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Chakra Labs - Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed

$200k - $280k
Full-time

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Compensation: $200,000-$280,000 base + competitive equity. 100% medical/vision/dental, $30/day meal stipend, unlimited PTO, up to $10K relocation.

Location: On-site, Flatiron, Manhattan, New York. Visa: open to transfers and new sponsorships (H1B, TN).

About this role

Forward Deployed Engineer with 2-5 years of experience joining Chakra Labs as a fast-moving generalist who bridges the gap between the platform and what frontier AI lab customers need: shaping data, spinning up dashboards, handcrafting RL tasks and building quick features, on tight timelines at the cutting edge of post-training and agent research.

What will you be doing?

  • Shape data created by human experts to fit the specific requirements of frontier AI lab customers

  • Build quick plugins, features, or temporary improvements to existing data-collection systems

  • Handcraft reinforcement learning task samples tailored to customer needs

  • Spin up customer-facing interfaces like dashboards and portals on short timelines

  • Identify when one-off custom builds should be generalized into the core platform

Tech stack

TypeScript, Python, Go, Vercel, Supabase, AWS, EKS

About Chakra Labs

In collaboration with leading research teams, Chakra Labs builds deterministic, pixel-perfect reinforcement learning environments and trajectory datasets to push capability boundaries. 15 employees, founded 2025, $25M total funding, New York City.

  • 2-5 years of full-stack software engineering in fast-paced environments

  • Fast-moving generalist comfortable with ad hoc customer requests on tight timelines

  • TypeScript, Python, Go; Vercel, Supabase, AWS/EKS

  • On-site in Flatiron, Manhattan, NYC

Vacancy posted 2 days ago
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