Research Engineer (Full Time)
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About Crater
Crater is a next generation email client that predicts the emails you want to read and the actions you want to take before you think to do them.
We strongly believe that the most durable interesting problems to work on are those that convert user preference feedback-loops into action. We also believe that email as a source of context for billions of people remains an underrated place to build product.
The Role
Were hiring our founding team with specific emphasis on research engineers who will be directly responsible for our intuitive inbox recommendation algorithm and improving loops around retrieval/hybrid search. Backgrounds in tooling eval-driven development or product are highly favored but nothing is a must.
Eventually we hope to use the ranking of emails as proxy for understanding the pieces of work people care about and have our client become an interface for managing agents that passively improve parts of your life. If youre specifically interested in working on this project email directly w/ reference in the subject line.
Key Responsibilities
Youll work on a team of less than 8 to build improve and productionize either:
Intuitive inbox ranking algorithm for email or
Central RLHF loop on hybrid search
Expect lots of eval-driven development experimentation and testing in production
Engineering-first organization
Required Skills
All we ask is that candidates have a track record of building and shipping great products. Whether youre working on research infra or client we ask decisions to be made with users in mind. Please apply with a portfolio of said work.
Were a small talent-dense lean team. All of our engineering hours are on recommendations search and product. Flat org with lots of ownership and autonomy. Apply if you want to solve hard problems and see your solutions put into production.
Compensation & Benefits
Salary: Market rate US SF Bay Area cash compensation. Significantly above-market founding engineer equity grants.
Transportation: Covered
Work Hour Meals: Covered
Work Schedule: 6 days a week in North Beach office.
Apply If you share this belief whether as an early engineer or simply interested in learning more dont hesitate to reach out at . If youre specifically interested in working on this project email directly with reference in the subject line.
Employment Type
Full-Time
