Software Engineer, Character.ai

Core Product

$150-300k

+ Equity

React
CSS
TypeScript
React Native
HTML
Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Menlo Park, CA

Character.ai

AI natural language chatbot

Open for applications

Character.ai

AI natural language chatbot

101-200 employees

B2CArtificial IntelligenceProductivityEntertainment

Open for applications

$150-300k

+ Equity

React
CSS
TypeScript
React Native
HTML
Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Menlo Park, CA

101-200 employees

B2CArtificial IntelligenceProductivityEntertainment

Company mission

To empower everyone with Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

Role

Who you are

  • If you are a skilled software engineer with a deep passion for front end development, design, craft, and you thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity
  • 5+ years of experience as a Front-End or Full-Stack Software Engineer with a strong focus on user experience and design
  • Deep understanding of Typescript, CSS, React, React Native, HTML, and modern front end design patterns and best practices
  • Demonstrated experience with building features and experiences for consumer products
  • Passionate about the pixels, an exceptional eye for detail, and a focus on craft and polish
  • Proven ability to work in a fast-paced development environment and deliver timely results
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

What the job involves

  • We’re looking for a Senior Product Engineer who is genuinely excited about this future and can make significant contributions to our front-end development efforts
  • Develop highly performant, visually appealing, and user-friendly interfaces that push the boundaries of what's possible
  • Enhance and refine our user interface, focusing on engaging our users by fulfilling their needs, desires, and expectations
  • Collaborate closely with the design team to translate visionary concepts into tangible user experiences and product interfaces
  • Establish, evolve, and maintain design foundations, systems, and patterns for the team, setting the bar for product consistency and quality
  • Collaborate with others to define and implement new product features and design patterns
  • Use your expertise with Front End technology and tools to create a positive and engaging experience

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Top investors

Company

Funding (1 round)

Mar 2023

$150m

SERIES A

Total funding: $150m

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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