Chakra Labs - Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed
Quick facts
- Pay
- $200,000-$280,000 base + competitive equity
- Type
- Full-time
- Location
- New York, NY
- Experience
- 2–5 years
- Skills
- Python, TypeScript, AWS
- Industry
- Information Technology — 666 open jobs
- Visa in listing
- H-1B
- Apply
- Free to apply — never pay anyone for a job offer or visa sponsorship
Job description
Source: Paraform - https://www.paraform.com/share/chakra-labs/cmtgroz4r001z0cl2gzrpgs73
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
Visa sponsorship record
No public sponsorship records foundWe didn't find H-1B, H-1B1, E-3 or green card (PERM) filings under the name deCircle in the Department of Labor and USCIS data. That doesn't mean the job can't be sponsored — the company may file under a different legal name, be new to sponsorship, or sponsor a visa that isn't in these datasets (for example H-2B or J-1).
Tip: ask the recruiter early, in writing, which visa they sponsor and whether they cover the legal and filing fees.
Which visas can work for this job
- Mentioned in the listing
H-1B
- H-1B cap-exempt employer
Regular cap-subject employer — a new H-1B needs to win the lottery in March (unless you already hold cap-counted H-1B status).
- O-1 (extraordinary ability)
For candidates with awards, publications, press, a high salary or critical roles at distinguished organizations. No cap, no lottery; the employer files a petition.
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