Harmonic

Harmonic

Staff Software Engineer

New York · Staff+

Sponsorship not specified$210k-$280kDetected 96 days ago
Distributed SystemsMachine LearningLLMsA/B TestingResearchLeadershipMentoring

About the role

  • Architect the core intelligence behind Scout
  • Improve and extend our evaluation pipelines to test new models and determine lifts in specific parts of our product.
  • Our priorities are reliability, performance, cost, and then developer productivity.

Responsibilities

  • Own the end to end architecture of our sourcing engine from data ingestion, ranking, personalization, and model orchestration.
  • Build systems that allow fast iteration without compromising quality or reliability. Our priorities are reliability, performance, cost, and then developer productivity.
  • Partner with product and design to define patterns that make LLM powered sourcing intuitive and fast.
  • Mentor and guide engineers on the team raising the bar for system design, documentation, and technical decision making.
  • Drive clarity in cross team architecture with Flow, Data, and Infra ensuring Sourcing evolves as a cohesive, maintainable system.
  • Set long term technical direction for how we build AI powered sourcing systems.
  • 7-8+ YoE building distributed systems or large scale backend architecture.
  • Designed and scaled search, recommendation, or ranking systems that balance precision, recall, and performance.

Requirements

  • Strong experience with data-intensive systems, asynchronous processing, or event-driven architectures.

Skills

  • A track record of technical leadership mentoring others, introducing frameworks, and influencing technical direction.

Compensation

  • $210-280k Salary + Equity depending on the level

Benefits

  • 🩺 Top of the line health, dental and vision insurance, with 100% premium covered
  • 🚂 Commuter benefits

Company info

  • Harmonic is the startup discovery engine.
  • It pains us to see great startup opportunities consistently go unfunded not because of lack of talent, but lack of signal.
  • We're fixing that by mapping the entire startup landscape and building the tools that put the right companies in front of the right people at the right time. Investors, corporate development, and GTM teams at Anthropic, OpenAI, General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins, Brex and Notion use us to find breakout companies before they're obvious and turn that discovery into action. Whether that's a check, an acquisition, partnership or won business.
  • We're growing revenue at a rate of 100%+ annually, backed by $30M from Craft, Floodgate, and Sozo Ventures. We're committed to ensuring hundreds of billions of dollars find the right founders, so the innovations that matters most flourish. If that resonates, let's talk.
  • The Discovery team sits at the core of Harmonic's product and data engine.
  • We source and ingest data from first-, second- and third-party sources, including hundreds of fragmented and unstructured sources, and turn them into structured insights and searchable indices.
  • Recently, we built the industry leading agentic layer for startup search and research, that's unlocking new paradigms for VCs to make sense of this vast amount of data on startups and automate critical tasks in their sourcing and diligence workflows.
  • We're in the middle of a massive platform shift where AI and LLMs are transforming what "software" is.
  • Explore Working with Sang
  • Check out your Scout focused teammates Austin, Yesh, and Kelvin
  • Explore the Team Page. We're a mix of ex-founders and seasoned engineers from top engineering institutions like Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft and Meta.
  • Scope of the role:
  • Define scalable frameworks for retrieval, reranking, and LLM driven evaluation to ensure we deliver highly personalized and high quality results.
  • Create architectural patterns that integrate Scout seamlessly with our existing products to power repeatable sourcing workflows.
  • Lead agentic experimentation and evaluation
  • Drive technical discovery for emerging technologies (e.g. memory systems, schema, prompt libraries, embedding models, and agentic frameworks).
  • Shape AI native product experiences
  • Translate ambiguous product goals into scalable technical designs that unblock new workflows for our users.
  • Establish best practices for building AI-first UX patterns (agentic flows, async interactions, structured outputs).
  • Provide architectural leadership across engineering
  • Background we're looking for:
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