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$185,000.00/yr - $250,000.00/yr
About us
Harmonic is the startup discovery engine. We believe in innovation, entrepreneurs, and efficient capital markets. It pains us to see great startup opportunities consistently go undiscovered. So, we dedicated ourselves to mapping out the startup landscape and building the index and tools that ensure the most promising founders get found and funded.
The world's largest and most prolific venture capital firms rely on us to find and invest in the next Google, AirBnB, Uber, Stripe, and Anduril. We play a crucial part in ensuring hundreds of billions of dollars get routed efficiently and that the innovations the world would most benefit from materialize.
We've been growing steadily and need passionate driven people to help us get to the next level. If you want to work in a high-growth environment with some of the most talented folks on the planet and resonate with our values, read on.
About The Discovery Team
The discovery team is focused on making it delightfully easy for users to find the startups they're looking for. We source, transform and index terabytes of data, build models to make sense of the data, and build product experience to facilitate users actively and passively discovering startups at the right time. To learn more about the team:
What you'll do:
$185K - $250K Salary + Equity (flexible depending on the level)
Our stack
The Process
Here's our interview process:
Harmonic is the startup discovery engine. We believe in innovation, entrepreneurs, and efficient capital markets. It pains us to see great startup opportunities consistently go undiscovered. So, we dedicated ourselves to mapping out the startup landscape and building the index and tools that ensure the most promising founders get found and funded.
The world's largest and most prolific venture capital firms rely on us to find and invest in the next Google, AirBnB, Uber, Stripe, and Anduril. We play a crucial part in ensuring hundreds of billions of dollars get routed efficiently and that the innovations the world would most benefit from materialize.
We've been growing steadily and need passionate driven people to help us get to the next level. If you want to work in a high-growth environment with some of the most talented folks on the planet and resonate with our values, read on.
About The Discovery Team
The discovery team is focused on making it delightfully easy for users to find the startups they're looking for. We source, transform and index terabytes of data, build models to make sense of the data, and build product experience to facilitate users actively and passively discovering startups at the right time. To learn more about the team:
- Explore Working with Sang to understand decision-making processes related to the engineering function.
- Check our your teammates Jimmy, Akshaya, Simant, and Gavin!
- Explore the Team Page to get acquainted with the rest of the company.
What you'll do:
- Own our insights layer: build models and algorithms to generate first-party data. This will include using statistical and machine learning techniques, including LLMs, to generate derived insights as well as determine accurate values from error-prone sources (e.g. headcount information).
- Develop data products that improve the discoverability of startups in our database. Create and continually improve the similarity, relevance, and tagging algorithms that power our search engine.
- Use your knowledge and creativity to extract as much value out of our data as possible.
- Oversee general maintenance and health of data pipelines to ensure accurate and efficient transformations of our data.
- Collaborate with the team to devise product goals, outline milestones, and execute plans - achieving this with minimal guidance.
- 7+ years in Data Science or Data Engineering, or 5+ years industry experience + PhD.
- Fluency in Python and SQL.
- Experience with backend libraries and tools like dbt and dagster, familiarity with web servers, and comfort with large data sets.
- Ability to work 3 times/week in our Brooklyn (Williamsburg) office.
- Proven track record of shipping major projects for a data-centric startup.
$185K - $250K Salary + Equity (flexible depending on the level)
Our stack
The Process
Here's our interview process:
- (30 mins) Introduction Chat: Let's discuss whether Harmonic is the right place for you. We'll review your experience and allocate time for any questions you may have.
- (30 mins) Initial Technical Screen: A technical discussion where we deep dive into how you'd approach a few different problems. Don't worry, this won't be a LeetCode-style interview :)
- (~5 hours) Take-Home Exercise: We will send you a description of a challenge akin to ones you would face at Harmonic and ask you to come up with a creative solution. Understanding that schedules can be tight, you'll have a 48-hour window to complete this at your convenience.
- Interview Day: To streamline the process and respect your time, we try to consolidate the following into one day:
- (45 minutes each) Team interview: Meet with a member of our Product team to see how you would collaborate and Sang, our Head of Engineering, to make sure there is mutual culture fit.
- (2.5 hours) Engineering Jam Session: Detailed discussion of the take-home to measure technical skills. This will involve coding with 2-3 engineers on our team.
- (45 min) Get to know Max, our CEO!
- (Async) Reference Checks.
- 🩺 Top of the line health, dental and vision insurance, with 100% premium covered
- 📈 401k matching
- 🍜 Free lunch in office
- 🍣 Monthly team dinner (we have a lot of foodies) for each office
- 🚂 Commuter benefits
- 🧳 Quarterly company-wide offsites. Locations so far: Barcelona, Puerto Vallarta, Austin, & Salt Lake City
- 🌍 Offices in NYC, SF, & LA
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Seniority level
Mid-Senior level -
Employment type
Full-time -
Job function
Engineering and Information Technology -
Industries
Technology, Information and Internet
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