Staff Search Engineer, Gather
Grapevine, Artificial Intelligence
$188.7-238k
+ Stock reward
Video chat and Virtual HQs for distributed teams
Open for applications
Video chat and Virtual HQs for distributed teams
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$188.7-238k
+ Stock reward
21-100 employees
Company mission
To eliminate the physical barriers to opportunity and connection.
Role
Who you are
- You should be an algorithmic thinker who is excited to design new search algorithms, owning them from ideation to implementation and results
- Extensive experience with search & retrieval systems (esp. Opensearch, vector stores, PSQL)
- Experience on algorithmic engineering problems
- Experience building production-grade RAG systems (knowledge graphs, etc.)
- Comfort with hypothesis-driven research environments
- Intellectual curiosity that drives you to explore new approaches and stay current with emerging technologies
- Experience building internal tools for cross-functional organizations
- Excitement about working on a small team where your contributions have an outsized impact
- Strong debugging and investigation skills; you’re comfortable digging into an ambiguous problem statement and coming up with solutions
- A keen intuition for well-designed software and well-written code
- Intrinsic motivation and the drive to own and solve difficult problems without guidance
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with technical leadership abilities
- An open and growth mindset when giving and receiving feedback
- You are resourceful, have a bias towards action, and love moving fast
- A healthy tolerance for the chaotic balance between Doing Things Right and iterating and shipping quickly
What the job involves
- As a Staff Search Engineer on Grapevine, you'll be working on building out the core search algorithm and evals for our knowledge base system
- There are novel, as-yet-unsolved technical challenges here in building search algorithms for agents, rather than humans
- Design and implement the core search algorithm across unstructured knowledge, improving the quality of Grapevine’s ability to reason over difficult questions
- Design increasingly complex and general evaluations to define new goals to surpass
- Tune how new information sources are incorporated into Grapevine’s knowledge
- Create “digestion” systems to extract vital information from unstructured data
- Mentor and inspire other engineers to think creatively about AI applications
Our take
Recent years have seen existing virtual communication platforms stress-tested in both professional and social settings and generated a real appetite for innovative new offerings. Gather is one of the exciting startups in the sector, offering a virtual HQ for group meet-ups like events and office meetings.
Gather’s longevity has depended on its ability to offer something substantially more than just a substitute for in-person communication, and the virtual HQ platform means that it can offer both communication and events in a rich and engaging format. To this end, the company has been wise to invest in novel features like spatial audio tech, games, and a highly customizable ‘space’ which allows businesses and events to provide guests with a substantial and branded experience.
The startup has already quietly amassed more than 10 million users across 15 countries. Hybrid working is here to stay, and Gather is well-placed to capitalize on this by keeping the social element of office working alive for those days when staff are working from home.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Nov 2021
$50m
SERIES B
Mar 2021
$26m
SERIES A
Total funding: $76.2m
Company benefits
- Work remotely out of a state-of-the-art virtual office!
- Competitive benefits, and meaningful equity
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their dependents
- 401k and matching program
- Generous PTO policy and mental health days to recharge
- Meal stipend twice a week to keep you nourished
- Remote work, education, and health & wellness stipend
- Support for family planning & gender-affirmation
Company HQ
Remote HQ
Leadership
Phillip Wang
(Co-Founder & CEO)They are a Computer Science graduate from Carnegie Mellon University, previously a Software Engineer Intern at Facebook.
Mohammed Kumail Jaffer
(Co-Founder & CTO)They are a Computer Science graduate from Carnegie Mellon University, previously a Software Engineer at Petuum Inc.
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