Software Engineer, Applied ML (Discovery, Recommendation & Search) is open at Character.AI in Redwood City, CA (hybrid). The posting gives a salary of $200K - $300K. Posted on Dec 18, 2025, and still on Character.AI’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
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. You will work on implementation of our ML backend systems to power…
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