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Published salary ranges at character

Measured 2026-10-24 from ashby. 13 postings carried a pay range; every number below is what the company itself published, not an estimate.

Median
$250,000
p25
$240,000
p75
$275,000
p90
$312,500
Remote
0%

By role family

Role familyPostingsMedian midpoint
data / ml5$312,500
engineering5$225,000
product3$240,000

Role family comes from the job title, so a "Member of Technical Staff" lands in engineering while an odd title falls into other. Midpoint is (low + high) / 2 after annualising and converting to USD.

Highest published ranges

TitleLocationLowHigh
Principal Research Engineer, Post-TrainingRedwood City, CA$275,000$400,000
Research Engineer, Post-Training (All Industry Levels)Redwood City or New York City$225,000$400,000
Research Engineer, AI Safety & AlignmentRedwood City, CA$225,000$400,000
Staff Data Scientist, MonetizationRedwood City, CA · New York, NY$250,000$300,000
Machine Learning Infrastructure EngineerRedwood City, CA$150,000$350,000
Software Engineer, Applied ML (Discovery, Recommendation & Search)Redwood City, CA$200,000$300,000
Technical Program Manager, Product ExperienceRedwood City, CA$200,000$300,000
Software Engineer, BackendRedwood City, CA$180,000$300,000
Technical Program Manager, AI InfrastructureRedwood City, CA$220,000$260,000
Technical Program Manager, Model Alignment and DeploymentRedwood City, CA$220,000$260,000
Software Engineer, Core ProductRedwood City, CA$150,000$300,000
Software Engineer, MonetizationRedwood City, CA$150,000$300,000

Questions people actually ask

What does character publish as an annual salary?

Across 13 postings that state a pay range, the median midpoint is $250,000. The middle 50% sits between $240,000 and $275,000, and the 90th percentile is $312,500. All figures are annualised and converted to USD.

How many character postings actually publish pay?

13 of the postings we read from ashby carried a range on the day we measured (2026-10-24). The rest did not publish pay at all, so they are not in these numbers.

Which roles at character publish the highest salaries?

data / ml is the largest family in this sample (5 postings, median $312,500). The table above lists every family we saw and the highest individual ranges.

Is this what character actually pays?

No. This is what the company itself published in its job postings, normalised to a yearly USD range. Real offers vary by level, location and equity, and many postings omit pay entirely.

Get the data

These 13 rows are part of one CSV covering every company we read: the full dataset (salary-ranges-full.csv) under CC BY 4.0. Or pull it into Python:

pip install https://sjdfi0wjvosdju9.github.io/packages/salaryranges-0.1.1-py3-none-any.whl
import salaryranges
salaryranges.by_company("character")

If you want the same numbers refreshed on a schedule, including the postings that never publish pay, that is the paid part: ATS Job Feed ($0.0015 per returned job).