We are now seeking a Head of Operations to refine the running of the business and to help us reach our insane goals as we 4X in size in the next 18 months from 12 to 50 people.

Our people are exceptional, ambitious, and driven to succeed. We thrive in our open and meritocratic culture, where ideas and talent matter more than tenure or title. At Chai you’ll be constantly challenged to exceed past performance: you’ll be given the freedom to operate independently, but also the support you need to grow.

The job will involve:

• Report directly to the CEO, setting operating cadence, ensuring plans and vision are communicated effectively.
• Using your autonomy to solve operational problems, setting up payroll, legal structure and expenses.
• Running hiring processes, references, etc,
• Bring structure to the business.

Why should you apply?

• You can expect excellent growth and advancement opportunities.
• You will be pushed and challenged to perform at your best.
• You will be given the responsibility to run and oversee all people processes.

You will:

• Be highly goal orientated.
• Be experienced in scaling small teams. You have seen teams grow from 10 to 50 people at least once and have a great understanding of how to do it;
• Enjoy working in a fast-paced environment;
• Be self-reflective and keen to grow and develop;

Who we are looking for:

We need an engineering manager with 3+ years of experience in building scalable infrastructure from the ground up, and who can manage and grow our Engineering team from 3 to 10 people within the next year. We need someone who is both reliable and big-picture thinking.

Here's why we might not be the right fit for you:

• We work hard and have a high velocity environment with lots of growth opportunities.
• We value exceptional performance and continuous improvement. We believe that if you aren't constantly learning, you aren't growing.
• You will be responsible and accountable for making high-impact decisions that determine Chai's future

Here are the top 2 reasons why you should join us:

• Exponential growth. 1 Million MAU. Be the 11th hire and get us to 1 billion MAU
• You will be leading a team of Stanford engineers and growing the team

Here is our tech stack:

• Front end: Python, Flutter, Dart
• Back end: Python, GCP, Redis, Kubernetes

Process:

Exceptionally fast, application to offer within 7 days.

1. Apply here
2. First round video interview -> System design interview -> Onsite
3. Reference checks, negotiation and offer

Who we are looking for:

A relentless engineer with 4+ years of experience overseeing and being responsible for front-end. Ensuring good UX, clean code, and maintaining Chai's high standards. You will work alongside equally talented and driven teammates implementing cutting-edge AI inference engines. We need someone who is reliable and has high standards.

Here's why we might not be the right fit for you:

• We work hard and have a high-velocity environment with lots of growth opportunities.
• We value exceptional performance and continuous improvement. We believe that if you aren't constantly learning, you aren't growing.
• You will be responsible and accountable for making high-impact decisions that determine Chai's future

Here are the top 2 reasons why you should join us:

• Exponential growth. 1 Million MAU. Join the team that gets us to 100 million MAU.
• Craftsmanship. Build something beautiful.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree from a leading academic institution.
• 4+ years of experience in front-end engineering.
• Ability to design high quality wireframe and figma.
• Familiar with Django and Python.

Here is our tech stack:

• Front end: Python, Flutter, Dart
• Back end: Python, GCP, Redis, Kubernetes

Process:

Exceptionally fast, application to offer within 7 days.

1. Apply here
2. First round video interview, system design interview, then onsite
3. Reference checks, negotiation, and offer

Who we are looking for:

A relentless engineer with 3+ years of experience overseeing and being responsible for front-end. Ensuring good UX, clean code, and maintaining Chai's high standards. You will work alongside equally talented and driven teammates implementing cutting-edge AI inference engines. We need someone who is reliable and has high standards.

Here's why we might not be the right fit for you:

• We work hard and have a high-velocity environment with lots of growth opportunities.
• We value exceptional performance and continuous improvement. We believe that if you aren't constantly learning, you aren't growing.
• You will be responsible and accountable for making high-impact decisions that determine Chai's future

Here are the top 2 reasons why you should join us:

• Exponential growth. 1 Million MAU. Join the team that gets us to 100 million MAU.
• Craftsmanship. Build something beautiful.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree from a leading academic institution.
• 6+ years of experience in front-end engineering.
• Familiar with Flutter and Python.

Here is our tech stack:

• Front end: Python, Flutter, Dart
• Back end: Python, GCP, Redis, Kubernetes

Process:

Exceptionally fast, application to offer within 7 days.

1. Apply here
2. First round video interview, system design interview, then onsite
3. Reference checks, negotiation, and offer

We are now seeking a Head of Operations to refine the running of the business and to help us reach our insane goals as we 4X in size in the next 18 months from 12 to 50 people.

Our people are exceptional, ambitious, and driven to succeed. We thrive in our open and meritocratic culture, where ideas and talent matter more than tenure or title. At Chai you’ll be constantly challenged to exceed past performance: you’ll be given the freedom to operate independently, but also the support you need to grow.

The job will involve:

• Report directly to the CEO, setting operating cadence, ensuring plans and vision are communicated effectively.
• Using your autonomy to solve operational problems, setting up payroll, legal structure and expenses.
• Running hiring processes, references, etc,
• Bring structure to the business.

Why should you apply?

• You can expect excellent growth and advancement opportunities.
• You will be pushed and challenged to perform at your best.
• You will be given the responsibility to run and oversee all people processes.

You will:

• Be highly goal orientated.
• Be experienced in scaling small teams. You have seen teams grow from 10 to 50 people at least once and have a great understanding of how to do it;
• Enjoy working in a fast-paced environment;
• Be self-reflective and keen to grow and develop;

We are seeking a skilled full stack ML engineer who will straight away be responsible for our entire model training and deployment pipeline. By the end of your first year, success would mean: having personally halved our model inference speed and deployment cost, grown our Engineering team from 2 to 10.

We can move from application to offer within 10 days. Find out more about Chai Research on www.chai-research.com/

Requirements:

• Ability to own problems end-to-end, and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done
• Experience building production software/ML systems at scale, bonus for building production apps at scale
• Comfortable building scalable applications and systems from the ground up, with limited development infrastructure available to you
• Knowing TDD is a big bonus

Here are the top 2 reasons why we are not for you:

• Currently, we only have a team of 5, everything gets super chaotic
• We keep our eyes on the prize, implementing fancy tech for the sake of it does not interest us, whereas iteration speed, user retention, and growth rate does

Here are the top 2 reasons why you should join us:

• Exceptional growth and autonomy, you will be working with a team of results-driven engineers and growing the team
• We are super outcome-focused, everything is geared towards delivering the best product and user experience possible, nothing else matters

Here is our tech stack:

• Front end: Python, Flutter, Dart, React
• Back end: Python, GCP, Redis, Kubernetes, Docker, Gitlab CI/CD

Process:

1. Apply here
2. First round video interview -> Second round panel interview -> Onsite day challenge
3. Reference checks, negotiation and offer

Who we are looking for:

We need a relentless engineer with 3+ years of experience overseeing and being responsible for optimizing our LLMs. Ensuring they are performant, scaleable, and cost-efficient. You will work alongside equally talented and driven teammates implementing cutting-edge AI inference engines. We need someone who is reliable and has high standards.

Here's why we might not be the right fit for you:

• We work hard and have a high velocity environment with lots of growth opportunities.
• We value exceptional performance and continuous improvement. We believe that if you aren't constantly learning, you aren't growing.
• You will be responsible and accountable for making high-impact decisions that determine Chai's future

Here are the top 2 reasons why you should join us:

• Exponential growth. 1 Million MAU. Be the 14th hire and get us to 100 million MAU.
• Craftsmanship. Build something beautiful.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree from a leading academic institution.
• 3+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Familiar with vLLM, quantization, and current techniques of LLM optimization.

Here is our tech stack:

• Front end: Python, Flutter, Dart
• Back end: Python, GCP, Redis, Kubernetes

Process:

Exceptionally fast, application to offer within 7 days.

1. Apply here
2. First round video interview, system design interview, then onsite
3. Reference checks, negotiation, and offer

Who we are looking for:

We need a focused engineer with 3+ years of experience overseeing and maintaining services to be responsible for our cluster of 500+ GPUs. Ensuring they are healthy and running as expected. You will be working alongside equally talented and driven teammates implementing cutting-edge AI inference engines. We need someone who is reliable and has high standards.

Here's why we might not be the right fit for you:

• We work hard and have a high velocity environment with lots of growth opportunities.
• We value exceptional performance and continuous improvement. We believe that if you aren't constantly learning, you aren't growing.
• You will be responsible and accountable for making high-impact decisions that determine Chai's future

Here are the top 2 reasons why you should join us:

• Exponential growth. 1 Million MAU. Be the 14th hire and get us to 100 million MAU.
• Craftsmanship. Build something beautiful.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree from a leading academic institution
• 3+ years of experience in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed ML systems
• Deep knowledge of GCP and Kubernetes
• Knowledge of KServe is strongly preferred

Here is our tech stack:

• Front end: Python, Flutter, Dart
• Back end: Python, GCP, Redis, Kubernetes

Process:

Exceptionally fast, application to offer within 7 days.

1. Apply here
2. First round video interview, system design interview, then onsite
3. Reference checks, negotiation, and offer