AI Engineer, Granola
+ Equity
5 days a week in office
The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings
Open for applications
The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings
1-20 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
5 days a week in office
1-20 employees
Company mission
To build tools that help humans think better.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of relevant engineering experience at tech and product-driven companies
- Experience shipping LLM-based solutions to production
- Experience with inference and evaluation platforms
- Experience with RAG, semantic search, vector stores, embeddings
- Experience building features end-to-end with TypeScript, React.js, and Node.js
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment with evolving requirements and priorities
- As a person, you…
- Are first and foremost a builder
- Are excited to work in-person from our office in London (most of the time)
- Love working in a startup environment (you either have experience working in a startup or are really drawn to the zero-to-one phase)
- Want to be at the cutting edge of building world-class products on top of language models
- Are fascinated by LLMs. You love to play with them, figure out what makes them tick and get them to do what you want. You scour the web and reddit for others doing the same (you probably follow @goodside on twitter)
- Value working with people who are kind, ambitious and pragmatic
What the job involves
- We are looking for a self-starting engineer, passionate about applying the latest advancements in LLMs to create user-centric products
- In this role, you will stay on top of the latest LLM trends, build evaluation frameworks for AI features, and apply your knowledge with a product-oriented focus
- You will be an integral part of the founding team, interacting directly with users to understand their needs and rapidly developing features that deliver significant value
- Your work will be pivotal in scaling Granola to its next 100x growth milestone
- Own the development and application of LLM-based features end-to-end
- Build and maintain evaluation frameworks for prompt iteration and semantic retrieval
- Optimize embeddings and vector stores for performance and scalability
- Interact with users to understand their problems and design solutions
- Stay up-to-date with the latest trends in LLMs and applied AI practices
- Collaborate with a cross-functional team of engineers, product managers, designers, and other members to create a cutting-edge product
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Anyone who's tried coding in a modern code editor (an integrated development environment, or IDE) would balk at the idea of trying to use a basic text editor for coding. However, knowledge workers typically use a simple text editor for just about everything. Until now it's been difficult to do much about this, but large language models have recently advanced to the point where it should be possible for a tool to understand the context of any writing activity and anticipate the next steps for the user.
Granola, a London startup, is seeking to make this context-aware editor, building AI into text editing tools to augment the abilities of its users in the same way an IDE does for a coder. As something like VS Code crossed with Copilot, but for knowledge work, its solution will draw on the wider context of a workplace (not just the contents of the current document but also planned meetings, notes, emails and other information) to help with the task at hand.
The company is currently pre-product and is rounding out its founding team. With a second-time founding team (one of the founders' previous startups was acquired by Google) and plenty of support from investors who believe in the product direction (including Lightspeed Ventures, the co-founder of Instagram and former Facebook and Google talent), it will be exciting to see how Granola delivers on its vision over the coming months and years.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2024
$20m
SERIES A
May 2024
$4.3m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $29.1m
Company benefits
- Ability to progress quickly - at an early stage start-up we can promote quickly based on good performance
- Grow a product / business from 0-1, with a strong influence on business decisions
- Flexible, parent-friendly culture - We default to in-person, but feel free to WFH when you need to
- A beautiful, light-filled Old St office full of plants and good vibes, with a roof deck and great views.
- 🇪🇸 Casa Granola: use our team house sunny Majorca (yes, you read that right). It’s a space for offsites, going deep on a project with a small group, or just inviting friends/family for a holiday
- Private health insurance: Free for you, subsidised for your family
- 25 days paid time off each year
- Team lunches multiple times per week, with a fully stocked kitchen every day.
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Christopher Pedregal
(Co-Founder & CEO)Has worked as a Product Lead and Product Manager for Google. Was previously founder & CEO of Socratic prior to its acquisition by Google.
Sam Stephenson
(Co-Founder)Ex Product designer and front-end developer. Designed consumer-facing products with Ideaflow, Carv, Swim Smooth, and others.
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