Fullstack Engineer, Medal X General Intuition
Data Platform
$180-300k
+ Equity
Social video platform for gaming
Open for applications
Social video platform for gaming
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$180-300k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To connect people by creating memories while they are physically apart!
Role
Who you are
- What We're Looking For:
- You own orchestration and GPU clusters - scheduling, utilization, capacity. Expensive hardware sitting idle is your problem, and so is a training run blocked behind the scheduler
- You build the preprocessing pipelines that turn a very large corpus of raw gameplay video into training-ready data, at a throughput that keeps training from waiting on data
- You treat disk and network I/O as a first-class constraint rather than an afterthought. At our data volumes it is frequently the bottleneck, and you know how to find out whether it is
- You optimize inference in production - batching, quantization, KV cache, serving runtimes - and you own the latency and cost numbers rather than reporting them
- You are at ease across cloud providers and comfortable owning infrastructure as code, multi-region deployment, and the reliability of everything above
- You can draw a circle around something substantial and say: this was mine. You decided how it was built, you chose the technologies, and you carried it to production. Not "contributed to a team that" - you made the calls, and you have several examples
- We weigh two routes in the same. Either you spent years deep in infrastructure at a large tech company or a serious lab, then left to build your own thing as founder, co-founder, or founding engineer, and you've been at it for at least a year
- Or you've spent five or six years going deep on hard infrastructure inside a big company or lab, you own a system people have heard of, and you're ready for a place where you decide what gets built
- Either way, you're still writing code today and you want to keep writing it
- We are not dogmatic about any of this. If you think we've made the wrong call somewhere, that's a conversation we want to have in the interview
What the job involves
- Billions of gameplay clips a year come in on one side. Large action models and world models train and serve on the other. Everything in between - the pipelines that turn raw footage into training data, the clusters that consume it, the storage and I/O that keeps them fed, the runtime that serves the results - is infrastructure, and it is what you own
- This is deliberately not a narrow role. We are not hiring a Kubernetes specialist, or a data engineer, or an inference person. We're hiring someone who can move from cluster scheduling to disk throughput to a preprocessing pipeline to inference latency in the same week, and who becomes the technical reference other engineers bring their system designs to, across both GI and Medal
- You'll work directly with the founding team, at a company small enough that the decisions are yours to make
- Our Stack:
- Kubernetes, multi-region. GPUs across cloud providers. Python and Go, with Rust and C++ where performance demands it. Terraform. In-house frontier models: action models, world models, video understanding
Our take
Video games have become highly social experiences due to multiplayer gaming, eSports and social media, spawning a huge market for audiences who enjoy watching gaming-related video content. Gamers commonly stream games and edit the footage to produce memes and engage with friends, but this requires many software tools and a separate platform on which to share experiences.
Medal provides a social platform for gaming video clips. It allows users to record and edit footage, make gaming memes, and share content with friends from one place. While the company competes with platform giants like Twitch, it stands out by being specifically designed for gaming content. It also collects in-game data to mitigate cheating and cyberbullying, and integrates directly into any Windows or Android game.
In 2025, Medal spun out "General Intuition", and has since been hiring to both its own and the new company's team. General Intuition's mission is to build a new class of models that can perceive, predict and act in both virtual and physical environments. It is leveraging Medal's vast datasets to this end, reducing the limitations on machine intelligence by training AI on interaction and exploration rather than just written words.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2024
$13m
LATE VC
Dec 2021
$45m
SERIES C
Total funding: $85.7m
Company HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
Additional info
- General Intuition is the frontier lab for acting in space and time, spun out of Medal in 2025. Find out more at www.generalintuition.com
Leadership
Iggy Harmsen
(Co-Founder & Product)Former COO/CCO/Finance for the company. Worked in CS and Marketing for Soulsplit from 2012 to 2015.
Ken Colton
(CEO)Joined the company as Lead Software Engineer in 2021, becoming CTO then President then CEO. Previously Lead Software Engineer at Gif Your Game, Technical Lead at Grubhub and CTO at Material World. Co-founded and was Front-End Lead at Twubs.
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