AI Anime Researcher - LLM

The role

You will work on an in-house LLM storytelling system for a 3D first-person adventure game. You will define a new video game experience by balancing research exploration with product-focused development.

What you will do

• Define a new kind of video game experience
• Balance research exploration with product-focused development
• Work with research teams to synthesize high-impact needs
• Design and implement technical solutions
• Communicate deliverables and tradeoffs

Required qualifications

• Published or industry experience with LLM post-training
• Deep understanding of LLM training and evaluation
• Experience gathering human feedback through designing RLHF-style voting systems or finding implicit signals in human-AI interaction logs
• Experience with LLM infrastructure including data processing backend, deterministic and checkpointable data loader, sharding, memory saving techniques, scalable benchmarking and checkpoint selection
• Comfortable working on small, fast-paced teams

Nice to have

• Post training work focused on roleplay
• Worked on latency optimization
• Fan of anime and the anime aesthetic

Benefits

• Generous amount of compute

Before you apply

• Visa sponsorships are available for qualified candidates

About the company

Spellbrush is a generative AI studio and the team behind niji・journey. Their mission is to use AI to bring characters to life and push the boundaries of narrative-driven games.