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Character.AI · 3 months ago

Staff Data Scientist, Trust & Safety

positionNew York, NY
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
senioritySenior Level, Lead/Staff
money$180K/yr - $300K/yr
date7+ years exp

Character.AI is building the future of open-ended interactions between people and intelligent agents, and they are seeking a talented Data Scientist to shape the user experience of their AI entertainment products. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to design user-centered solutions, focusing on safety metrics and online harms derived from user-centric data.

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H1B Sponsor Likelynote

Responsibilities

Support our Safety team across a number of product areas
Focus on our two-side ecosystem of Creators and Users that together create the Characters and experiences that power the platform

Qualification

Data science leadershipTrust & safety experienceEcosystems data scienceB2C/C2C marketplace experienceHigh velocity experimentation

Required

Have 7+ years of experience at data science leadership at chat, social media, or UGC product companies
Have 2+ years of experience as a data scientist supporting the trust & safety function
Have a strong intuition for choosing the right questions to ask and quickly driving to key insights
Excel at turning findings into actionable next steps and working with engineering to execute
Enjoy leaning into high velocity experimentation
Are capable of standing up Character.AI's data science efforts, including the tools and systems that you will need to work effectively as we scale

Preferred

Ecosystems data science or B2C/C2C marketplace experience

Company

Character.AI

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Character.ai provides open-ended conversational applications in which users create characters and converse with them.
dateFounded in 2021
location
Menlo Park, California, USA
people-size51-200 employees
web-link
https://character.ai

H1B Sponsorship

Character.AI has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2025 (9)
2024 (16)
2023 (6)
2022 (1)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$150.08M
Key Investors
Andreessen Horowitz
2023-03-23Series A· $150M
2023-01-24Seed· $0.08M

Leadership Team

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Karandeep Anand
CEO
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