About the roleYou would be a great fit for this role if you are an experienced engineer who will be instrumental in building the world's best LLMs by collecting and refining the essential training data that powers them. In pursuit of the best language models, your responsibility is twofold:First, identify and collect data at the scale required to feed our largest models.
This involves managing a diverse set of sources, including structured and unstructured content from text and multimedia formats. Your engineering expertise is crucial in crafting the infrastructure and tools necessary to efficiently collect and manage petabytes of data.Second, you will experiment with various methods of extracting a balanced and comprehensive training dataset from the raw data.
You will leverage your expertise in data to build datasets reflecting a hypothesis, train models, and evaluate experimental results. Through this experimentation, you will create the training datasets for our largest models.These are critical steps in the construction of AI.
With petabytes of data and numerous design decisions, each step requires careful attention. Expertise in AI is not necessary, but enthusiasm for the space and a track record of adapting to new domains is important.Who we're looking forRequired Experience:5+ years of production software engineering experienceExperience building large-scale data processing pipelines, with tools like PySpark, Beam, or FlinkFamiliarity with Machine Learning and NLP and willingness to learn more on the jobTrack record of adapting to new domains and a desire to use data to improve productsAdditional Desired Experience:ML experience as an ML engineer, Data Scientist, or another similar roleExperience with cloud platforms like AWS or Azure, or tools such as Kubernetes and TerraformPassionate about Conversational AI or large language modelsYou 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.Join our visionary team, on-site 3-5 days a week, at the forefront of next-generation AGI.About Character.AIFounded in 2021 by AI pioneers Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, Character is a leading AI company offering personalized experiences through customizable AI 'Characters.
' As one of the most widely used AI platforms worldwide, Character enables users to interact with AI tailored to their unique needs and preferences.Noam co-invented core LLM tech and was recently honored as one of TIME's 100 Most Influential in AI. Daniel created LaMDA, the breakthrough conversational AI now powering Google's Bard.
In just two years, we achieved unicorn status and were named Google Play's AI App of the Year - a testament to our groundbreaking technology and vision.Ready to shape the future of AGI? At Character, we value diversity and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. As an equal opportunity employer, we firmly uphold a non-discrimination policy based on race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, or disability.
Your unique perspectives are vital to our success.Compensation Range: $150K - $350KLocationMenlo Park, CATypeFull timeDepartmentTechnical Staff - EngineeringCompensation$150K - $350K Offers Equity Top-notch health coverage for you & your family, with majority of the premium covered! We invest in your future on day 1 with a 401(K) match up to 5% of your salary. New parents, we've got you covered with incredible paid leave -up to 20 weeks! 4 weeks PTO to explore, unwind & come back recharged!? Gourmet meals delivered daily via DoorDash & catering while in office
