Staff Software Engineer, Character.ai
Data Engineer
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
- 4+ years of industry experience
- Experience building data pipelines: Kafka, Spark, Beam, logical replication and/or Datastream
- Experience designing, implementing and using end-to-end A/B testing frameworks, data warehouses and data lakes
- In-depth experience building and managing infrastructure in a cloud environment (GCP, AWS or Azure)
- Strong Python and SQL experience
Desirable
- Experience tuning databases and optimizing query performance
- Experience setting up containerization with Docker and Kubernetes
- Familiarity with PyTorch or JAX
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Experience writing and maintaining Golang and Terraform code
What the job involves
- As a Staff Software Engineer - Data Engineering at Character, you'll have the opportunity to work on a diverse and exciting set of projects spanning both software engineering and data engineering domains
- Your initial focus will be on three key areas:
- Activate our "data flywheel": Develop data pipelines and collaborate with ML researchers to ensure continuous improvement of our AI models and alignment with human feedback
- Evolve our A/B testing framework: Conduct a thorough analysis of our current A/B testing framework and prepare it for the next generation of data-driven product growth
- Enable product team insights: Design, implement, and maintain a robust data warehousing solution for consistent and reliable reporting and ease of data exploration as we continue to better understand our users
- In addition, you may work on optimizing database and application performance, cleaning pre-training datasets, and contributing to service oriented architecture alongside the Staff Software Engineer - Application
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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