Program Manager, Model Capabilities and Data - Menlo Park, United States - Character

Description

About us

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.
Character.

AI
is one of the world's leading personal
AIplatforms. Founded in 2021 by
AIpioneers Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas,

Character.

AI
is a full-stack
AIcompany with a globally scaled direct-to-consumer platform. As of 2023 that platform was #2 in the space in user engagement.

Character.

AI

is uniquely centered around people, letting users personalize their experience by interacting with
AI"Characters." The company achieved unicorn status in 2023 and was named Google Play's
AIApp of the Year.

Noam co-invented the key tech powering LLMs and was recently named to TIME100's Most Influential People in
AIlist.

TIME called him "one of the most important and impactful people of the space's past, present, and future." Daniel created and led LaMDA, the breakthrough conversational tech project currently powering Bard.

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About the Role

As a Program Manager, you will play a pivotal role in Character's research and product flywheel by leading data sourcing, operations and development.

You will partner with internal and external teams across research, product and domain-specializations to develop and drive operational excellence in our flywheel.

You will be responsible for designing and delivering high-quality, high-throughput and diverse domain specific data and will own the integrity and process in your domain.

You will also contribute to and influence how we use data to shape model behaviors and product-development. You will become fluent in one or multiple domains and lead strategic and innovative product development, market research and user engagement to expand the depth and breadth of

Character.

AI
towards our mission to Artificial General Intelligence.

You will be a good fit if you are a seasoned program manager with a deep passion for empowering others with AGI, an obsession with data integrity, strong leadership and communication skills, and a proactive, "get things done" mindset.

Specialization Tracks

Coding:

In the Coding track, you will use your deep understanding of software development and computer science to push the programming abilities, technical robustness and alignment of our models.

Science:

In the Science track, you will help guide the development of data collection, annotation, and generation strategies in scientific disciplines.

You will craft training guidelines to enhance our model's ability to process and interpret data in a manner that mirrors scientific reasoning and discovery across multiple scientific disciplines.

Your work will bridge the gap between complex scientific concepts and practical
AIapplications.


Humanities:

In the Humanities track, you will lead the effort to infuse human culture, history, ethics, and philosophy into our
AImodels.

Collaborating closely with interdisciplinary teams, you will enrich our models with a perspective that honors the breadth and depth of human knowledge and experience.

Multimodal:
In the Multimodal track, you will help advance our multimodal future.

You will partner closely with our Multimodal, Product teams and Data Partners to integrate modalities and drive our multimodal research and product initiatives.

Your work will help make our models more versatile and integrated into daily life.


Trust & Safety:
In the T&S track, you will help keep Character a safe and fun platform.

You will partner closely with our T&S, research engineering, moderation and product teams as well as internal and external data annotation to align projects with organizational goals and develop innovative solutions to enhance dataset quality and platform security.

Your work will improve the safety and alignment of our products.

Responsibilities
Design, manage, and execute plans to develop new model behavior through data collection, annotation, and generation

Dive into the data to identify user insights and performance in target capabilities

Develop metrics and collaborate to develop evaluations to track the performance of data on new capabilities

Contribute to the development of our tooling, process and ontology and ensure it is closely aligned with our research roadmap

Collaborate with product and engineering to shape new model capabilities into the product

Minimum Requirements
BS degree in a quantitative field; MS/PhD preferred

2+ years experience working in the frontier of science, technology and business

Detail-oriented with executive maturity and the ability to influence, communicate and lead initiatives at all levels of the organization.

Working knowledge of SQL and Python

Detailed understanding and passion in cutting-edge ML and
AIincluding: data, modalities, prompt engineering, product development and current research challenge

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.

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