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AnswerThis

End-to-end workspace to accelerate scientific discovery

AI agent orchestration

$120K - $200K*0.10% - 0.50%*San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)
Job type
Full-time
Role
Engineering, Full stack
Experience
3+ years
Visa
US citizen/visa only
Skills
Next.js, Prompt Engineering, Python, Microservices, Amazon Web
Services (AWS)
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Ayush Garg
Ayush Garg
Founder
Ayush Garg
Ayush Garg
Founder

About the role

We 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.

You should apply if you:

- Ship fast and learn faster
- Know the agentic AI stack cold (vector DBs, graph RAG, agent
memory)
- Have built full-stack products that scaled past 1M users
- Actually care about accelerating scientific discovery

Bonus: You've published research yourself.

Don't apply if you:

- Can't be in SF, in person
- Haven't used the product yet
- Don't want to talk to customers

$120K-$200K + equity. We're a small team backed by YC.

Reach out on careers [at] answerthis.io

Tell us what you hate about AnswerThis, what you love, and one
project you're proud of alongside your resume.

Science moves too slowly. Help us fix that.

About the interview

 1. Screening + technical interview (30 min) -- We'll chat about your
    background, what you've built, and dig into your experience with
    AI agents, vector search, and building at scale.
 2. Take-home assessment -- A practical project that reflects the
    actual work you'd be doing here.
 3. Final call (30 min) -- Meet more of the team. We'll discuss your
    assessment and talk through what working together would look
    like.
 4. Paid work trial (1 week) -- Work with us on a real project as a
    paid consultant. You'll get a feel for the team, the codebase,
    and how we operate.
 5. Full-time offer -- If it's a mutual fit, we'll extend an offer.

We move fast. The whole process can be done in 2-3 weeks.

About AnswerThis

AnswerThis is building the system of record for scientists--where
researchers can find papers, analyze experiments, and write drafts
while collaborating with other scientists and AI agents.

We crossed $1M ARR in 8 months. 200,000+ researchers at Stanford,
MIT, Amazon, and top institutions worldwide use us daily. We're
backed by Y Combinator (F25) and cash-flow positive.

Science moves too slowly. Grant applications take months. Literature
reviews take weeks. Researchers spend more time on paperwork than on
discovery. We're fixing that.

You'll be joining a small, fast team in SF that ships constantly and
talks to customers every day.

AnswerThis
AnswerThis
Founded:2024
Batch:F25
Team Size:6
Status:
Active
  
 
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Founders
Ayush Garg
Ayush Garg
 
 
Founder
Ayush Garg
Ayush Garg
 
 
Founder
Ryan McCarroll
Ryan McCarroll
 
 
Founder
Ryan McCarroll
Ryan McCarroll
 
 
Founder

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