Character.AI · 16 hours ago
Staff Software Engineer, AI Platform
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
7+ years expCharacter.AI is a company that empowers people to connect, learn, and tell stories through interactive entertainment. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer for their AI Platform to support research teams, develop data pipelines, and enhance data infrastructure for AI models.
AppsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIInformation TechnologyMobile AppsSoftware
Responsibilities
Support the research team by building the tooling and datasets that help us train the best models
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
Support our data infrastructure (Spark, Beam, GCP)
Qualification
Required
B.A.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience
7+ years minimum experience in data engineering within a consumer-facing technology company
Experience building data warehousing and data pipelines with Big Query, dbt, Ray, Beam and Spark
Experience with ML/LLMs
In-depth experience building and managing infrastructure in a cloud environment (esp. GCP)
Strong Python and SQL experience
Preferred
Experience setting up containerization with Docker and Kubernetes
Familiarity with PyTorch
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
Company
Character.AI
Character.ai provides open-ended conversational applications in which users create characters and converse with them.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$150.08MKey Investors
Andreessen Horowitz
2023-03-23Series A· $150M
2023-01-24Seed· $0.08M
Leadership Team
Karandeep Anand
CEO
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