Company · AI-native app · board on Ashby, verified 2026-10-05
What Character.AI hires for
Character.AI lists 13 open roles; 77% of them are technical, and the largest family is Software Eng (4).
Open roles
13
13 new in 7 days
Technical (AI engineering)
77%
10 roles
Posted base (median range)
$200K–$300K
100% publish pay
Bay Area · remote
100% · 0%
Open roles by family
| Role family | Open roles, as a bar | Open roles |
|---|---|---|
| Software Eng | 4 | |
| Program / Ops | 3 | |
| Research Engineer | 3 | |
| Evals / Data | 1 | |
| Safety / Policy | 1 | |
| Infra / Hardware | 1 |
What its technical postings ask for
Share of 10 technical postings that mention each skill; the company's description of itself is not counted.
| Skill | Share, as a bar | Share |
|---|---|---|
| LLMs | 50% | |
| Kubernetes | 50% | |
| Fine-tuning | 30% | |
| RL / post-training | 30% | |
| Python | 30% | |
| Go | 30% | |
| PhD | 30% | |
| Evals | 20% | |
| PyTorch | 20% | |
| TypeScript | 20% | |
| JAX | 10% | |
| Distributed training | 10% | |
| C++ | 10% |
Most recent Character.AI postings
- Technical Program Manager, AI InfrastructureRedwood City, CA · Program / Ops · $220K–$260K base · first seen 2026-09-29
- Staff Data Scientist, MonetizationRedwood City, CA | New York, NY · Evals / Data · $250K–$300K base · first seen 2026-09-29
- Principal Research Engineer, Post-TrainingRedwood City, CA · Research Engineer · $275K–$400K base · first seen 2026-09-29
- Software Engineer, BackendRedwood City, CA · Software Eng · $180K–$300K base · first seen 2026-09-29
- Research Engineer, AI Safety & AlignmentRedwood City, CA · Research Engineer · $225K–$400K base · first seen 2026-09-29
- Software Engineer, MonetizationRedwood City, CA · Software Eng · $150K–$300K base · first seen 2026-09-29
- Software Engineer, Backend/Applied ML (Safety & Integrity)Redwood City, CA · Safety / Policy · $150K–$300K base · first seen 2026-09-29
- Technical Program Manager, Product ExperienceRedwood City, CA · Program / Ops · $200K–$300K base · first seen 2026-09-29
- Research Engineer, Post-Training (All Industry Levels)Redwood City or New York City · Research Engineer · $225K–$400K base · first seen 2026-09-29
- Software Engineer, Applied ML (Discovery, Recommendation & Search)Redwood City, CA · Software Eng · $200K–$300K base · first seen 2026-09-29