Evidence over volume
We prefer a well-supported point to a loud one, in product decisions and in team conversations.
CAREERS / GROUNLAB
Roles for the work ahead.
We are preparing a multidisciplinary team across AI, research, medicine, statistics, product, design, security, marketing, finance, and operations.
Hiring update Recruiting is currently paused. Formal applications will open here as positions are activated.
01 / Planned roles10 role briefs
01 AI SYSTEMSMachine Learning Engineer
THE MISSION
Build researcher-guided AI systems that are useful, inspectable, and controllable instead of opaque automation.
What you will own
- Design retrieval, reasoning, evaluation, and agent workflows across GrounLab products.
- Turn prototypes into observable, reliable production services with clear failure modes.
- Partner with researchers and domain experts to encode human review into system behavior.
- Measure quality, latency, cost, calibration, and evidence fidelity in real use.
What you will bring
- Strong Python and production ML engineering experience.
- Applied experience with LLMs, RAG, evaluation, embeddings, or multimodal systems.
- Evidence of shipping systems where correctness and traceability matter.
- Clear judgment about when AI should assist, defer, or stop.
02 DATA & EVALUATIONData Scientist
THE MISSION
Translate product behavior into evidence: what works, for whom, under which conditions, and with what uncertainty.
What you will own
- Define product metrics, offline evaluations, experiments, and decision-quality dashboards.
- Build datasets and labeling protocols with domain experts and research teams.
- Analyze user workflows while protecting privacy and avoiding misleading proxies.
- Communicate limitations, uncertainty, and tradeoffs to product and leadership.
What you will bring
- Advanced SQL and Python or R with strong statistical foundations.
- Experience designing experiments and evaluating ML or AI-assisted products.
- Skill in causal reasoning, measurement design, and honest data communication.
- A portfolio of analyses that changed a product or operating decision.
03 QUANTITATIVE SCIENCEBiostatistician
THE MISSION
Make rigorous study design and statistical reasoning accessible without flattening the judgment that good analysis requires.
What you will own
- Shape statistical workflows for study design, power, modeling, diagnostics, and reporting.
- Define guardrails that surface assumptions and prevent invalid or overconfident output.
- Review AI-generated analytical plans and create expert evaluation standards.
- Collaborate on reproducible R and Python methods, documentation, and examples.
What you will bring
- Graduate training in biostatistics, statistics, epidemiology, or a closely related field.
- Deep command of regression, inference, study design, and reproducible analysis.
- Experience supporting biomedical, clinical, or public-health research.
- Ability to explain sophisticated methods precisely to non-specialists.
04 PRODUCT ENGINEERINGSenior Full-Stack Software Engineer
THE MISSION
Turn complex research and teamwork systems into fast, dependable products that feel direct and understandable.
What you will own
- Ship end-to-end features across modern web clients, APIs, data systems, and cloud infrastructure.
- Build interfaces for documents, diagrams, collaboration, and AI-assisted workflows.
- Raise standards for accessibility, performance, observability, and testing.
- Simplify architecture while preserving security and product velocity.
What you will bring
- Substantial experience shipping production web applications across the stack.
- Strong TypeScript or JavaScript plus one server-side language.
- Fluency with relational data, APIs, cloud systems, and pragmatic system design.
- Product judgment demonstrated through useful, polished software.
05 PRODUCT DIRECTIONProduct Manager, Scientific Software
THE MISSION
Find the highest-value problems in research and knowledge work, then align people and evidence around solving them well.
What you will own
- Lead discovery with researchers, clinicians, readers, and technical teams.
- Write clear problem briefs, define outcomes, and sequence product bets.
- Coordinate design, engineering, domain review, launch, and learning loops.
- Protect product coherence across KScholar, HexReader, WeBoardit, and SciFigure.
What you will bring
- Experience leading complex B2B, scientific, health, or knowledge-work products.
- Strong research practice and the ability to distinguish requests from underlying needs.
- Technical fluency sufficient to reason about AI, data, and system tradeoffs.
- Writing that makes decisions, ownership, and uncertainty unmistakably clear.
06 DESIGN SYSTEMSSenior Product Designer
THE MISSION
Make powerful research systems feel calm, legible, and genuinely controlled by the person doing the work.
What you will own
- Design end-to-end workflows for evidence, reading, collaboration, and visual explanation.
- Prototype complex interactions and validate them with domain users.
- Build a coherent, accessible design system across the GrounLab portfolio.
- Define how AI communicates sources, uncertainty, state, and user control.
What you will bring
- A strong portfolio of complex tools, data products, or professional workflows.
- Exceptional interaction, information architecture, and visual design fundamentals.
- Fluency in prototyping and close collaboration with frontend engineering.
- Evidence that you reduce cognitive load without hiding essential complexity.
07 TRUST & QUALITYAI Research Scientist
THE MISSION
Stress-test scientific AI before users must rely on it and make integrity measurable throughout the product lifecycle.
What you will own
- Create evaluation suites for citation fidelity, reasoning quality, bias, and failure recovery.
- Design adversarial and expert-review studies across scientific workflows.
- Investigate incidents, document root causes, and turn findings into product controls.
- Track emerging research-integrity risks and translate them into operational standards.
What you will bring
- Research experience in AI evaluation, metascience, information science, or a related field.
- Skill designing reliable rubrics, annotation systems, and mixed-method studies.
- Deep skepticism paired with an ability to build practical solutions.
- Excellent scientific writing and cross-functional communication.
08 SECURITY & PRIVACYSecurity and Privacy Engineer
THE MISSION
Make strong privacy and security properties part of the product architecture, not a review added at the end.
What you will own
- Define secure architecture, threat models, data boundaries, and access controls.
- Build practical programs for vulnerability management, logging, incident response, and vendor review.
- Partner on privacy engineering and readiness for relevant assurance frameworks.
- Guide teams handling sensitive research, health-adjacent, and organizational data.
What you will bring
- Hands-on application or cloud security experience in production environments.
- Strong understanding of identity, encryption, secure SDLC, and privacy-by-design.
- Experience translating compliance expectations into usable engineering controls.
- Calm, precise judgment under uncertainty and during incident response.
09 BRAND & GROWTHMarketing and Social Media Manager
THE MISSION
Build a credible public presence for GrounLab and its products through clear, useful communication grounded in the work.
What you will own
- Develop the marketing calendar across social media, editorial content, email, launches, and community programs.
- Translate product capabilities and research topics into accurate, engaging stories for technical and professional audiences.
- Manage day-to-day social channels, publishing workflows, audience engagement, and brand consistency.
- Measure campaign and channel performance, report what is working, and improve the program through evidence.
What you will bring
- At least four years of marketing experience in B2B software, scientific technology, healthcare, or another knowledge-intensive field.
- Excellent writing, editing, content planning, and social media management skills.
- Experience running campaigns and using analytics to improve reach, engagement, and qualified demand.
- Sound judgment about scientific claims, audience trust, and responsible communication.
10 FINANCE OPERATIONSAccounting Assistant
THE MISSION
Keep GrounLab's daily financial records accurate, organized, and ready to support timely reporting and decisions.
What you will own
- Process invoices, expense records, customer payments, and vendor documentation.
- Maintain transaction records and assist with bank, card, and account reconciliations.
- Organize documentation for payroll, tax filings, monthly close, and external accounting support.
- Track open items, follow up on discrepancies, and keep financial files complete and audit-ready.
What you will bring
- At least two years of bookkeeping, accounts payable, accounts receivable, or accounting-support experience.
- Working knowledge of accounting fundamentals, spreadsheets, and small-business accounting software.
- Strong accuracy, organization, discretion, and follow-through with confidential information.
- Clear written communication and the judgment to escalate discrepancies promptly.
02 / HOW WE WORKPRINCIPLES BEFORE PERKS
A small team.
A high bar for clarity.
We want GrounLab to be a place where expertise is respected, disagreements become better decisions, and useful work matters more than performance theater.
Direct ownership
People closest to the problem receive context, authority, and responsibility for the result.
Human judgment stays visible
Automation should expand expert capacity while preserving review, provenance, and the right to override.
Craft serves usefulness
We care about polish because trustworthy tools should feel considered, legible, and dependable.
03 / HIRING PROCESS
A process designed
A process designed
to respect your time.
Each active role will publish its exact process, decision criteria, compensation range, and location expectations.
- 01
Complete role brief
Every opening will state the mission, responsibilities, location expectations, compensation range, and decision process.
- 02
Evidence review
We will review relevant work, writing, research, or shipped products rather than filtering for prestige signals alone.
- 03
Working conversations
You will meet the people and problems connected to the role. Any substantive exercise will be time-bounded and paid.
- 04
Clear decision
We will communicate the outcome directly and avoid unnecessary interview rounds or ambiguous holding patterns.