Software Engineer, AI Platform (All Industry Levels)

About the Role

As a Software Engineer - AI Platform at Character, you'll have the opportunity to work on a diverse and exciting set of projects spanning both software engineering and data for AI domains. Your initial focus will be on three key areas:

• 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).

Requirements

• B.A.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 5+ 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

Desired Experience

• 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

You will be a good fit if you are proactive and have a "get things done" mindset. Given our current pace of growth and load on our systems, most people have had a significant impact during their first week at the company.