Software Engineer, Product

About the role

We’re looking for a software engineer to join us in inventing a new, better way to do science. Your work might include:

• Designing and building scalable features and infrastructure for AI-powered research tools.
• Engaging directly with customers to gather insights and improve user experience.
• Monitoring and optimizing system performance and costs, making pragmatic tradeoffs to keep us lean and moving fast.
• Establishing best practices for prompt engineering and deployment of new models and workflows.
• Owning the design and automation of eval pipelines to continuously measure, benchmark and improve AI agent quality and reliability.

Responsibilities

Your work might include:

• Designing and building scalable features and infrastructure for AI-powered research tools.
• Engaging directly with customers to gather insights and improve user experience.
• Monitoring and optimizing system performance and costs, making pragmatic tradeoffs to keep us lean and moving fast.
• Establishing best practices for prompt engineering and deployment of new models and workflows.
• Owning the design and automation of eval pipelines to continuously measure, benchmark and improve AI agent quality and reliability.

Requirements

• You are quick, scrappy and first and foremost a builder.
• Product at Anara moves lightning fast. We typically take features from idea to production in days, not weeks or months.
• You blend excellent engineering with a taste for models and design.
• You’ve worked on full stack agent behaviors and have hands-on experience with LLMs, RAG, and agent architectures.
• Have independently built and scaled a product to at least a few thousand users (e.g. a side project or open-source project).
• Have worked in a high-growth, fast-paced environment (ideally another startup) and can drive things forward with relatively little oversight.

Qualifications

• Anara Our goal is to achieve 100 years of scientific progress in the next 10 years. The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for industry researchers and graduate students, using a combination of inventive research, design and engineering.
• In two years, we’ve grown to millions of users across the world’s most ambitious academic labs and R&D teams, we are fast approaching $10M in yearly revenue, and we raised $3M from Y Combinator and the founders of GitHub and Reddit.
• We're a small, tight-knit team of 10 people with huge ambitions. As a founding member, you'll be instrumental in helping us scale revenue from $10M to $100M and then $100M to $1B+.

Skills

• Quick, scrappy and first and foremost a builder.
• Excellent engineering skills combined with a taste for models and design.
• Experience with full stack agent behaviors and LLMs, RAG, and agent architectures.
• Independent product development and scaling to a few thousand users.
• High-growth, fast-paced environment experience.

Benefits

• Premium healthcare (medical, dental, etc.)
• Flexible working hours
• Office space with a beautiful view of the San Francisco marina and Golden Gate bridge

Pay

$150K - $200K

Schedule

Remote (North America, Europe)