Who are we?
GPTZero’s mission is to restore information quality and transparency on the internet.
Our team comes from high-performing engineering cultures, including Uber, Meta, Microsoft, Affirm, and leading AI research labs, including Princeton, Caltech, Vector, and MILA. We are working on novel models and pushing cutting-edge research to production, including AI detection, AI hallucination detection, retrieval augmented generation, and writing stylometry to over 3 million active users, and enterprise clients including Fortune 1000 and Unicorn AI companies.
We are backed by some of the best in the valley, including Uncork, Neo, Altman Capital, and in journalism, including Mark Thompson (CEO of NYT, BBC, CNN) and Tom Glocer (CEO of Reuters) who defined a generation of quality digital information.
What we’re looking for
As a founding fullstack engineer, you’ll build and ship responsible AI-powered products to millions of users. You’ll help expand our AI-detection and verification platform and create new products. You’ll build new features, UIs, and APIs, and partner closely with our ML and design teams to create delightful user experiences.
Responsibilities
Ship intuitive, AI-powered web applications from scratch in React, Node, and Tailwind
Build on secure and well-tested API, authentication, and payment flows on our Node.js and SQL backend on AWS
Improve our product-led conversion funnel using analytics, user discovery, and latest methods
Collaborate on defining the product roadmap with our ML, design, and business teams
Establish a deep understanding of our users by meeting with clients and power users from academia, marketing, publishing, and data labeling
Design robust software with comprehensive test suites and monitoring
Qualifications
Comfortable building end-to-end experiences from backend to CSS
3+ years of experience with modern web frameworks (Express, Next.js, Typescript, and React)
3+ years of experience with databases (SQL, NoSQL, and text search)
Highly motivated to make positive societal impact
Wear multiple hats and be a leader as our team grows
US work eligibility or visa
Bonus:
strong open-source portfolio
experience working in an early-stage startup environment
Who you’ll be joining
We’re a small team. We value ownership, transparency, and listening to each other.
Everyone works and interacts with everyone. Everyone is free to attend meetings across product functions, whether it’s diving into designs or dropping into our ML learning groups.
Here are some people you’ll work closely with. You’ll be meeting everyone.
Alex (CTO), Ph.D. dropout, R&D at Uber self-driving division and Facebook, 3 patents in ML, 2021 and 2019 Best ML Hack at Stanford
Nazar (ML), employee #2 and head of ML at the profitable a16z-backed generative media company Reface, taking them to 250M+ downloads and 200+ headcount
Vivienne (Product Marketing), first and founding marketer at no-code startup Bubble, propelling product lead growth to 1M users and 50M ARR
Jacob (Engineering), Waterloo CS, engineer at Affirm, Lime, Zynga, Level.
Edward (CEO), Investigative journalist at BBC World Service, R&D at Microsoft AI and Princeton NLP lab
Jonathan (Strategy & Operations), former Director of Product at YipitData, led and scaled corporate business arm from 250K to 20M+ ARR, and from Series B to Series E
Together, we are committed to making a permanent impact on the future of the internet, and on humanity.
Our Perks
🏥 Health, dental, and vision coverage
💻 Hybrid work in NYC Union Square Office
🚀 Competitive salary
🍰 Competitive equity for a founding team member
We are a cash-flow positive/profitable company experiencing exponential growth in multiple industries. We are open to sharing our growth metrics with applicants.
🎉 Quarterly company offsites; the last two were in Montreal and Miami.
🏝 Flexible PTO
💡Learning stipend, mentorship, and time with world-class advisors, including:
Tom Glocer (former CEO of Reuters, who recently reviewed the beta and is advising our product team on launching hallucination detection)
Russ Heddleston (CEO Docsend, our favorite GTM advisor who recently dropped into all-hands to share additional strategies for growing our self-serve GTM motion)
Ruslan Salakhutdinov (former director of AI at Apple, and current VP of Research for LLama, who meets monthly with our team to advise on AI model development)
Amy Saper (founding product marketer at Stripe, who offers time with our team on growth strategies)
Jack Altman (CEO of Lattice, brother of Sam Altman) on building great product culture
Mike Smith (COO Walmart.com, COO StitchFix) and Jeff Barrett CTO StitchFix, on scaling a great engineering team.
