--- title: 'Member of Technical Staff at Chakra Labs' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/member-of-technical-staff-chakra-labs-brooklyn-sxmmc376tx54' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-11' --- # Member of Technical Staff at Chakra Labs - **Company:** Chakra Labs - **Location:** Brooklyn, NY - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-04-08 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/chakra-labs/8a221a5c-38a3-431e-af50-30d58f05202e ## Job description ## About Us Chakra Labs' mission is to encode human taste into intelligence. We build high-fidelity environments, evals, and datasets for frontier AI research, working with several of the top labs. Our work sits at the frontier of post-training, agent environments, data quality, and research infrastructure. We care about building systems that make models better in ways that are measurable, useful, and hard to fake. ## What You'd Work On - Agent orchestration at scale. Hundreds of agent runs at once, each with its own stateful environment. 100M tokens per minute across the fleet. You own the dispatch layer: SQS, concurrency control, failure handling. - Environment and task design. We need environments that feel real and scenarios that actually push agents to their limits. You'd figure out how to build new evaluations and design the tasks that test what matters, not just what's easy to measure. - The product around the platform. Infrastructure nobody can use isn't infrastructure. You'd build the surfaces our customers touch - dashboards for run inspection, tooling for experts to use, APIs that make the platform feel obvious - and ship them end to end. - New frontiers. The agent evaluation space is moving fast. You'd stay on that edge, supporting new environment modalities and shipping integrations with external orchestration frameworks. ## About You - Generalist range, infra depth. You're a strong engineer across the stack - backend services, data pipelines, enough frontend to ship a real interface - with genuine depth in systems. You'd rather own a whole problem than a layer of one. - Container orchestration. You're comfortable running Kubernetes or similar in production. Auto-scaling, pod lifecycle, persistent storage, networking. You can figure out why something won't schedule and reason about resource contention. - Distributed systems. You've built or maintained message-driven architectures. SQS, Kafka, or similar. You know how to keep jobs moving when things back up, retry without duplicating, and fail without losing work. - LLM infrastructure. You've run LLM workloads at scale. Token instrumentation, rate limit handling, prompt caching, multi-provider routing. You've built the plumbing between models and external tools, and you know what it takes to keep it all running under load. - Experience. No hard rule. Ideally at least 3 years at this level, but less works if the above sounds like you. What Makes This Different - It's infra, but the workload is AI agents. You're monitoring model behavior alongside pod health, debugging token throughput alongside network throughput. - Our customers are AI researchers and labs. You'd work directly with the people pushing the frontier of what agents can do, and build the infrastructure they run it on. - Ownership, not theater. You own whole systems, not tickets in a queue. One week you're shipping a new environment type, the next you're scaling the dispatch layer to handle 10x the throughput. You will ship your work to real customers, and build things that didn't exist a month ago. - The team. Our team is ex-Stripe, Snap, AWS, Microsoft, Airtable — you'll work with a small team who has years of shipping high-impact products over the last decade. - Cutting edge. You will get to touch the latest and greatest technologies across the data, AI, and infrastructure stack. ## About Chakra Labs ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Chakra Labs builds deterministic, pixel-perfect reinforcement learning environments and high-fidelity trajectory datasets to push the boundaries of frontier AI agent research. - **Entity Type**: Private (Venture-backed; $10.1M total funding) - **Headquarters**: Brooklyn, New York, United States (with presence in Australia and Nigeria) - **Founded**: Not publicly available (recent; rapid growth from ~4 to 15 employees in past year) - **Founders**: Nirmal Krishnan (Co-Founder, CEO), Alexander Fung (Co-Founder, CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Data Infrastructure and Analytics / Frontier AI Research Infrastructure - **Target customers**: Frontier AI research teams, model developers, and applied research labs (B2B / Research) - **Mission or purpose**: To provide research-grade infrastructure for frontier-scale experiments where emergent behaviors develop, enabling reproducible and scientifically rigorous agent development. ## Products & Services - **[Dojo](https://www.chakra.dev/)**: A collaborative reinforcement learning (RL) environment suite for computer-use agents (CUAs). Supports frame-accurate state capture, deterministic execution, mixed-modality training (GUI + MCP tool-use), and bespoke task generation. Available via containerization for hosted or on-premises deployments. - **Trajectory Datasets**: Curated, high-fidelity datasets (2,500+ hours of trajectories) preserving temporal structure and decision trees, designed for post-training and evaluation. Access via request. - **GLADOS-1**: A computer-use agent model post-trained using crowd-sourced trajectories (announced Sep 2025). ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $10.1M (Venture Round, January 2026) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not explicitly named in available sources; collaborated with "leading research teams" - **Growth Signals**: 366.7% headcount growth year-over-year (from ~4 to 15 employees); strong traffic growth (+88.7% monthly visits); publications and thought leadership in RL environment design. ## Competitive Advantages - **Deterministic, pixel-perfect environments**: Frame-accurate state control and temporal integrity prevent reward hacking and ensure reproducible experiments. - **Mixed-modality training**: Simultaneous GUI interaction and programmatic tool-use within single tasks – a differentiator for multi-modal agent research. - **Bespoke task generation**: Automated creation of novel, verifiable tasks enabling experiments with extended autonomous runtime and error recovery. - **High-fidelity datasets**: Realistic, in-distribution trajectories that avoid synthetic edge cases, improving transfer learning to deployment. ## Strategic Focus - Building infrastructure for frontier-defining agent problems, with emphasis on scientific rigor, speed of iteration, and collaboration between humans and AI. - Expanding the Dojo platform and dataset offerings to support both hosted and on-premises deployments for leading research labs. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Small, high-impact team (15 people) composed of talent from Stripe, Jane Street, Alchemy, The Boring Company, and UNSW CompClub – emphasis on engineering excellence and research. - **Remote-first**: Employees work remotely with offices listed in the US (Brooklyn) and presence in Australia and Nigeria. - **Research environment**: Focus on open platform for RL environments, publications, and pushing capability boundaries – ideal for engineers and researchers passionate about AI agent infrastructure. - **Tech stack**: Modern tooling (notion for internal ops, containerized deployment via Harbor and Verl). ## Sources 1. [chakra.dev](https://www.chakra.dev/) 2. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/chakra-labs](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/chakra-labs) 3. [linkedin.com/company/chakra-labs](https://www.linkedin.com/company/chakra-labs) 4. [builtin.com/company/chakra-labs](https://builtin.com/company/chakra-labs) 5. 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