Staff Software Engineer, Character.ai
Applied Machine Learning
$150-350k
+ Equity
Office located in Menlo Park, CA
AI natural language chatbot
Open for applications
AI natural language chatbot
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$150-350k
+ Equity
Office located in Menlo Park, CA
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower everyone with Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
Role
Who you are
- B.A.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of industry experience
- Experience building/consuming RESTful and gRPC based web-services
- Experience building and managing infrastructure in a cloud environment (GCP, AWS or Azure)
- Familiar with one of the popular ML Frameworks like Pytorch, Tensorflow
- Experience writing highly performant service in a modern typed language
- Experience configuring and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automated testing
Desirable
- Experience with shipping intelligent features, end-to-end, and from idea to production
- Experience with understanding, designing or implementing a full pipeline from data ingestion to model training
- Experience with production AI/ML systems and services including optimizing GPU/TPU deployments
- Experience working with vector databases or other feature storage
What the job involves
- As a Software Engineer you will work cross functionally with product, data science, data platform and ML researchers to identify, design and implement the applied ML infra, ranging from the data pipeline to model training and serving infrastructure, on one of the fastest growing consumer applications on the market today
- You will lead implementation of our ML backend systems to support new parts of our product while working with the team to support scaling our existing systems
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 will need 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 HQ
Menlo Park, CA
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Leadership
Noam Shazeer
(CEO)Previously worked at Google for almost 20 years as a Software Engineer then Principal Software Engineer.
Daniel De Freitas
(President)Before co-founding Character.ai was a Senior Staff Software Engineer for Google. Prior to that, they were a Software Engineer at Microsoft.
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