Founding Machine Learning Engineer, Arcade Software
$180-300k
+ Equity
On site Tuesdays and Thursdays
Interactive product demos
Open for applications
Interactive product demos
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$180-300k
+ Equity
On site Tuesdays and Thursdays
21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower teams to become great storytellers.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for our first product-minded machine learning engineer who’s excited to push the boundaries of what’s possible with AI. At Arcade,
- Strong Python + ML engineering background (PyTorch, diffusers, transformers, or similar)
- Hands-on experience fine-tuning or training open-source models
- Deep familiarity with modern inference and training tooling (LoRA, PEFT, DeepSpeed, Ray, Hugging Face, etc.)
- Portfolio or prior work demonstrating creative use of generative models (visuals, videos, text, etc.)
- Comfort operating across research, engineering, and product — shipping real features, not just experiments
- (Nice to have) Familiarity with TypeScript/Next.js and integrating ML APIs into frontend products
- Located in or willing to relocate to the Bay Area; occasional in-person collaboration required
What the job involves
- At Arcade, you’ll experiment with the latest models to generate visuals, motion, and language that capture brand personality — crafting the foundation for content that builds and improves itself
- This is a highly collaborative and high-impact role. You’ll partner closely with design, engineering, and product to build and customize machine learning models
- Expect to move fast, own ambitious projects, and see your ideas shape the way people tell product stories
- Own the ML stack end-to-end: Evaluate hosted models, fine-tune open-source ones, and build scalable pipelines for image, video, and text generation
- Develop brand-aligned generation systems: Create techniques for tone, color, and style fidelity across mediums
- Improve generation quality: Build internal evaluation frameworks to measure realism, brand match, and creative diversity
- Prototype and ship: Rapidly turn research ideas into productized APIs that power Arcade’s content generation features
- Collaborate cross-functionally: Work with design and marketing to define what “on-brand” means, and with engineers to integrate ML systems into production
- Lay the foundation for content optimization: Build data pipelines connecting engagement metrics to model tuning
Our take
In order to stand out in today’s climate, product-led companies need to employ marketing strategies that can engage customers at a higher level than traditional methods. Arcade Software allows these companies to build interactive experiences for their digital spaces, that spark curiosity and entice new customers to their products.
With Arcade, a company can create product demos in minutes, automatically building from screen captures, videos, and tooltips. The demos can then be hosted on client websites, blogs, and social media, with analytics available to inform future edits and updates towards optimizing customer experience.
Arcade Software has served thousands of clients, including Atlassian and Remitly. Funding raised by the company has supported the further development of its product and the building out of its team as it grows into the future.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Nov 2024
$14m
SERIES A
Sep 2022
$5m
SEED
Total funding: $21.5m
Company benefits
- Meaningful equity
- Unlimited PTO and sick days
- 401k
- Health, Dental and Vision insurance
- $500 a month remote work stipend
- Hybrid and meeting light culture
- Biannual company retreats
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Caroline Clark
(CEO & Co-founder)Former Associate at Sequoia Capital as well as working in Product Marketing at Atlassian.
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