About Consensus
Scientific research contains the most valuable knowledge humans have ever created. Yet, there’s no easy way to search and consume it.
This is the problem the Consensus team is obsessed with solving. Our vision is to create the easiest way to search for expert answers from the world’s most trusted datasets.
We released the first version of our product this fall, a search engine that uses large language models to find answers in research papers. We are a small but rapidly growing startup, looking to add team members excited about solving a huge problem at the intersection of some of the most important forces of our time: AI, Science, and Search.
Company highlights:
- We are venture funded, and currently closing another round of funding led by a well known Bay Area fund
- We have organically acquired >30,000 users in three months since launch
- Recently featured in The Atlantic, Boston Globe, and The New York Times
The Role
We have a core engineering team of 3 seasoned software engineers and data scientists who have built the existing product. You will be joining this team to help us continue to architect and develop our core infrastructure, with a focus on improving our search engine performance and optimizing our existing data pipelines.
Current technologies: Python, Elasticsearch, Postgres, Apache Beam, GCP/AWS
Core Responsibilities
- Research and implement innovative solutions to improve the relevancy of our search results.
- Own substantial pieces of the data pipelines and collaboratively work on optimizing our existing flows.
- Help maintain and develop our full stack infrastructure, including integrating productionized ML models into our user facing web application
What We Value
- You’ve spent 5+ years working on challenging software engineering problems, including search engine performance and data pipeline architectures.
- You prefer simple solutions and have a good intuition for what will scale and be maintainable.
- You’re familiar with cloud infrastructure, databases, and full stack engineering.
- You enjoy writing in typed Python, following best practices, and proactively updating and maintaining the codebase.
- You’re seeking to be a part of an ambitious, high performance, and scrappy startup team.
- You’re a collaborative team player who prioritizes decision making based on what’s best for the mission.
- You care about creating a more scientifically-informed world or democratizing access to knowledge through technology.
