Senior Frontend Engineer

About the role:

You.com is an innovative AI productivity tool designed to help you get more done.

The platform was founded by prominent AI researchers Richard Socher, former Chief Scientist at Salesforce and a TIME100 AI honoree for 2023, and Bryan McCann, specializing in deep learning and natural language processing.

Recognized as one of Time’s “Best Inventions” of 2022 and listed among Fortune’s 50 AI Innovators in 2023, you.com pioneered the first search engine to integrate a consumer-facing LLM with direct internet access, providing accurate, verifiable, and up-to-date responses.

We are hiring a world-class team of software engineers to architect, implement, and deploy a consumer-facing product that harnesses AI to surface trusted information for more confident user decisions.

In these nascent stages, you must be comfortable experimenting rapidly: working with the founding team to implement new, experimental interfaces and ultimately deploy the best solution in regular, early product releases.

While you can execute implementation and experimentation independently, you thrive in collaborative environments. You can integrate active user feedback into your vision for the product and work with designers and engineers to bring your vision to You.com.

What you need: 

• You have experience designing, implementing, running, and maintaining production front-end code using React, NextJS, CSS, and other frameworks
• You have experience testing complex fullstack applications using tools like Cypress and Storybook
• You have experience with scalable, user-facing applications that require complex state management, real-time user events, and intricate UI/UX for both mobile and desktop
• You can quickly iterate with product and design teams as part of a tight user-validated feedback loop
• You’re passionate about details; you strive for pixel-perfect front-end code and lightning-fast load times
• You understand the importance of reliable monitoring, deployment strategies, and a highly scalable and robust cloud infrastructure
• You have experience with best practices and patterns that allow the most skilled engineering teams to communicate effectively and deliver quickly and regularly
• You want to write high-quality code and build a world-class engineering team
• You are electrified by the possibilities and challenges of rapidly shipping and iterating on user-facing code and building a consumer application with high public visibility
• You have a strong portfolio, whether it is a collection of professional, academic, or personal projects taking the form of production code, published papers, or open-source contributions

Culturally:

• You are a kind, friendly person and strive to create a kind, inclusive workplace filled with smiles and laughter
• You take and give feedback graciously as part of growing individually and as a team
• You will take joy in collaborative brainstorming and proposing novel extensions
• You want to play an active role throughout the process of delivering your work to users
• You are always willing to learn what you do not know
• You are dependable and take pride in your work
• You enjoy jumping in to help others with whatever part of the product they are building
• You want to be part of defining and building a team around a vision and technology that has a direct path to improving the daily lives of people worldwide.

Our Compensation:

• The role is considered a P3 in our role-leveling system inspired by PAVE
• Equity-eligible role
• You.com offers location-based compensation. Here are a few examples of what the annual salary for this role could look like if you are located in one of these locations:
  • US Tier 1: $200k-$235k USD
  • US Tier 2: $185k-$220k USD
  • US Tier 3: $185k-$220K USD

About You.com:

With a deep foundation in search, You.com is truthful, accurate, and transparent and addresses hallucinations.

You.com was founded by leading AI research scientists Richard Socher and Bryan McCann. Richard was previously the Chief Scientist at Salesforce and is the third most-cited researcher in natural language processing (NLP) with over 170,000 citations. Bryan was a lead research scientist at Salesforce Research, specializing in deep learning and NLP. Over the years, Richard and Bryan’s collaborative research has had significant implications for NLP, particularly in word vectors, contextual vectors, and prompt engineering. Richard's contributions were recently recognized with his inclusion in Time Magazine’s TIME100 AI list in 2023 as one of the “most influential people in AI” and the prestigious 2023 ACL Test-of-Time Paper Award for his influential research published in 2013.

Since its founding, You.com has transformed how people discover and engage with information online as an AI Assistant that helps people accomplish and solve everyday needs. Recognized as one of Fortune Magazine’s 50 AI Innovators for 2023 and featured in Time Magazine’s “Best Inventions of 2022,” You.com has pioneered many solutions for Large Language Model (LLM) challenges, especially around trust and accuracy. You.com notably introduced the first consumer-facing LLM with access to the internet to provide up-to-date answers and include citations. You.com's API further enables other LLM-based chatbots to improve their accuracy with real-time web access. You.com also emphasizes personalized AI chat experiences, offering tailored responses based on users’ backgrounds, interests, and preferences while respecting privacy and ensuring transparent control over personal data.

You.com is accessible on desktop, Chrome web extensions, iOS and Android apps, and WhatsApp.

Our Perks:

• A remote-first work environment with hubs in California, NYC, and Canada that offer monthly in-person gatherings
• Unlimited PTO with 11 U.S. holidays observed and a week shutdown in December to rest and recharge
• A competitive health insurance plan covers 100% of the policyholder and 75% for any dependents
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave in the US; additional time off is also considered
• 401k program, 3% match coming January 2025 - no vesting period
• $500 work-from-home stipend to be used up to a year of your start date
• $1,200 / year Health & Wellness Allowance to support your personal goals
• In-person coworking weeks 1 to 2 times a year 
• Chance to collaborate with a team at the forefront of AI research

You.com is an inclusive, equitable, and accessible workplace. Please let us know if you require accommodation for any portion of the recruitment and hiring process.