- About Brilliant
Brilliant's
mission is to create a world of better problem solvers. We make games
for learning in math, science, computer science, and data analysis, for
iOS, Android, and web. On Brilliant, you learn by doing – there are no
videos, everything is interactive. We get you hands-on, figuring things
out on your own. We help learners develop intuition through interaction,
build understanding through experimentation, and have fun.
We
serve hundreds of thousands of paid subscribers, and we’re hoping you
might be the right person to contribute to accelerating our footprint to
millions of customers (and changed lives). In addition to what’s below,
you can see all open roles and learn more about our team culture on our
careers page.
We
have always prioritized building a healthy business as the backbone of
achieving our mission. We are default alive (will be profitable before
needing to raise), don't over-hire, are growing new customers at an
exciting pace (high double-digits year-over-year). Our investors are
top-tier + mission aligned, and we’ve kept our valuations tethered to
reality – we aren’t playing “catch up” like many others.
In
our day-to-day, we value adventure, excellence, generosity, and candor.
We are optimists in the face of uncertainty, we take pride in our work,
we go the extra mile for each other, and we tell it like it is (the
good and the bad). We’re all here to do the best work of our lives
together, and have a lot of fun along the way.
We
believe that real-time collaboration and human connection are necessary
ingredients in building a high-velocity, creatively-oriented consumer
product. We maintain core hours (10am - 3pm Pacific) where everyone is
online, regardless of timezone. Over half of us are located near our
hubs in SF and NYC, and folks outside of those cities travel to attend
team offsites once-per-quarter.
The Role
Engineers
at Brilliant work in small, elite teams alongside colleagues from
Product, Design, and Content. As an interactive engineer, you’ll build
games that teach.
Our games blend thoughtful
mechanics, intuitive level design, and deep pedagogical insights. Each
game is driven by APIs designed for experts and LLMs where every
possible configuration is guaranteed to be a correct, solvable, and
meaningful puzzle. It's a tricky technical problem with a big payoff for
our learners.
Solving this technical challenge
enables us to build effective and engaging learning games at scale,
helping our learners to get the reps they need to achieve mastery. With
your help, we'll build the next 1,000 learning games to teach all of
STEM.
Check out these blog posts to learn more:- Hand-crafted, machine-made: How we make learning games with AI- When “almost right” is catastrophically wrong: Evals for AI learning games
Responsibilities
- Develop new educational games that captivate learners and make foundational concepts addictive to master.
- Expand our world-class universe of interactive building blocks designed to be composed in the next generation of learning games.
- Build clear and expressive APIs designed for experts and AIs.
- Own
the technical implementation of games from idea to launch on a
cross-functional team that trusts you to do what's right for our users
but is there to support you when you need it.
- Write simple, robust, readable code that teammates and future engineers can easily maintain and extend.
- Contribute
to a culture of excellence within your pod, setting high standards for
candor and mutual accountability, and striking a careful balance between
velocity and quality.
- Frequently ask: How does this impact our learners?
Who are you?
- You
have at least 3 years of professional experience in web-focused
software engineering, ideally with meaningful experience in one or more
of game development, animation, or interactive media.
- You’re motivated by building robust, maintainable, AI-interoperable software systems that drive user and business outcomes.
- You believe in using the right tool for the job — even when it’s an unfamiliar one, and especially when it's a boring one.
- You
enjoy solving technical challenges in a way simple enough for an intern
to understand and build upon. You avoid introducing complex, novel, or
"clever" solutions. You write code for humans and LLMs to comprehend.
- You
have a favorite product and can articulate your perspective on what
makes using it delightful. You often think about how the products you
use could be better.
- You're constantly tinkering with AI tools and workflows and have used them to achieve surprising new levels of productivity.
- Lack
of experience in a specific technology is never disqualifying, but
experience with Elm or other functional programming languages would
allow you to hit the ground running.
$145,000 - $220,000 a yearPlus stock options.Our Engineering Team
Brilliant's
engineering team is small, elite, and AI-enabled. We believe in moving
fast, fixing faster, and optimizing for outcomes over outputs. Our team
is full of former founders, early employees, and engineering leaders
turned ICs whose collective drive, judgement, and standards generate a
palpable sense of momentum every day. The norm on this team is doing the
very best work of our careers, and we both support and challenge each
other every day to do exactly that.
Compensation and Benefits
We
use a systematic compensation framework: salary scales are set each
year for each job vertical, managers level folks on their team, and
those levels are mapped directly to our compensation scales. A
location-based adjustment is applied outside of SF and NYC (typically
5-10%) - feel free to ask us about your location!
Given the systematic approach, we always make First and Best offers
- there is no negotiation (for new hires nor our existing teammates).
This ensures people are paid based on their expected contribution, not
their negotiation skills.
We
offer top-notch health care plans, with 100% of the premiums covered
for medical, dental, and vision for employees. About 1/3 of our team are
parents, and we provide generous parental leave + up to $1900/mo in
dependent healthcare coverage.
We
offer flexible PTO, with a norm of taking off about 6 weeks per year
(including federal holidays). We also provide home office equipment, a
professional development stipend, and free food at our offices.
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