Senior Analytics Engineer, Character.ai
Office located in Menlo Park, CA
AI natural language chatbot
Job no longer available
AI natural language chatbot
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
Office located in Menlo Park, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower everyone with Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience designing, building, and optimizing data warehouses, data pipelines and/or data architectures at large scale with significant experience in a consumer-facing technology company
- Advanced knowledge of and significant experience with DBT, SQL, and query optimization
- Demonstrated experience partnering and collaborating with internal business stakeholders and engineering teams to meet the data needs of the business
- Proven ability to work collaboratively with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to conceive, design, and implement new features that enhance user experience
- Familiarity with data visualization tools like Superset or Looker
What the job involves
- The data platform team at Character seeks to accomplish the following:
- Provide high quality data for analytics and model training (pre/post-training)
- Remove the accidental complexity of Data Engineering tasks to empower ML Researchers, SWEs, and Data Scientists to move as quickly and confidently as possible
- Make data go vroom while gpus go brrr
- The particular focus for the Senior Analytics Engineer will be to make our Data Warehouse and Data Lake a joy to use by our Data Scientists, Analysts and Product teams
- Work with key stakeholders from these teams to ultimately deliver data and product insights that positively impact business decisions
- Use your dimensional modeling skills and eye for data quality, consistency, and integrity to easily query and draw insights
- Work with our product team and data scientists analyze the success of new features, machine learning improvements, AB tests, and overall user experience
- Collaborate with the data platform team to ingest and clean new sources of data
- Create and maintain ELT workflows with dbt, BigQuery, and Trino to support product and machine learning teams
- Automate manual processes and optimize internal/external data delivering pipelines using Airflow, Metaflow, or similar
Our take
Search engines have long been a boon to productivity, but a long period of heavy advertising, content and SEO spam and malicious actors have limited the effectiveness of traditional keyword searching. Recently, conversational AI assistants have arrived, allowing non-specialists to navigate an increasingly difficult sea of data and return with relevant information, presented in a usable and sometimes very entertaining way.
Character.ai is one of the more recent entries in this increasingly crowded field that has only grown more heated since the public release of ChatGPT in late 2022. However, compared to Microsoft and OpenAI's offerings, Character.ai stands out with a more playful personality - its bots can mimic the voices of celebrities, historical persons and popular characters. This has led to users spending vastly more time interacting with Character.ai's bots compared to the competition: nearly three times longer on average than with ChatGPT, for instance.
Following a period of rapid user growth, Character.ai closed a major funding round at a valuation exceeding $1 billion. While it is currently enjoying meteoric success, in the longer term, Character.ai's challenge is to develop a funding model that will give it the staying power it needs to compete against OpenAI and other major firms in the market. A solution it is currently exploring is research-based partnerships with large companies such as Musk's xAI and Meta.
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Company
Funding (1 round)
Mar 2023
$150m
SERIES A
Total funding: $150m
Company benefits
- Top-notch health coverage for you & your family, with majority of the premium covered
- 💰 We invest in your future with a generous 401(K) contribution
- 🍼 New parents, we've got you covered with incredible paid leave -up to 20 weeks
- 🌴 4 weeks of PTO to explore, unwind & come back recharged
- 🍽️ Daily in-office catering plus a monthly Doordash stipend to help keep you fueled no matter where you are
- ✨ Monthly wellness stipend to support you in your health journey
Company HQ
Menlo Park, CA
Leadership
Karandeep Anand
(CEO)Previously Board Advisor at Character and Brex. Also worked as Vice President and Head of Business Products at Facebook and was a Partner Director at Microsoft.
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