AnswerThis Seeks Engineers to Build AI-Powered System for Scientific Research
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Summary
AnswerThis, a Y Combinator-backed startup, has achieved $1M ARR in 8 months and serves over 200,000 researchers from institutions like Stanford, MIT, and Amazon, helping them conduct literature reviews 10x faster. The company is now building a comprehensive 'system of record for scientists' that integrates paper discovery, experiment analysis, and collaborative drafting with AI agents. The article is primarily a job posting seeking engineers who are proficient in the agentic AI stack, have experience scaling products to millions of users, and are passionate about accelerating scientific progress. The role requires in-person work in San Francisco and offers a salary range of $120K-$200K plus equity.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledWe crossed $1M ARR in 8 months. 200,000+ researchers at Stanford, MIT, and Amazon use us to do literature reviews 10x faster.
Now we're building something bigger: the system of record for scientists where they can find papers, analyze experiments, and write their drafts while collaborating with other scientists as well as our AI agents.
Know the agentic AI stack cold (vector DBs, graph RAG, agent memory)
Actually care about accelerating scientific discovery
Science moves too slowly. Help us fix that.
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