Director of Core Platform Engineering

Arcade is building the world’s first AI physical product creation platform, where imagination becomes reality. Our platform lets anyone design, purchase, and sell custom, manufacturable products using natural language and generative AI. We believe everyone should have the power to create physical goods as easily as they post online, and we’re building the infrastructure to make that real for both consumers and businesses.

We’ve raised $42M from a world-class group of investors, including Reid Hoffman, Forerunner Ventures (Kirsten Green), Canaan Partners (Laura Chau), Adverb Ventures (April Underwood), Factorial Funds (Sol Bier), Offline Ventures (Brit Morin), Sound Ventures (Ashton Kutcher), Inspired Capital (Alexa von Tobel), and Torch Capital (Jonathan Keidan). Our angel investors include Elad Gil, Ev Williams, Marissa Mayer, Sara Beykpour, Kayvon Beykpour, Anna Veronika Dorogush, Eugenia Kuyda, David Luan, Sharon Zhou, Kelly Wearstler, Karlie Kloss, Colin Kaepernick, Christy Turlington Burns, and Jeff Wilke.

Arcade is headquartered in San Francisco’s Presidio and led by serial entrepreneur Mariam Naficy (Minted, Eve), and a mission-driven team from Google, Apple, Stability AI, Glean, NVIDIA, Databricks, LinkedIn, Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, and more. Arcade’s Chief AI Officer is Varun Jampani, a leading researcher who co-authored Dreambooth and created Stable Diffusion 3.5, among other things. Raghudeep Gadde, Head of Research at Arcade, was formerly a Principal Scientist at Amazon. Together, we’re pioneering a new category at the intersection of AI, personal expression, and on-demand manufacturing, and we’re building fast.

We’re early and moving fast. The core platform is the backbone of Arcade: order management, fulfillment pipelines, pricing engine, and manufacturer operations that sit underneath everything we ship. We need someone to own this system end to end — and make it robust, scalable, and built to last.

We’re hiring a Director of Core Platform Engineering to own Arcade’s mission critical commerce and operations infrastructure. This is a leadership role – you’ll work directly with our CEO and product leadership, and be the point person in charge of architecting, implementing, and evolving this system to scale to millions of end users.

• Expert-level proficiency in Typescript and/or Python.

• Familiarity with scaled GPU inference infrastructure.

• Background in multi-tenant SaaS, subscription/metering systems, or volume pricing engines.

• Interest in design, art, or physical goods — Arcade lives at the intersection of all three.

• Compensation: Top-of-market base salary plus meaningful early-stage equity — a level of ownership you cannot get at a large company.

• Ownership: You will own the system that every order flows through. As the platform scales, your architecture and technical decisions will directly shape the company's future.

• Mentorship: Direct collaboration with Mariam Naficy (CEO, founder of Minted and Eve) and Michael Mader (Head of Product), plus access to senior advisors who have built commerce systems at scale.

• Learning velocity: Twelve months at Arcade will teach you more than three years anywhere else. We mean that literally.

• Mission: You’ll help artists and makers build real businesses on top of AI — not help advertisers target more people. That matters.

• Competitive compensation

• Lunch provided daily

• Company events

Arcade is an equal opportunity employer. We’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and supportive team, and to creating a platform where anyone, anywhere, can make something meaningful.