Here at Charisma, we’re shaping the future of interactive entertainment, where players can have conversations with the characters using AI.

Now we’re searching for a passionate full-stack engineer to join our growing team, who can bring their strong technical experience building web platforms to expand Charisma’s capabilities.

To give you a flavour of where Charisma is currently being used, our previous and current partners include the likes of Warner Bros, Sky, NBC Universal and numerous games studios around the world.

This role is very much hands-on, diving deep into codebases to create new features or improve existing code.

Being responsible for implementing new features in Charisma

Refining requirements with the team, developing, testing and releasing

Identifying and suggesting resolutions for technical debt.

Driving the use of new technologies and practices into the team, including integrating new generative technology

Communicating updates to core Charisma tech clearly to relevant stakeholders

Have strong technical experience with TypeScript, React, Node.js and Next.js

Be familiar with GraphQL, Postgres, Redis

Be familiar with using testing frameworks like Jest and Cypress

Be familiar with CI, DevOps, tooling and hosting with cloud services (such as AWS, Docker, Pulumi, Heroku)

Be delivery oriented, giving the team confidence to ship often with confidence

Be confident in expanding feature requirements and gathering feedback on new features

Experienced in building and architecting web platforms, with a good knowledge of common patterns/tech like databases, storage, serverful/serverless, and able to weigh up pros and cons

Find fun new ways to showcase how AI can support creativity

Equally passionate about digital humans, the metaverse, and conversational tech

An interest in Unity, Unreal, open-source, and Unix would be very useful

Either remote or hybrid working at our Oxford office, with a flexible working environment - results are more important than hours on the clock

New and exciting challenges mean we encourage a shared learning environment to help you develop new skills

A knowledge base of event attendance, access to industry experts worldwide, and creative technology sandboxes

A competitive salary aligned to your experience

Our vision is to enable players to walk into a world of characters and be part of a cohesive narrative where the gameplay is to talk to the characters, develop a relationship with them and change the story. If you think you can help us achieve this, we’d love to hear from you!

For more details and to apply, please contact jobs@charisma.ai

We're looking for a talented and creative Machine Learning Engineer to help us bring our characters and virtual beings to life!

At Charisma, you'll be responsible for building and deploying models which could lie in a myriad of areas, including text generation, sentiment analysis, entity polarity analysis, sentence relation extraction, emotion classification, intent classification, and speech analysis.

You'll help us build a world-class team and lead machine learning development for the Charisma platform. We'd love you to be enthusiastic about applying machine learning to difficult problems in the conversational and multi-modal spaces to keep our characters one step ahead of our players' imaginations.

Developing, training, testing and validating ML models to give our characters and authors deeper understanding of what players are saying and doing

Creating and cleaning datasets to train models with

Deploying ML models for inference in the cloud in a scalable and performant way, or on-device for privacy and speed

Exploring the state-of-the-art in NLP/NLU

Exploring how best to implement and productise models into our authoring platform Charisma, requiring great UX skills

Extensive experience with one or more ML frameworks (TensorFlow, Torch, Keras)

A knack for identifying good candidate model features from input data

Experience in optimising models, such as quantising/weight reduction with TensorFlow Lite

Developed some of the above-mentioned models before

A vision of how to apply technology to fully immerse players in conversational experiences

An interest in virtual beings, the metaverse, conversational tech, psychology and AI

A flexible working environment - results are more important than hours on the clock

Occasional in-person meetings at our Oxford office as and when required

A competitive salary aligned with your experience

Our vision is to enable players to walk into a world of characters, and be part of a cohesive narrative where the gameplay is to talk to the characters, develop a relationship with them and change the story.

If you think you can help us achieve this, we'd love to hear from you!

Charisma supports a flexible work environment, and the role would suit someone who can work independently, as well as in a team.

For more details and to apply, please contact jobs@charisma.ai.

We’re looking for a talented and creative Unity Engine artist/developer to help us bring our characters and virtual beings to life!

Here at Charisma, we’re shaping the future of interactive entertainment, where players can have conversations with the characters using AI. And now we’re searching for someone to add to our growing team who can bring their Unity expertise to build games and experiences that showcase our conversation tech.

While most of this role will be focused on increasing the quality of 3D character animations (emotion-driven facial animation, full body animation, and lip sync), we’re also looking for someone with an artistic flair who can help us get the most out of our environments by using lighting, post-processing, particles and VFX.

You’ll be investigating, implementing and tweaking...

Animation systems and clips for full-body and facial animations for our characters

Lip sync solutions for both static and dynamic speech clips

IK systems to give characters more of a presence in the world

Lighting and post-processing of environments

Making the worlds feel real by contributing to game design

Deeply experienced using Unity and 3D engines

Experienced with animating and building 3D characters and worlds

Excited about digital humans, the metaverse, and conversational tech

If you think you can help us achieve this, we’d love to hear from you!

Here at Charisma, we’re shaping the future of interactive entertainment, where players can have conversations with NPCs using the latest GPT and NLP technologies.

We’re searching for a Lead Game Developer to add to our growing team, who can bring their strong technical experience in Unreal Engine, and with an understanding of Unity as a bonus, to build unique games and experiences.

This is an exciting time to join our well-established gaming studio, as we embark on a new project for an innovative, future tech initiative. To give you some flavour, our previous and current partners include the likes of Warner Bros, Sky, NBC Universal and numerous games studios around the world.

Leading the end-to-end game development for an innovative Unity3D game build

Developing efficient workflows and production processes for successful delivery to deadlines

Delivering clear, informative and engaging updates to relevant stakeholders (from time to time it may be necessary to be a part of partner discussions)

Leading and nurturing a team of game developers and driving motivation towards a common goal

Have strong technical experience of Unity and C# development

Have an eye for creative thinking and problem solving - you’re able to bring together broader technical skills

Have experience of people management or leading a team in any capacity (direct/indirect)

Be confident in leading and taking accountability over the end-to-end game development cycle, at times with minimal supervision

Experienced in building and animating 3D characters and worlds

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