Research Engineer
About the role
Role Snapshot: Research Engineer. You'll build and optimize the generation pipelines, training methods, and inference systems that produce interactive 3D worlds in real time.
Compensation: $200k - $350k + equity Free housing, food, and transportation included. Visa sponsorship and relocation support available.
What This Role Is About:
You'll work across Roam's core AI stack: distributed multi-agent orchestration for world synthesis, RL pipelines for adaptive game generation, and agentic codegen and diffusion tooling for 3D environments. The team is 12 people, built from ex-Moonshot researchers, second-time founders, and engineers who shipped 100+ games at studios like Voodoo and Supersonic. Your output goes directly into products that 1,000+ creators with 250M+ combined reach will use to generate and publish games.
Location: San Francisco, onsite.
What Makes This Opportunity Exceptional:
- Roam has already locked in 1,000+ gaming and livestream creators (100K to 10M followers each) as launch partners, giving your work a distribution channel of 250M+ fans from day one.
- The team acquired a consumer product studio with 11.5M+ downloads, so you're building on real product traction, not starting from a research paper.
- Backed by investors behind ByteDance and Anduril, Together AI, and Polymarket.
What You'll Be Responsible For:
- Build and scale distributed training, data curation, and inference pipelines for multimodal 3D world generation, from terrain synthesis to asset population and behavior trees.
- Design and run RL pipelines for open-ended game generation with hierarchical action spaces and dynamic difficulty adjustment, defining new benchmarks for retention and interactive intelligence.
- Own agent orchestration and diffusion-based tooling that turns creator inputs into studio-quality simulated environments ready for real-time play.