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Machine Learning Engineer - Entry Level

Jobright.ai
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/4/2026 CLOSED ON 5/4/2026

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Machine Learning Engineer - Entry Level position at Jobright.ai?

Character.ai provides open-ended conversational applications in which users create characters and converse with them. As a Machine Learning Engineer, you will fine-tune AI models, optimize their performance, and contribute to advancements in AI technology.


Responsibilities

  • 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 to understand our model’s performance in the real world.
  • Design sampling algorithms to improve serving efficiency of large generative models.


Qualification


Required

  • At least 1 year working with a top tier Silicon Valley startup
  • Write clear and clean production-facing and training code
  • Strong understanding of modern machine learning techniques (reinforcement learning, transformers, diffusion, autoregression, etc)


Preferred

  • Experience with product experimentation and A/B testing
  • Experience with data pipelines and data infrastructure
  • Experience training large models in a distributed setting
  • Familiarity with ML deployment and orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker, cloud)
  • Publications in relevant academic journals or conferences in the field of machine learning

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