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title: 'Level Designer at Spellbrush'
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last_seen: '2026-09-13'
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# Level Designer at Spellbrush

- **Company:** Spellbrush
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2025-08-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/spellbrush/64ba3d39-8a07-442a-a7f2-2a616274a875

## Job description

## What you will do

Use our in-house level design tools in Unity to create fun tactics missions. Design enemies, terrain effects, and mission objectives for your missions. Playtest your missions and iterately improve them. Collaborate closely with other game designers, artists, and engineers on the team. Help engineers improve the level design tooling that you are using. Maintain knowledge and context of all of the level content in the game.

## What we're looking for

Deep passion for tactics games. You must be able to stay self-motivated to make tactics missions for a long time. Proven ability to make fun game content. Show us what you have made! Some programming skill, preferably with C#/Unity. Enough to be able to contribute on the level design tooling and content scripts. Comfortable in a fast paced, high ownership startup environment. Shipped a game start to finish before.

## About Spellbrush

## Company Overview
- **One‑liner**: Spellbrush is the world’s leading generative AI studio for anime – the team behind niji・journey – that is building a no‑compromise turn‑based tactics game.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed‑stage; received $245K in total funding from Y Combinator and other investors)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (also offices in Chiyoda City, Tokyo, Japan)
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Cory Li (CEO), Haitao Mao (Co‑Founder, GameDev), Ruwen Liu (Co‑Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Generative AI, Computer Games (Anime)
- **Target customers**: B2C – anime fans, gamers, and digital artists; also B2B2C through their AI image/video generation platform used by artists and studios.
- **Mission statement**: “Making Anime Real” – using AI to help human artists create masterpieces in the most complex medium of video games.

## Products & Services
- **[niji・journey](https://spellbrush.com/)**: AI image generation model specialized in anime and illustration styles; accessible via Midjourney. Users can generate high‑quality anime art from text prompts.
- **Niji Video**: A recently released video generation model that produces anime‑style video clips (announced in 2025‑2026).
- **Unannounced Turn‑Based Tactics Game**: A “good anime game” being developed in‑house, focused on well‑balanced gameplay and a truthful love of visual arts. The game uses Unity and leverages Spellbrush’s own AI research.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metrics**:
  - Annual Revenue: Approximately $800K (estimated from 2025‑2026 data).
  - Total Funding: $245K (Seed rounds in 2018).
  - Headcount: ~25 employees (+19.2% YoY).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (Winter 2018 batch; primary partner Diana Hu). Seed investors include unnamed backers.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 10 active job postings across AI research, engineering, and game design.
  - Released Niji Video, expanding beyond static images into anime video generation.
  - Expanded headcount by ~20% year‑over‑year.
  - Presence in both San Francisco and Tokyo, tapping into the global anime and game talent pool.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Leading generative AI for anime** – niji・journey is the most prominent anime‑focused AI image generator, with a large user community.
- **Deep integration with Midjourney** provides a built‑in distribution channel for their model.
- **Niche focus**: The company is singularly dedicated to high‑quality anime and game art, creating a tightly‑focused R&D pipeline.
- **In‑house game development** allows them to eat their own dogfood – using AI to accelerate game asset creation while maintaining human artistry.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI‑powered game development**: Using their generative AI to build an original turn‑based tactics game, demonstrating their technology in practice.
- **Advancing anime video generation**: Expanding from still images to video (Niji Video) to capture the growing demand for AI‑assisted animation.
- **Research‑first approach**: Hiring AI researchers (LLMs, motion generation, video models) to push the boundaries of what AI can do for the anime medium.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & mission**: A team of passionate anime and game lovers who care about artistic quality. “No‑compromise approach to well‑balanced gameplay married to a truthful love of visual arts.”
- **Work environment**: Remote‑friendly – roles are open to candidates in San Francisco, Tokyo, or fully remote. Fresh graduates are welcome (some positions note “Any (new grads ok)”).
- **Engineering culture**: You’ll work on cutting‑edge generative AI (diffusion models, LLMs, video generation) alongside veteran researchers from Midjourney, Meta, NVIDIA, and Preferred Networks.
- **Perks & highlights**: Opportunity to contribute to a globally used AI platform (niji・journey) and to build an original anime game from the ground up. Flexible location, small team with high ownership.

## Sources
1. [spellbrush.com](https://spellbrush.com/careers) – Career page (company description, values)
2. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/spellbrush) – Y Combinator profile (founding, batch, team size, HQ)
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/spellbrush) – LinkedIn page (headcount, revenue, funding, locations, recent news)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/spellbrush) – Open roles (tech stack: Unity, TypeScript; remote policy)

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