# Software Engineer, Applied ML (Discovery, Recommendation & Search) at Character.AI

- Company: Character.AI
- What the company does: Backed by Lightspeed and a16z.
- Company website: https://character.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Redwood City, CA
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $200K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2025-12-18
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/character/3cfa1472-4f6d-46fa-bd08-f6de0833a53f
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/character-ai-software-engineer-applied-ml-discovery-recommendation-and-search/

## About the role

As a Software / ML Engineer you will work cross functionally with product, data science and data platform to identify, design and implement the applied ML models and infra, ranging from the model optimization, data pipeline to model training and serving infrastructure, on one of the fastest growing native AI consumer applications on the market today.

## What they're looking for

- 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

Tags: Technical Staff - Engineering