
What Anara does
Anara is AI for scientific advancement. We help researchers find, understand and write scientific documents, together. We started working on Anara two years ago. In that time: - we’ve grown to 3M users spanning hundreds of major colleges and research-led companies, - we are fast approaching $10M in yearly revenue, - 600M+ people have seen our content across Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, - and we raised $3M from YC and the founders of Github and Reddit. We're a small, tight-knit team with huge ambitions. As a founding member, you'll be instrumental in helping us scale revenue from $10M to $100M and then $100M to $1B+. If you’re excited by the idea of being a part of that, definitely reach out.
4 open roles
What the role involves
$150K - $200K // 0.50% - 1.00% // San Francisco Anara is building the future of scientific discovery. Our AI workspace is just the beginning. We’re solving the hardest design problems in AI, automating literature review and making these capabilities available to scientists and students alike. Role We’re looking for a product designer to join us inventing a new way to do science. You’ll work with our founder (who’s also a designer) to build novel research tools that will transform how scientific discoveries are made for decades to come. Your work might include: Designing and shipping features that define how humans and AI collaborate to do research. Talking to users, translating these conversations into product features, improvements and fixes. Working closely with engineers to ensure high-quality implementation and rapid iteration. Owning aspects of our visual identity across product, marketing, socials and brand. Maintaining design systems, documentation practices and workflows that help the team build visually consistent, high-quality features quickly. You’re likely a good fit if: You are quick, scrappy and first and foremost a builder. Product at Anara moves lightning fast. We typically take features from idea to production in days, not weeks or months. You’ve spent at least 2+ years shipping complex but beautiful features to real users. You live and breathe pixels with excellent taste for well-crafted interaction design and UI details. You have worked in a high-growth, fast-paced environment (ideally another startup) and can drive things forward with relatively little oversight. About Anara Our goal is to achieve 100 years of scientific progress in the next 10 years. The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for industry researchers and graduate students, using a combination of inventive research, design and engineering. In two years, we’ve grown to millions of users across the world’s most ambitious academic labs and R&D teams, we are fast approaching $10M in yearly revenue, and we raised $3M from Y Combinator and the founders of GitHub and Reddit. We're a small, tight-knit team of 10 people with huge ambitions. As a founding member, you'll be instrumental in helping us scale revenue from $10M to $100M and then $100M to $1B+. If you’re excited by the idea of being a part of that, definitely apply. This is an in-person opportunity in San Francisco. We’re more than happy to sponsor visas. If we make you an offer, we'll work with an immigration attorney to make sure everything goes smoothly. We offer premium healthcare (medical, dental, etc.), flexible working hours and office space with a beautiful view of the San Francisco marina and Golden Gate bridge.
What the role involves
$150K - $200K // 0.50% - 1.00% // San Francisco Role Backend engineers build the platform that support’s Anara’s functionality. Sometimes this means inventing retrieval systems that can process 10M+ files. Sometimes this means dealing with the woes of scaling to hundreds of thousands of concurrent users. Your work might include: Designing and building scalable infrastructure for AI-powered research tools. Collaborating closely with the rest of the engineering team on our RAG pipeline, continuously improving response quality, latency and robustness. Establishing best practices for prompt engineering and deployment of new models and workflows. Monitoring and optimizing system performance and costs, making pragmatic tradeoffs to keep us lean and moving fast. Owning the design and automation of eval pipelines to continuously measure, benchmark and improve AI agent quality and reliability. You’re likely a good fit if: You are quick, scrappy and first and foremost a builder. Product at Anara moves lightning fast. We typically take features from idea to production in days, not weeks or months. You blend excellent engineering with a taste for models and design. You’ve worked on back end agent behaviors and have hands-on experience with LLMs, RAG, and agent architectures. Have independently built and scaled a product to at least a few thousand users (e.g. a side project or open-source project). Have worked in a high-growth, fast-paced environment (ideally another startup) and can drive things forward with relatively little oversight. Anara Our goal is to achieve 100 years of scientific progress in the next 10 years. The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for industry researchers and graduate students, using a combination of inventive research, design and engineering. In two years, we’ve grown to millions of users across the world’s most ambitious academic labs and R&D teams, we are fast approaching $10M in yearly revenue, and we raised $3M from Y Combinator and the founders of GitHub and Reddit. We're a small, tight-knit team of 10 people with huge ambitions. As a founding member, you'll be instrumental in helping us scale revenue from $10M to $100M and then $100M to $1B+. If you’re excited by the idea of being a part of that, definitely apply. This is an in-person opportunity in San Francisco. We’re more than happy to sponsor visas. If we make you an offer, we'll work with an immigration attorney to make sure everything goes smoothly. We offer premium healthcare (medical, dental, etc.), flexible working hours and office space with a beautiful view of the San Francisco marina and Golden Gate bridge.
What the role involves
$150K - $200K // 0.50% - 1.00% // San Francisco Role We’re looking for a software engineer to join us in inventing a new, better way to do science. You’ll build novel research tools that will transform how scientific discoveries are made for decades to come. Your work might include: Designing and building scalable features and infrastructure for AI-powered research tools. Engaging directly with customers to gather insights and improve user experience. Monitoring and optimizing system performance and costs, making pragmatic tradeoffs to keep us lean and moving fast. Establishing best practices for prompt engineering and deployment of new models and workflows. Owning the design and automation of eval pipelines to continuously measure, benchmark and improve AI agent quality and reliability. You’re likely a good fit if: You are quick, scrappy and first and foremost a builder. Product at Anara moves lightning fast. We typically take features from idea to production in days, not weeks or months. You blend excellent engineering with a taste for models and design. You’ve worked on full stack agent behaviors and have hands-on experience with LLMs, RAG, and agent architectures. Have independently built and scaled a product to at least a few thousand users (e.g. a side project or open-source project). Have worked in a high-growth, fast-paced environment (ideally another startup) and can drive things forward with relatively little oversight. Anara Our goal is to achieve 100 years of scientific progress in the next 10 years. The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for industry researchers and graduate students, using a combination of inventive research, design and engineering. In two years, we’ve grown to millions of users across the world’s most ambitious academic labs and R&D teams, we are fast approaching $10M in yearly revenue, and we raised $3M from Y Combinator and the founders of GitHub and Reddit. We're a small, tight-knit team of 10 people with huge ambitions. As a founding member, you'll be instrumental in helping us scale revenue from $10M to $100M and then $100M to $1B+. If you’re excited by the idea of being a part of that, definitely apply. This is an in-person opportunity in San Francisco. We’re more than happy to sponsor visas. If we make you an offer, we'll work with an immigration attorney to make sure everything goes smoothly. We offer premium healthcare (medical, dental, etc.), flexible working hours and office space with a beautiful view of the San Francisco marina and Golden Gate bridge.
What the role involves
$150K - $200K // 0.50% - 1.00% // San Francisco Role As our first and only product manager, you’ll work alongside our founder to drive the evolution of Anara and shape how researchers work with AI. You’ll build novel tools that will transform how scientific discoveries are made for decades to come. As model intelligence accelerates, the ultimate form factor of agents for scientific research remains unwritten. We’re looking for a product manager who combines deep technical understanding, genuine love for science, and strong product intuition. You should be equally comfortable discussing customer feedback with world-class researchers, debugging user workflows with engineers, and presenting product strategy to the team. Your work might include: Performing discovery through user interviews, session replay, data analysis, etc. and present findings to the team. Translating cutting-edge AI advances into practical features for researchers. Surfacing trends and insights from customer feedback to the team at large to inform product choices. Optimizing existing flows to reduce friction, lower churn and increase conversion. Working closely with the engineering team to ensure Anara remains the best way to do scientific research with AI. You’re likely a good fit if: You are quick, scrappy and first and foremost a builder. Product at Anara moves lightning fast. We typically take features from idea to production in days, not weeks or months. Have a combined 2+ years in product management and engineering, including at least 1 year as a professional engineer. You have world-class design and product taste. Have independently built and scaled a product to at least a few thousand users (e.g. a side project or open-source project). Have worked in a high-growth, fast-paced environment (ideally another startup) and can drive things forward with relatively little oversight. Anara Our goal is to achieve 100 years of scientific progress in the next 10 years. The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for industry researchers and graduate students, using a combination of inventive research, design and engineering. In two years, we’ve grown to millions of users across the world’s most ambitious academic labs and R&D teams, we are fast approaching $10M in yearly revenue, and we raised $3M from Y Combinator and the founders of GitHub and Reddit. We're a small, tight-knit team of 10 people with huge ambitions. As a founding member, you'll be instrumental in helping us scale revenue from $10M to $100M and then $100M to $1B+. If you’re excited by the idea of being a part of that, definitely apply. This is an in-person opportunity in San Francisco. We’re more than happy to sponsor visas. If we make you an offer, we'll work with an immigration attorney to make sure everything goes smoothly. We offer premium healthcare (medical, dental, etc.), flexible working hours and office space with a beautiful view of the San Francisco marina and Golden Gate bridge.
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