Staff Software Engineer, Character.ai
Backend
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
- B.A.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 7+ years of industry experience
- Experience splitting out a monolith application into a service oriented architecture
- Track record working with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to land new features for users
- Experience building and managing infrastructure in a cloud environment (GCP, AWS or Azure)
- Experience configuring and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automated testing
- Experience designing production data models for a performant and scalable application
- Strong background in Python
- Experience writing highly performant service in a modern typed language (e.g. Golang)
Desirable
- Experience with defining profobuf and communicating between services with gRPC is highly desired
- Track record building and scaling backend systems to support a fast growing consumer application
- Experience with production AI/ML systems and services including optimizing GPU/TPU deployments
- Experience working with vector databases (e.g. Pinecone, distributed faiss)
What the job involves
- As a Staff Software Engineer - Application at Character, you’ll work cross functionally with design, product and ML researchers to identify, design and implement the next generations of our “runtime stack” - one of the fastest growing consumer applications on the market today
- You will lead implementation of our backend systems to support new parts of our product while working with the Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure role 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 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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