Backend Engineer

About RealAvatar:

At RealAvatar we build verified AI Avatars in partnership with Public Figures. We are the Verified Avatar choice in a world of deepfakes & poorly trained chatbots.

Founded by Andrew Ng and his fund AI Fund, and led by Jeff Daniel, RealAvatar is developing quickly in this fast-paced space. Whereas 1st gen chatbot makers like Character.AI and Chai build text/audio chatbots with no visual avatar, RealAvatar builds Visual/Audio/Text Avatars for real-time conversations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and improvement of a multimodal Python pipeline that involves audio, video, and text generation in a low-latency, streaming regime.
• Partner with technical (ML/AI) and product stakeholders to design an effective platform.
• Design, optimization, and management of SQL databases (such as PostgreSQL) and vector datastores (such as Pinecone).
• Design and implement necessary pipeline components to enable new use cases.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of work experience in backend engineering.
• Expertise in Python demonstrated by implementing multiple production-grade projects in frameworks such as Django, Flask, or FastAPI.
• Experience with designing, deploying or implementing a machine learning pipeline that was used by a large number of users.
• Experience with cloud computing (GCP or AWS), Postgres, and data engineering.
• Formal training in Computer Science or an Engineering discipline (Bachelor’s or Master’s).

You Should Be

• Eager to move fast and thrive in a dynamic startup environment and achieve excellence with minimal supervision.
• Be able to deliver high-quality results with a keen eye for detail.
• Collaborative and willing to support others and enhance the collective team performance.
• Have strong verbal and written communication skills and able to articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Excited to automate things, including testing and verification of your work.