About the company

Our client is a seed-stage AI and gaming company in Los Angeles building the licensed data layer for AI world models. They capture high-fidelity multimodal data — video, 3D scenes, depth, telemetry, and metadata — directly at the game-engine level, and deliver it to frontier AI labs as rights-cleared datasets. Founded in 2025 and funded by a $6M seed led by a top-tier Silicon Valley venture firm, the team is around 15 to 20 people with a flat structure. You would report directly to the CTO and co-founder.

The role

This is the forward-deployed technical seat between the company and its partner game studios. You'd own custom engine integrations end to end — mapping a partner's proprietary rendering pipeline, shipping live capture against it, and keeping it working across game patches and engine updates. Every new partner, game, and engine is a fresh architecture problem rather than maintenance of somebody else's system. Alongside the integration work you'd harden the core C++ capture SDK and desktop client for long-term robustness. The team has already cut the time to support a new game from about a week to roughly 30 minutes, and the SDK group is two people today, so there is room to grow into leading it.

What you'll do

Own custom engine integrations end to end — from mapping a partner's proprietary rendering pipeline to shipping live capture and maintaining it across patches and engine updates
Architect and build a solution for every new partner, game, and engine
Act as the forward-deployed technical point of contact alongside partner engineering teams
Improve and harden the core capture SDK and desktop client for long-term robustness
Extend tooling for the modder ecosystem
Optimize performance across capture, upload, and processing pipelines running multiple simultaneous data streams

What we're looking for

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Nice to have

Built plugins, mods, or game-hacking tools
Partner-facing or client-facing experience
Comfort with public speaking
Leadership potential — this seat could grow into managing the two-person SDK team
A personal connection to PC gaming or modding culture

Tech stack

C++, D3D11, D3D12, OpenGL, Vulkan
Windows APIs and DLL loading
Unreal Engine and Unity
NVENC and AMF
Python, PowerShell, Bash, CI/CD

Compensation & logistics

$80k–$180k base + competitive equity — the company is intentionally minimizing dilution, so equity is meaningful
Full-time on-site in Los Angeles; open to 4 days/week
Up to roughly 1 month remote to allow for relocation, for exceptional candidates
Not open to any visas — US citizens or Green Card holders only. No sponsorship and no visa transfers of any kind.
Reports to the CTO and co-founder
Education is not filtered at all — no school or degree requirement
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Software Engineer, SDK & Engine Integrations