Senior Analytics Engineer at Character AI

Character’s mission is to empower everyone with AGI. Our vision is to enable people with our technology so that they can use Character.AI any moment of any day.

Achieving our mission will require solving ambitious technical challenges, including engineering, research, and design, and we are assembling a world-class team to do so. Our founding team includes AI pioneers from Google Brain and Meta Research whose research has led to major breakthroughs in natural language understanding and dialog applications such as Transformers and Google LaMDA.

Check out our beta to get a glimpse into the future.

The data platform team at Character seeks to accomplish the following: 

1. Provide high quality data for analytics and model training (pre/post-training)

2. Remove the accidental complexity of Data Engineering tasks to empower ML Researchers, SWEs, and Data Scientists to move as quickly and confidently as possible.

3. Make data go vroom while gpus go brrr

The particular focus for the Senior Analytics Engineer will be to make our Data Warehouse and Data Lake a joy to use by our Data Scientists, Analysts and Product teams.  Work with key stakeholders from these teams to ultimately deliver data and product insights that positively impact business decisions.

Responsibilities: 

• Use your dimensional modeling skills and eye for data quality, consistency, and integrity to easily query and draw insights.

• Work with our product team and data scientists analyze the success of new features, machine learning improvements, AB tests, and overall user experience.

• Collaborate with the data platform team to ingest and clean new sources of data.

• Create and maintain ELT workflows with dbt, BigQuery, and Trino to support product and machine learning teams

• Automate manual processes and optimize internal/external data delivering pipelines using Airflow, Metaflow, or similar 

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience designing, building, and optimizing data warehouses, data pipelines and/or data architectures at large scale with significant experience in a consumer-facing technology company

• Advanced knowledge of and significant experience with DBT (https://www.getdbt.com/), SQL, and query optimization

• Demonstrated experience partnering and collaborating with internal business stakeholders and engineering teams to meet the data needs of the business.

• Proven ability to work collaboratively with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers to conceive, design, and implement new features that enhance user experience.

• Familiarity with data visualization tools like Superset or Looker.

You 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.

Character is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We value diversity and encourage applicants from a range of backgrounds to apply.