What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Engineering Intern position at Raycaster (YC F24)?
Raycaster is building research agents for science, starting with scientific sales.
The backdrop
The backdrop
- Selling to biotech companies requires understanding their science: combing through research papers, redlining patents, screening thousands of scientist LinkedIn profiles, etc for each prospective customer
- This work often requires a PhD salesperson to spend up to 30 % of their time manually doing these intellectually-consuming but manual workflows
- As a result, the pipeline for million-dollar deals is bottlenecked at the research point, even though AI can help make it dramatically easier
- Levi — Built enterprise AI systems @ Uber, Zoom, Stanford
- Anthony — Did engineering @ Apple, Meta, Snap
- Completed YC’s Fall 24 batch in December
- Featured on TechCrunch as a top company in the batch
- Our goal is not to compete in sales tech. We're going after scientific superintelligence, starting with the highest-leverage team - sales.
- A founder or are a former founder (CTO)
- Dislikes YC
- Passionate for science
- A little autistic
- [nice to have] Cracked at the ‘modern’ web stack (NextJS, Supabase, Vercel, serverless functions)
Salary : $80,000 - $160,000