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About Consensus:

Consensus is building the OS for research. Today, our academic search engine helps 8 million students, researchers, and doctors analyze scientific papers and complete literature reviews 10x faster.

Our Series A was led by USV, with major participation from top AI investors, including Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross. Consensus has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The New York Times, Nature, and a16z as one of today’s most exciting and important AI startups.

Our mission is to empower the world to understand, create, and apply good science. Help us build the future of research.

Role: Growth Engineer to design, build, and iterate on product features that drive activation, retention, and engagement across our AI-powered research platform.

Responsibilities:

• Ship growth-focused features and experiments like personalized queries, new paper recommendations, SEO experiments, and re-engagement emails that reduce time-to-first-search and bring users back.
• Own the full loop: build features, instrument funnels, run A/B tests, analyze impact, and collaborate with product/growth/design to prioritize the highest-ROI bets.
• Contribute to general full stack web app development for other parts of the core product.

Qualifications:

• 4+ years of full-stack engineering experience (ideally in startups or other fast-paced environments)
• Deep experience with Next.js, TypeScript, FastAPI, Python, Postgres, and common SaaS tools (auth, payments).
• Familiarity with our experimentation stack or similar services: MixPanel, StatSig
• Track record of high-velocity experimentation and delivery
• Sharp prioritization and focus on the high-leverage problems without overengineering
• Interest in the product and mission: science, research, education

Compensation:

• $160-$230k cash
• Competitive Series A equity

Final offers are determined by multiple factors and may vary from the amounts listed above.