Character.AI

Research Engineer, Post-Training (All Industry Levels)

Redwood City or New York CityPosted 34 months agofulltime
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ABOUT THE ROLE AND TEAM Joining us as a Research Engineer on the Post-Training team, you'll be diving into the exciting world of fine-tuning AI models, optimizing their performance, and ensuring they meet the highest standards of quality and efficiency. Your work will directly contribute to our groundbreaking advancements in AI, helping shape an era where technology is not just a tool, but a companion in our daily lives. At Character.AI http://Character.AI, your talent, creativity, and expertise will not just be valued—they will be the catalyst for change in an AI-driven future. The Post-Training team is responsible for developing our powerful pretrained language models into intelligent, engaging, and aligned products. As a Post-Training Researcher, you will work across teams and our technical stack to improve our model performance and training methods, including data, compute and algorithms. You will get to shape the conversational experience of millions of users per day. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Develop alignment algorithms and loss functions to improve data sample efficiency. - Write data pipelines to process diverse web data into a format models can ingest. - Identify quality signals…

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