The Role
About Arcade
Arcade is the world’s first AI product marketplace, where everything that can be dreamed of can be made. Our mission is to create magical and social shopping experiences for people everywhere, using unparalleled design-to-manufacturing AI technologies. Arcade enables anyone to design, purchase, and sell custom, manufacturable products with a simple text prompt.
Arcade matches consumers with a community of independent makers who can bring their dreams to life, using the power of AI to enable communication. Arcade aims to redefine commerce by offering unprecedented personal choice, expression, and meaning in product creation. We’re using AI to empower anyone to design a product, and feel the profound experience of wearing or using a product that is an expression of their unique vision.
Arcade is led by Mariam Naficy, who has 25+ years of entrepreneurial experience in e-commerce, creator communities, and make-on-demand manufacturing (Eve.com, Minted).
Arcade is based in San Francisco and has recently closed a Series A, led by Canaan and co-led by Forerunner. In total, the company has raised $42M in funding, including from Reid Hoffman, Offline Ventures, Sound Ventures, Inspired Capital, and Adverb Ventures. Angel investors include Sol Bier, Christy Turlington Burns, Elad Gil, Colin Kaepernick, Karlie Kloss, Eugenia Kuyda, David Luan, Kelly Wearstler, Jeff Wilke, and Sharon Zhou.
Arcade is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity, inclusion and equity.
Overview of Role
We are seeking an Applied AI Engineer to join our growing team and help advance our generative AI capabilities. This role blends hands-on model development with integration of cutting-edge AI techniques into production systems. You’ll contribute to research, model experimentation, and implementation working closely with cross-functional teams to bring AI-driven products to life.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with engineering and product teams to train and fine-tune machine learning models, including diffusion models, LLMs, and other emerging generative architectures
- Develop tools and pipelines that support scalable, efficient, and production-ready AI systems
- Collect, clean, and analyze large-scale datasets to improve model performance and reliability
- Deploy and maintain AI models in production environments, ensuring scalability, reliability, and efficiency
- Design and deploy text-to-image models and LLM-based applications, including advanced prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and multi-component workflows
- Maintain and monitor deployed models in cloud-based production environments
- Stay current with developments in generative AI, contribute to the research environment, and apply new developments to enhance pipeline performance
- Communicate technical concepts clearly across technical and non-technical audiences
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, AI/ML, or a related field
- Strong proficiency in Python and familiarity with Linux environments; hands-on experience with machine learning libraries like PyTorch, TensorFlow,, etc.
- Strong fundamentals in machine learning concepts, with a deep understanding of algorithms and their underlying mechanics ("under the hood")
- Familiarity with training, fine-tuning, and evaluating models, especially with large-scale datasets
- Familiarity with data preprocessing, cleaning, and feature engineering
- Awareness of recent developments in generative AI, diffusion models, and LLMs
- Familiarity with cloud platforms and deploying AI models in cloud-based environments
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical thinking skills with close attention to detail
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills in a fast-paced and collaborative environment.
Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
Arcade is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to inclusion and diversity. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives and will consider all qualified applicants for employment in accordance with all state, local, and federal laws.
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The Company
What We Do
Arcade is the world’s first AI product creation platform, enabling anyone to design, purchase, and sell custom, manufacturable products with a simple text or image prompt. Co-founded by Mariam Naficy, Arcade brings together the power of generative AI with a global network of top artisans to turn user ideas into personalized, physical products in a quantity of one. Arcade aims to redefine commerce by offering unprecedented personal choice, expression, and meaning in product creation.
