**Founding Fullstack Engineer** at Danswer in San Francisco, CA. On-site, 60h+/week. Visa sponsorship available. Key tech: Docker/Kubernetes, cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), Typescript/React/NextJS, Python, Postgres, Redis. Shape core AI product, build UI for GenAI Chat, Enterprise Search. Collaborate with founders. Previous startup/founder experience preferred.

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Co-Founder

Onyx

Danswer is the AI assistant that connects to all your company tools and docs and
makes finding any piece of information a breeze. Think ChatGPT, but with access
to all your companies documents (only the ones you have access to, of course
:P). Or, if you know Glean, you can think about it like an open-source Glean.



As a founding engineer hire at Danswer, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping
the core product. Help us become the single application where users go to find
all work related information. This is an in-person role based in San Francisco,
CA.

Yuhong Sun

default plan

Non-Technical Phone Screen

Technical Design Interview

Practical Coding Interview

3 Day Onsite Trial

Fullstack Engineer (old)

Danswer is the AI assistant that connects to all your company tools and docs and makes finding any piece of information a breeze. Think ChatGPT, but with access to all your companies documents (only the ones you have access to, of course :P). Or, if you know Glean, you can think about it like an open-source Glean.As a founding engineer hire at Danswer, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the core product. Help us become the single application where users go to find all work related information. This is an in-person role based in San Francisco, CA.

Background as a previous founder, early joiners (0-1 engineers) of now very successful growth stage startup, or from a top company known for an incredibly high talent-bar

Experience with Typescript/React/NextJS, Python, Relational DB (Postgres), Redis, Docker

Excited to work in a fast moving startup and in small teams with significant unknowns and able to execute well with incomplete information.

Excellent communication skills, with a strong ability to collaborate with others (both teammates and external customers)

Able to work in-person with the team in San Francisco, and game to work 60h+/week

Experience with Docker/Kubernetes, cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure), and on-prem/cloud deployments

Experience (or even just interest) in information retrieval and AI (NLP, Deep Learning, GenAI)

About the role
💻 About the company
Danswer is the open source AI Assistant connected to your company's docs, apps, and people. We sync to all sources of information (Slack, Google Drive, Confluence, Github, etc.) and provide a single place where users can ask anything and get an answer immediately. Think your most knowledgeable co-workers, all-rolled into one, and available 24/7!

We also allow users to create custom assistants with access to specific knowledge and tools. For example, customer support teams have built out agents to auto-answer inquiries based on specific internal knowledge sets. Sales teams have created an assistant who they can chat with about their past sales calls, find patterns, and use this information to close more deals. The possibilities are endless 🤯

🤝🏻 About the founders
Yuhong Sun - Expertise in Machine Learning (with specialization in NLP) as well as backend systems. Previously working on Deep Learning for NL-to-SQL and Semantic Search at Alation, inc.

Chris Weaver - Previously TL on the anti-fraud engine team at Robinhood. In a past life, I was a top 100 League of Legends / Hearthstone player 😎

💡 About the role
As a founding engineer hire, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the core product. Help us become the single application where users go to find all work related information. This is an in-person role based in San Francisco, CA.

Building a consumer grade UI experience for our GenAI Chat, Enterprise Search, and Admin/Curation features
Improving the flexibility and quality of the search pipeline, building a semantic understanding of customer organizations, extending the current permission/access controls, and expanding the knowledge curation features
Own the entire development cycle of new features, from conception to production
Collaborate with founders to shape and influence the direction of the product and contribute to the engineering strategy
🚀 You’ll be successful in this role if you…
Have 1-5 years (or more) of software engineering experience building real-world applications
Experience with Typescript/React/NextJS, Python, Relational DB (Postgres)
Experience working in a fast moving startup and in small teams with minimal guidance
Excellent communication skills, with a strong ability to collaborate with others (both teammates and external customers)
⭐ Bonus points
Experience with Docker/Kubernetes, cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure), and on-prem/cloud deployments
Experience (or even just interest) in information retrieval and AI (NLP, Deep Learning, GenAI)
Previous Founder or 0-to-1 engineer at early startup
About the interview
Non-technical Phone Screen
Technical Design Interview (30 mins)
Practical Coding Interview (30 mins)
3 Day Onsite Trial (fully covered + compensated)
About Danswer
Danswer is the open source AI Assistant connected to your company's docs, apps, and people. We sync to all sources of information (Slack, Google Drive, Confluence, Github, etc.) and provide a single place where users can ask anything and get an answer immediately. Think your most knowledgeable co-workers, all-rolled into one, and available 24/7!

We also allow users to create custom assistants with access to specific knowledge and tools. For example, customer support teams have built out agents to auto-answer inquiries based on specific internal knowledge sets. Sales teams have created an assistant who they can chat with about their past sales calls, find patterns, and use this information to close more deals. The possibilities are endless 🤯

Can sponsor TN and H1B transfer but not H1B sponsorship

In-person in San Francisco (FiDi). We are a hard working team, 60H weeks.

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