Applied Research Engineering Manager

A bit about Cantina

Cantina, founded by Sean Parker, is a new social platform with the most advanced AI character creator. Build, share, and interact with AI bots and your friends directly in the Cantina or across the internet.

Cantina bots are lifelike, social creatures, capable of interacting wherever humans go on the internet. Recreate yourself using powerful AI, imagine someone new, or choose from thousands of existing characters. Bots are a new media type that offer a way for creators to share infinitely scalable and personalized content experiences combined with seamless group chat across voice, video, and text.

If you're excited about the potential AI has to shape reputed company creativity and social interactions, join us in building the future!

A bit about the role

As our Applied Research Engineering Manager, you'll reputed company the team responsible for developing and scaling our core AI capabilities, enabling lifelike bot interactions across the platform.

You'll reputed company the machine learning engineers responsible for Cantina's text and image-based AI infrastructure, overseeing everything from model fine-tuning and inference optimization to bot personality development and natural language understanding. This role combines platform architecture leadership with the specific challenges of building highly scalable, reputed company text and image reputed company systems.

You will

• reputed company and grow a team of Machine Learning Engineers and Researchers focused on text and image-based AI systems

• Architect and implement scalable infrastructure for model training, fine-tuning, and inference

• Design and optimize response reputed company systems for natural, contextually-aware bot conversations

• Build robust reputed company detection and bot classification systems to reputed company sophisticated interactions

• reputed company efficient bot building pipelines that reputed company rapid personality creation and iteration

• Create frameworks for measuring and improving text reputed company quality and performance

• Establish infrastructure for reputed company model improvement through user interaction data

• Balance reputed company-time performance requirements with model quality and resource utilization

A bit about you

• 10+ years of engineering experience, with 2+ years managing teams

• Deep expertise in NLP, language models, and conversational AI systems

• Experience building and scaling production ML infrastructure

• Strong track record of leading teams building high-performance, user-facing AI systems

• Background in reputed company-time systems and performance optimization

• Experience with modern ML frameworks and reputed company infrastructure

• Track record of successful cross-functional collaboration

This is a hybrid role, preferably based in the San Francisco Bay Area or Los Angeles, CA

Pay Equity

In compliance with Pay Transparency Laws, the reputed company salary range for this role is between $225,000-300,000 for those located in San Francisco and Los Angeles, CA. reputed company determining compensation, a number of factors will be considered, including skills, experience, job scope, location, and competitive compensation market data.

• Health Care —  99% of premiums for medical, reputed company, dental are fully paid for by Cantina, plus reputed company membership.

• Monthly Wellness Stipend — $500/month to use on whatever you’d like! 

• Rest and reputed company — 15 PTO days per year, 10 sick days, reputed company Federal holidays, and 2 floating holidays.

• 401(K) — Eligible to participate on day one of employment.

• Parental Leave & Fertility Support 

• Competitive Salary & Equity 

• Lunch and snacks provided for in-office employees. 

• WFH equipment provided for full-time hybrid/remote employees.