Staff Software Engineer, Character.ai
Platform
AI natural language chatbot
Job no longer available
AI natural language chatbot
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower everyone with Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
Role
Who you are
- Expertise with Data Platform architecture and big data tools (Spark, Apache Beam, Ray, PubSub/Kafka, etc)
- Solid understanding of Spark and ability to write, debug and optimize Spark code. Apache Spark on K8s a plus
- Experience building production systems and data pipelines in languages like Python, SQL, Go, Java, Scala
- 5+ years experience with Kubernetes. Experience as a Cluster Administrator a plus
- Experience with production cloud networking, service meshes (istio), CNIs (cilium, eBPF), and managing contention in shared clusters a plus
What the job involves
- The data platform team at Character seeks to accomplish the following:
- Provide high quality data for analytics and model 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!
- Make our Data Warehouse, Data Lake, and ML Research pipelines a joy to use with your infrastructure expertise, knowledge of big data systems, and keen eye for organization
- Build internal systems for our Product and ML Research teams to manage datasets, run large-scale inference jobs, manage crowdworker data, and anything else under the DataOps umbrella
- Make the most of vast compute resources to enable rapid development of AI products
- Help manage and scale our Kubernetes deployments for training, data engineering, and data acquisition
- Ensure our data platform can scale reliably to the next several orders of magnitude
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.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
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.
Salary benchmarks
We don't have enough data yet to provide salary benchmarks for this role.
Submit your salary to help other candidates with crowdsourced salary estimates.
Share this job
View 16 more jobs at Character.ai