Infrastructure Engineer
Listed on 2026-10-08
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Software Development
Software Engineer, AI Engineer (Applied/Software)
Infrastructure Engineer
About CHAI AICHAI is a social AI platform where millions of people create, share, and talk to AI characters. As of Sep 2026, it has 10 million active users and $100 million ARR. After receiving over $55M in funding from investors such as AMD and Core Weave, CHAI AI is actively hiring engineers to expand its team.
About the teamEngineering is 15–20 people with a flat structure. High impact on the product, fast iteration, and clear metrics to measure against.
What you will work onOwn the infra that keeps everything running — deployment, monitoring, GPU cluster management, CI/CD. A team that ships fast can't afford downtime.
You might thrive in this role if you...- 2+ years of software engineering experience
- High motivation and talented.
- High ownership: comfortable with ambiguity, able to define the problem and the plan rather than execute a predefined spec.
- Able to work in person at our Palo Alto Office.
Top pay AI startup in Bay Area. $450,000 – $645,000, paid 100% in cash.
We benchmark against total comp at Meta, Google, and OpenAI — and pay that number in cash, not equity, with the option to trade a portion of cash for stock options.
Health, 401k, unlimited PTO.
Our interview processWe run a fast process - an offer can be given within 7 days of first contact.
- 20 minute phone screen with our founder or engineer
- 20 minute personality assessment
- Take home assessment. 60-90 minutes to complete.
- One day onsite interview.
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