Sr. Software Engineer, Growth

Department: Engineering

Location: NYC Hybrid

Compensation: $160K – $250K • Offers Equity

Employment Type: FullTime

GPTZero is on a mission to restore trust and transparency on the internet. As the leading AI detection platform, we empower educators, students, journalists, marketers, and writers to navigate the evolving landscape of AI-generated content. With millions of users and institutions relying on us, we’re building a category-defining company at the intersection of AI and information integrity.

Our team comes from high-performing engineering cultures, including Meta, Perplexity, AWS, Affirm, and leading AI research labs, including Princeton, Caltech, and Vector Institute.

What we're looking for

Senior engineers with a strong grasp of experimenation, 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. We are looking for someone who works fast shipping new features and UIs, driving experiments and growth loops while collaborating closely with our world-class design team.

Responsibilities

• Ship intuitive, AI-powered web applications from scratch in React

• Improve our product-led conversion funnel using analytics, user discovery, and latest methods

• Design and run expriments to optimize our growth funnel

• 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

• 5+ years of experience with modern JS web frameworks (React.js, Next.js, and Typescript)

• Experience collaborating closely with design teams to ensure seamless integration of design and functionality.

• Familiarity with high-traffic platforms or fast-paced startups, demonstrating expertise in optimizing web pages for scalability and user experience.

• Highly motivated to make positive societal impact

• Wear multiple hats and be a leader as our team grows

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

• US work eligibility or visa

• Bonus:

  • Strong open-source portfolio

  • Basic Figma Design Skills

  • Experience and technical knowledge optimizing on-page SEO 

  • 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. 

• Edward (CEO), data-powered investigative journalism at BBC and Bellingcat, threat intelligence at Microsoft, ML researcher at Princeton

• 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

• Hriday (Growth Lead), expert on taking products viral. Founded Wildfire, raised $3M, scaled it to 1M users and exited to Opendoor. Most recently, he worked on growth at Perplexity.

• Jacob (Full Stack), top of class at Waterloo, ex-Affirm, Lime, Level and Zynga

• Midhun Dandamudi (Full Stack), former India lead at Angelist, former co-founder of Nuance, Ex-Intuit/Bloomberg

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 team retreats and offsites

• 🏝 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. 

At GPTZero, our recruiting team is involved in every step of the hiring process. We use AI-based tools (such as Endorsed.ai and Juicebox.ai) to help us to accelerate candidates at the resume review stage by marking when candidates met certain key criteria. These tools are never the final say in a hiring decision - humans are.