Software Engineer, Applied ML (Discovery, Recommendation & Search)

The role

You will work cross functionally with product, data science and data platform to identify, design and implement applied ML models and infra. You will work on implementation of ML backend systems to power discovery surfaces including recommendation, ranking and search.

What you will do

• Identify, design and implement applied ML models and infra
• Work on model optimization, data pipeline to model training and serving infrastructure
• Implement ML backend systems to power discovery surfaces including recommendation, ranking and search
• Support new AI generated content formats on the product
• Work with the team to support optimizing existing systems

Required qualifications

• B.A.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of industry experience
• Experience building/consuming RESTful and gRPC based web-services
• Experience building and managing infrastructure in a cloud environment (GCP, AWS or Azure)
• Familiar with one of the popular ML Frameworks like Pytorch, Tensorflow
• Experience writing highly performant service in a modern typed language
• Experience configuring and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automated testing

Nice to have

• Experience with shipping intelligent features, end-to-end, and from idea to production
• Experience with understanding, designing or implementing a full pipeline from data ingestion to model training
• Experience with production AI/ML systems and services including optimizing GPU/TPU deployments
• Experience working with vector databases or other feature storage

About the company

Character.AI empowers people to connect, learn and tell stories through interactive entertainment. The platform lets users engage with tens of millions of characters, enjoy unlimited conversations, and embark on infinite adventures.