play the game, and just do a short write-up to teach us what you learned. Want to attend PAX or E3? Once a year, we'll schedule a corporate trip for anyone who wants to go and hang out, while working together.
  • Work Remotely: Need to walk the dog, take care of your kids, or just want to live where you are? Work remotely from anywhere in the world.
  • Company Game Jams: About once per quarter, travel somewhere in the world with us, and live in a big house together for a week, all expenses paid. Spend time working, playing games, exploring a new country, and growing together.

Company HQ

Davis Tract, San Leandro, CA

Leadership

Was CEO of TribeVR from 2016 - 2019 and the co-organizer of Boston VR - the US's second largest VR community. Previously worked in Product Lead / Director roles at free internet company Jana, mystery shopping app Mobee, and gaming studios Metamoki and GREE.

Was Lead Engineer at Unity Technologies, working on In-App purchasing SDK and Game Foundations projects after working as a Software Engineer at Google, leading engineering on Google Wallet for iOS and Android Wear for iOS. Co-founded and was CTO of iOS Contracting and Consulting Company Nimbly Inc.

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