Senior/Staff Product Engineer (Creative Tools)

Role Summary

About Flick

Flick is defining the future interface for AI-native filmmaking. Think Figma and Cursor, but for creating AI films. Founded by Ray Wang (engineer who built Instagram Stories) and Zoey Zhang (award-winning filmmaker). Well-funded by top VCs including Y Combinator, Google Ventures, True Ventures, and Lightspeed.

Founding product engineer working at the intersection of engineering, design, and filmmaking. Shape how people create films with AI. Work directly with founders on product strategy.

Responsibilities

• Design and build product features end-to-end across frontend and backend systems
• Rapidly prototype and iterate on new creative workflows with tight feedback loops
• Work closely with founders on product direction, UX decisions, and feature prioritization
• Translate ambiguous ideas into intuitive, high-quality user experiences
• Continuously refine interaction details, polish, and usability
• Help define the future of AI-native creative tools

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience
• Strong full-stack engineering skills (React, TypeScript, backend frameworks)
• Exceptional product sense and attention to UX details
• Experience building creative tools with ability to become an expert in creative technology in AI video production
• Strong intuition for creating simple, powerful, and delightful products
• Startup mindset: high ownership, high agency, high velocity

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Love for films and art
• Personal creative background (filmmaker, video editor, animator, designer, or similar)
• Experience in AI video generation
• Founder experience
• Open-source contributions and coding outside of regular work

Salary

• $100,000 – $200,000 / year + 0.10% – 1.00% equity
• Visa sponsorship available

About the Company

ABOUT MOONLAKE

Moonlake is building the frontier of interactive world models: systems that generate, simulate, and reason over 3D environments for embodied AI, robotics and gaming. We develop the simulation infrastructure to build worlds (e.g., assets, scenes, digital twins) at scale.

Our team sits at the intersection of

Moonlake is building the next generation of AI infrastructure for interactive digital worlds. Our mission is to enable anyone to create, simulate, and interact with rich environments using natural language and multimodal inputs, turning simple ideas into worlds with structure, logic, and agents that can perceive and act.

Our team has raised $28M in seed funding from NVIDIA Ventures, Threshold Ventures, AIX ventures and notable angels including Naval Ravikant and Jeff Dean to build the foundational layer for the future of AI - powering everything from creative tools and games to robotics training, simulations, and digital twins. Our goal is to make building and experimenting with these environments as accessible and scalable as publishing video on the internet.

We are looking for exceptional research engineers and applied researchers to help push the frontier of interactive AI.

Embodied AI

Robotics simulation

Interactive 3D worlds

World models

Real-time generation

AI infrastructure