Senior/Staff Mobile Engineer, Character.ai
React Native
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
AI natural language chatbot
Job no longer available
AI natural language chatbot
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower everyone with Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience as a Mobile Software Engineer with a strong focus on user experience and design
- Demonstrated experience in React Native development, showcasing your ability to build compelling mobile applications
- Experience with rapidly scaling consumer-facing applications in the mobile space is highly desired
- Proven ability to work in a fast-paced development environment and deliver timely results
- Demonstrated use of data-driven approaches to experiment, measure success, and iterate for continuous improvement
- Ability to navigate complex technical and product-related issues in mobile development
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with diverse teams and stakeholders
What the job involves
- Develop highly performant, visually appealing, and user-friendly interfaces that push the boundaries of what's possible in mobile applications
- Refine and enhance the user interface to create a highly engaging experience that delights our users and exceeds their expectations
- Collaborate with others to define and implement new product features and design patterns, ensuring seamless integration with our mobile platform
- Utilize your expertise in mobile technologies, specifically React Native, to create positive and engaging experiences for our users
- Develop mobile software for cross-platform implementations, ensuring a consistent and optimized user experience across various devices
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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