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# Founding Technical Recruiter at Astrocade

- **Company:** Astrocade
- **Location:** Palo Alto, CA
- **Compensation:** $150k–$200k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/astrocade/346f49e2-f528-41d8-80f8-f5ab6e952ad0/application

**Skills:** Technical Recruiting, Sourcing, Outbound Recruiting, AI/ML Recruiting, Infrastructure Engineering Recruiting, Distributed Systems Recruiting, Backend Recruiting, Platform Engineering Recruiting, AI Recruiting, ML Recruiting, Recommendation Systems Recruiting, Market Mapping, Competitive Intelligence, Talent Research

> The Founding Technical Recruiter will build the engineering team for Astrocade's AI platform by sourcing and closing senior software engineers. This full-cycle role involves partnering with founders, researching talent markets, and developing competitive intelligence to hire exceptional candidates across infrastruct...

## Job description

Astrocade is an AI technology company building super-intelligence for the interactive world, delivered through a breakout consumer platform. Today's frontier models can write, reason, and generate video. None can build a world you can step into and act on. Interactive world models are one of the defining problems on the path to ASI, and the foundation of the next great consumer platform. Interactivity is the holy grail of content: not something you watch, but something that responds to you. We're further ahead than anyone: the only team building the intelligence and the platform together, and both are already live. Our social UGC platform lets anyone create and play interactive experiences through natural language. And it's one of the fastest-growing consumer products in the world, with over 30 million users in just months since launch. Creators bring to life games, companions that remember and grow with them, learning experiences that adapt like a great tutor, and social worlds built with friends. The platform also powers our research with data no video dataset contains: millions of creators prompting and refining gives us paired data of human intent and the worlds that fulfill it, and every play session produces ground-truth, action-labeled interaction data at scale. All of it flows back into our models, and research ships to real players in days, spinning a flywheel no one else can build. We are a small team from Google Research, Meta, FAIR, [Character.ai](http://Character.ai), and Stanford, led alongside Fei-Fei Li, with frontier-scale compute and direct ownership of core model problems. We are backed by Sequoia Capital, Google, NVIDIA, and luminaries including Eric Schmidt and Jerry Yang. The next foundational AI company will be built where world models meet a billion players. We're the rare place where frontier research and a breakout consumer platform are one company, and where your work ships to millions, not to a paper. Come build it with us.

## About the Role

We’re looking for our Founding Technical Recruiter to help build one of the strongest engineering teams in AI. You’ll partner directly with founders and engineering leaders to hire exceptional engineers across infrastructure, AI/ML, recommendation systems, data, and platform engineering. This is a full-cycle recruiting role, but sourcing is the heart of the job. You’ll spend your time identifying talent others miss, building relationships with world-class engineers, and helping us win competitive searches. Beyond recruiting, you’ll become an expert on the AI talent landscape—mapping companies, researching technical organizations, and developing the market intelligence that shapes our hiring strategy.

## What You’ll Do

- Own full-cycle recruiting for technical roles from sourcing through offer close
- Build outbound pipelines for exceptional engineering talent
- Partner closely with founders and hiring managers on hiring strategy
- Research companies, technical teams, and talent markets to identify high-impact candidates
- Build competitive talent maps and hiring intelligence to inform recruiting strategy
- Deliver an exceptional candidate experience throughout the hiring process
- Continuously improve recruiting workflows using AI and automation where it creates leverage

You’d Be a Great Fit If You

- Have 3–10 years of experience recruiting technical talent
- Have experience sourcing and closing senior software engineers at startups or leading technology companies
- Can confidently evaluate technical backgrounds across infrastructure, distributed systems, AI/ML, recommendation systems, backend, and platform engineering
- Love outbound recruiting and proactively building relationships with exceptional talent
- Are highly competitive, move with urgency, and enjoy solving difficult hiring problems
- Are an exceptional communicator who earns trust with both candidates and hiring managers
- Take ownership and thrive in a high-expectation, early-stage environment

Bonus Points

- Experience recruiting for AI, ML, recommendation systems, or infrastructure engineering teams
- Experience building market maps, competitive intelligence, and talent research from scratch
- Strong understanding of modern AI tools and how they can improve recruiting workflows
- Experience hiring engineers from companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, xAI, Roblox, TikTok, or other leading AI and consumer technology companies

## What we Offer

- Competitive salary, meaningful equity, and performance bonus.
- 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and eligible dependents.
- Flexible PTO and unlimited sick time.
- $650/month AI Tools budget to use on the tools that help you do your best work.
- $500/month Lifestyle Benefit for wellness, fitness, meals, house cleaning, and more.
- $200/month Fun Benefit to spend on hobbies, travel, games, concerts, or whatever brings you joy.
- Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave for birth parents and 12 weeks for non-birth parents, plus a $1,500/month childcare benefit.
- $2,000 workspace setup allowance and $200/month commuter benefit.
- Daily breakfast, lunch, and dinner on in-office days, plus regular team events and offsites.
- 401(k) retirement plan through Human Interest.

Join us to help build the future of interactive entertainment!

## About Astrocade

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Astrocade is an AI-powered social gaming platform that enables anyone to create, play, and share games using natural language, no coding required.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: Los Altos, California, USA (also lists Palo Alto, CA as HQ on LinkedIn)
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Amir Sadeghian (CEO) and Ali Sadeghian (CTO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: AI-powered game creation, social gaming, interactive entertainment
- Target customers: B2C — creators (from novice to pro), players, and game enthusiasts of all ages; also appeals to educators and hobbyists
- Mission or purpose statement: "Share fun with the world" — making game creation accessible to everyone, not just developers

## Products & Services
- **[Astrocade Platform]**: A generative AI game creation platform that merges natural-language processing with no-code design tools. Users describe their game idea in plain language, and AI automates art, animation, sound, and core gameplay mechanics — reducing development from weeks to minutes. Games are published directly to a social platform with built-in distribution.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised — **$68M** (includes Series B led by Sequoia Capital and Series A led by Sea)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia Capital, Sea, Google’s AI Futures Fund, NVIDIA, LG Technology Ventures, Dentsu Ventures, Conviction Embed, Chaac Ventures, Rogue VC, and 26+ others
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Over **20 million engaged users** in just eight months since public launch
  - Hundreds of millions of plays every month
  - Headcount grew **106.7% year-over-year** (to ~21 employees)
  - Active hiring across engineering, growth, and product roles
  - Creators (many without coding experience) are making thousands of dollars per month on the platform

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-Native Game Creation**: Uses proprietary generative AI models to automate art, animation, sound, and gameplay — making game creation as simple as typing a description.
- **Democratized Creation**: Opens game development to anyone, not just programmers or artists, dramatically expanding the creator pool.
- **Social Platform with Built-in Distribution**: Games are published directly to a social feed where millions of players discover and play — solving the distribution problem that plagues most indie game creators.
- **Founders' Unconventional Background**: Both founders are math/informatics Olympiad medalists with AI research backgrounds (Stanford PhD, Google AI researcher), bringing a first-principles approach to gaming rather than industry incumbency.
- **Fast Iteration Loop**: Enables rapid prototyping and testing of game mechanics, reducing development from weeks to minutes.

## Strategic Focus
- **Platform Expansion**: Making the creation experience faster, more powerful, and open to more people.
- **Community Investment**: Deepening investment in the creator community, including weekly game jams and creator monetization.
- **Team Growth**: Actively hiring across technical and growth roles to scale the platform.
- **Global Reach**: Expanding from a user base that spans every culture and background, with presence in the US, India, and Turkey.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as a "fresh perspective" on gaming — built by outsiders (AI researchers, not traditional game devs) for outsiders. Emphasis on first-principles thinking and unconventional approaches.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: On-site workspace at Los Altos/Palo Alto headquarters.
- **Growth Trajectory**: Explosive user growth (20M users in 8 months) and strong venture backing ($68M total) suggests a high-growth environment with significant upside.
- **Engineering Culture**: Opportunity to work at the frontier of generative AI applied to entertainment. Roles include Member of Technical Staff (Frontend, RecSys, Infrastructure, Data Platform) — indicating a strong technical team building foundational AI infrastructure.
- **Notable Perks**: Working on a platform that "shows how generative AI is transforming interactive entertainment" — meaningful, creative work with immediate user impact.
- **Active Job Postings** (as of mid-2026): Member of Technical Staff (Frontend), Head of Growth Marketing, Member of Technical Staff (RecSys), Member of Technical Staff (Infrastructure), Member of Technical Staff (Data Platform), Product Growth

## Sources
1. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/astrocade)
2. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/astrocade)
3. [astrocade.com](https://www.astrocade.com/)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/astrocade)
5. [astrocade.com/blog](https://www.astrocade.com/blog/astrocade-raises-56m-funding)
6. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/astrocade)

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