# Technical Program Manager, Model Alignment and Deployment 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: Senior
- Location: Redwood City, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $220K to $260K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-06-01
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/character/091a6ad6-75dd-4dd4-9439-7e1e9d13970b
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/character-ai-technical-program-manager-model-alignment-and-deployment/

## About the role

Model Alignment and Deployment is a critical, cross-functional effort spanning our Post-Training, Safety Engineering, Trust & Safety, ML Infra/Model Serving, and User Experience Research (UXR) teams. Together, these groups are responsible for transforming powerful pretrained language models into intelligent, engaging, safely aligned, and highly scalable products—working across data, compute, algorithms, infrastructure, and user insights to improve model performance and ensure reliable delivery.

Tags: Safety