Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed

Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed

Company: Chakra Labs
Location: New York, NY (on-site in Flatiron)
Compensation: $200,000 - $280,000 + competitive equity
Employment Type: Full-time
Visa Sponsorship: Visa transfers and new sponsorship (H-1B, TN)

About Chakra Labs

Chakra Labs works with leading research teams to build deterministic, pixel-perfect reinforcement learning environments and trajectory datasets that push AI capability boundaries.

Founded in 2025, Chakra Labs has raised a $25M Series A and has a team of about 12.

The Role

Chakra Labs is hiring Forward Deployed Engineers (2-5 years) as fast-moving generalists who bridge its platform and what frontier AI lab customers need. You will handle ad hoc customer requests (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 You Will Do

• Shape expert-created data to fit the specific requirements of frontier AI lab customers.
• Build quick plugins, features and improvements to data-collection systems.
• Handcraft reinforcement learning task samples for customer needs.
• Spin up customer-facing dashboards and portals on short timelines.
• Spot when one-off builds should become part of the core platform.

What You Bring

• 2-5 years of engineering experience
• Generalist skills across TypeScript, Python and Go
• Comfort with tight timelines and ad hoc customer requests
• Interest in post-training, RL environments and agent research
• Ability to work on-site in Flatiron, NYC

Tech Stack

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

REVENUE: 15.75% of first-year salary. Est. fee per hire $32K-$44K; 3 seat(s) = up to $113K if all filled.

TARGET COMPANIES (suggested): Scale AI, Surge AI, Mercor, Palantir, Vercel, YC startups.

BEST-FIT CANDIDATE: 2-5 yrs; generalist TS/Python; customer-facing speed; visa: transfers + new H-1B/TN; location: NYC Flatiron.