--- title: 'Head of People Operations at Moonlake' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/head-of-people-operations-moonlake-san-francisco-yj897grtctr3' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-13' --- # Head of People Operations at Moonlake - **Company:** Moonlake - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Posted:** 2026-05-11 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/moonlake/bb79f4f6-16d6-4001-849f-09ab73b21b76 ## Job description Introducing Moonlake, AI for creating world simulations. ## About Moonlake Moonlake is building the frontier of interactive world models: systems that generate, simulate, and reason over 3D environments for embodied AI, robotics and gaming. We develop the simulation infrastructure to build worlds (e.g., assets, scenes, digital twins) at scale. Our team sits at the intersection of: - Embodied AI - Robotics simulation - Interactive 3D worlds - World models - Real-time generation - AI infrastructure Moonlake is building the next generation of AI infrastructure for interactive digital worlds. Our mission is to enable anyone to create, simulate, and interact with rich environments using natural language and multimodal inputs, turning simple ideas into worlds with structure, logic, and agents that can perceive and act. Our team has raised $28M in seed funding from NVIDIA Ventures, Threshold Ventures, AIX ventures and notable angels including Naval Ravikant and Jeff Dean to build the foundational layer for the future of AI - powering everything from creative tools and games to robotics training, simulations, and digital twins. Our goal is to make building and experimenting with these environments as accessible and scalable as publishing video on the internet. We are looking for exceptional research engineers and applied researchers to help push the frontier of interactive AI. ## The Role We’re looking for a Head of People Operations to support the company’s day-to-day people and administrative operations. This role is intentionally designed as a highly execution-oriented operational position focused on: - Coordination - Administrative support - Recruiting operations - Scheduling - HR process support - Internal organization We’re looking for someone highly reliable, organized, responsive, and detail-oriented who enjoys helping teams operate smoothly in a fast-paced startup environment. The ideal candidate thrives in ambiguity, communicates clearly, and is comfortable handling a wide range of operational tasks across the organization. ## What You’ll Do - Coordinate interviews, scheduling, and recruiting logistics - Support onboarding and employee administrative processes - Help manage recruiting operations and candidate coordination - Organize internal documentation and operational workflows - Assist with calendar management and meeting coordination - Support day-to-day HR and people operations tasks - Maintain operational systems and internal process hygiene - Help improve organizational efficiency across teams - Work closely with leadership on administrative and operational support needs Areas of Responsibility Recruiting Operations - Interview scheduling - Candidate coordination - Recruiting process tracking - ATS support and data hygiene - Candidate communication People Operations - Onboarding coordination - Internal documentation - HR process support - Team coordination - Employee administrative support Administrative Support - Calendar management - Meeting logistics - Internal coordination - Process organization - Cross-functional operational support ## What We’re Looking For - Strong organizational and operational skills - Exceptional attention to detail - Clear written and verbal communication - High responsiveness and reliability - Ability to manage multiple workflows simultaneously - Comfort working in fast-paced startup environments - Strong execution mindset - Ability to operate independently with minimal oversight ## Why This Role Matters Moonlake operates in a highly fast-moving research and engineering environment where speed and organization matter deeply. This role helps ensure: - Hiring processes move efficiently - Teams stay coordinated - Operations remain organized - Leadership can stay focused on execution and product development You’ll help create the operational foundation that supports Moonlake’s continued growth. We are committed to being an on-site, in-person team currently based in San Francisco. ## About Moonlake ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Moonlake AI builds multimodal world models and simulation environments to accelerate the development of physical AI and embodied intelligence. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage) – raised $28M in Seed funding - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2025 - **Founders**: Sharon Lee (Co-Founder); key team includes Yitong Deng (Founding Research Scientist) and Siddharth Ahuja (Head of Product) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: AI research and world modeling, with a focus on simulation for robotics, autonomous driving, and embodied AI. - **Target customers**: B2B – enterprises in robotics, autonomous mobility, and AI research labs (e.g., OpenAI, Waymo, Stanford). - **Mission**: “Build the frontier of sim-ready worlds and embodied AI” – enabling efficient reinforcement learning and evaluation through generative simulation environments. ## Products & Services - **Moonlake World Model**: A real-time neural rendering model grounded in 3D information that creates high-fidelity simulation environments from text, images, point clouds, or Gaussian splats. Includes articulation, physics, and deformable objects. - **3D Agent**: An AI agent that operates inside Blender, automating the creation of articulated assets, physics-validated scenes, and complex environments while preserving fine-grained editability. - **Reconstruction & Agent Capabilities**: Multimodal world models that maintain state, predict outcomes, and enable planning over limited action spaces. ## Market Standing - **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total funding of $28M (Seed round, November 2025) - **Notable Investors**: Threshold Ventures (formerly DFJ), AIX Ventures, NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture arm). Angel investors include Jeff Dean, Ian Goodfellow, Naval Ravikant, Steve Chen, Guillermo Rauch, and Jared Leto. - **Growth Signals**: Named to CB Insights AI 100 list (May 2026); trusted by companies with a combined market cap of $8T+ (including OpenAI, Stanford, Waymo); 4,372 LinkedIn followers (+8.2% monthly growth); small team of 15 employees with strong talent from Berkeley AI Research, Stanford, Google, and others. ## Competitive Advantages - **Real-time 3D world model** with minimal sim-to-real gap, grounded in 3D geometry rather than purely 2D video. - **Integration with Blender** allows artists and engineers to edit and refine generated assets interactively. - **Multimodal state maintenance** enables world models that can simulate complex physics and deformable objects, critical for RL training. - **Strong investor backing** from NVIDIA, top AI researchers, and unicorn founders provides strategic leverage. ## Strategic Focus - Building a **product-driven data flywheel** – starting with tools that make simulation creation accessible to everyone, then using generated data to train better world models. - Targeting **embodied general intelligence** by enabling massive-scale RL training and evaluation in generative worlds. - Expanding the **“3D Agent”** to act as a technical artist, continuously refining simulations over thousands of steps. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Small, high-impact research team at the frontier of world modeling and embodied AI. Team members come from top labs (Berkeley, Stanford, Google, DeepMind). - **Location**: Headquarters in San Francisco (hybrid likely, but not explicitly stated). - **Perks & Environment**: Not detailed, but the company emphasizes “building meaning” and a product-driven approach. Opportunities for deep technical work in neural rendering, physics simulation, and RL. - **Recent Recognition**: CB Insights AI 100 list adds external validation and visibility. ## Sources 1. [moonlakeai.com](https://moonlakeai.com/) 2. [linkedin.com/company/moonlake-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/moonlake-ai) 3. [moonlakeai.com/blog/introducing-moonlake-ai](https://moonlakeai.com/blog/introducing-moonlake-ai) 4. [moonlakeai.com/about](https://moonlakeai.com/about) 5. 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