Chakra Labs
Chakra Labs

Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed

Full-time
On-site
Flatiron, Manhattan, New York, NY
$200K - $280K

$200K–$280K base salary + competitive equity. 100% medical/vision/dental covered, $30/day meal stipend, unlimited PTO, and up to $10K relocation stipend.

About this role

We are looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer with 2–5 years of experience to join Chakra Labs as a fast-moving generalist who bridges the gap between our platform and what frontier AI lab customers need. You'll handle ad hoc customer requests — shaping data, spinning up dashboards, handcrafting RL tasks, and building quick features — all on tight timelines at the cutting edge of post-training and agent research.

What will you be doing?

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

  • Building quick plugins, features, or temporary improvements to existing systems for data collection

  • Handcrafting reinforcement learning task samples tailored to customer needs

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

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

in full-stack SWE in fast-paced environments
Salary
$200K - $280K ($200K–$280K base salary + competitive equity. 100% medical/vision/dental covered, $30/day meal stipend, unlimited PTO, and up to $10K relocation stipend.)
Equity
Competitive equity
Visa sponsorship details
Open to visa transfers (e.g. OPT, H1B transfers)
Open to visa sponsorships (e.g. new H1B, TN)
On-site work policy
On-site in Flatiron, Manhattan, NYC
Full-time position
Location
Flatiron, Manhattan, New York, NY
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 trajectories datasets to push capability boundaries.

Team size

15 employees

Founded

2025

Total funding

$25M

Company locations

New York City, NY
Tech stack
TypeScript, Python, Go, Vercel, Supabase, AWS, EKS