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# Investigations Engineer - NYC at GPTZero

- **Company:** GPTZero
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $140k–$220k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/gptzero/2d580eee-2504-475e-8ded-4dc9eaa89f83

## Job description

GPTZero is on a mission to restore trust and transparency on the internet. As the leading AI detection platform, we empower educators, students, journalists, marketers, and writers to navigate the evolving landscape of AI-generated content. With millions of users and institutions relying on us, we’re building a category-defining company at the intersection of AI and information integrity.

Our team comes from high-performing engineering cultures, including Meta, Perplexity, AWS, Affirm, and leading AI research labs, including Princeton, Caltech, and Vector Institute.

## WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

Ready to work at the intersection of investigative journalism and AI? We're looking for software engineers to help us find and publish groundbreaking, front-page investigations on the rise and threat of AI slop. You’ll work on building and running the research engine that we used to find undisclosed hallucinations and AI-generated content on the web. Our work so far has produced widely covered reports examining published output from the world’s top consulting firms, and academic publishing venues, earning front-page coverage in the Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/a61cbcae-95e4-4449-86e1-ef40fb306f4e?syn-25a6b1a6=1, Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelwells/2026/07/31/pwc-reports-caught-with-ai-slop-is-a-warning-to-every-worker-right-now/, The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/08/03/consultants-face-backlash-over-ai-plans/, Bloomberg https://news.bloombergtax.com/financial-accounting/pwc-middle-east-reports-slammed-for-irresponsible-ai-use, The Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/europes-big-4-cant-stop-making-embarrassing-ai-mistakes-pwcs-thought-leadership-report-forgets-chatgpt-cannot-be-a-source/articleshow/132734570.cms, and other notable media. The ideal candidate is adept at building pipelines for processing web-scale content, skilled at creating polished reports and visuals, and has a strong instinct for recognizing newsworthy findings.

## WHAT YOU’LL CONTRIBUTE

- Use our AI detection and hallucination detection models to find compelling examples of AI slop on the internet and in publishing
- Synthesize data into well-written prose, compelling visualizations and interactive user experiences (vibecoding permitted)
- Build search engine query generators and targeted crawlers for document collection on the web.
- Build automations to monitor social feeds and generate leads
- Craft machine learning ranking and classification systems to detect documents that have fabrications using LLMs.
- Create data processing pipelines that can operate robustly at scale
- Help improve our models based on how they perform on new domains and investigations we pursue

## QUALIFICATIONS

- Ability to tell creative and compelling stories using data
- 2+ YOE in Python for developing resilient data pipelines and long-running jobs.
- 1+ YOE in SQL for data management, ideally PostgreSQL
- Data analysis and visualization to analyze results and create plots that communicate findings to stakeholders.
- Experience with web scraping and search at scale, including search, LLM, OCR, and data crawling tools
- Experience with basic cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS)
- Entrepreneurial spirit in being able to bootstrap different approaches of data acquisition, speaking with stakeholders and identifying newsworthy content.
- Bonus
- Ability to build / vibecode webpages to display results
- Applied ML for ranking and calibration.
- Infrastructure-as-code and container tooling experience.
- OSINT and evidence verification experience.
- Ability to find data when others cannot
- Experience working with media and journalists.

## WHO YOU'LL BE JOINING

## Our Team

You will be working directly with

- Alex https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-cui-caltech (our CTO) R&D at Uber self-driving division and Facebook, 3 patents in ML, won Best ML Hack at Stanford's 2019 and 2021 Hackathons
- George https://linkedin.com/in/george-a-23ba02107/ (our AI research lead) PhD from University of Toronto and ex-AWS research.
- Edward https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-tian (our CEO, ex-Bellingcat, Microsoft, BBC investigative journalism) to craft the messages we send to our community, and shape the GPTZero brand.

Additionally, you will be working with an experienced (eg. ex-Google, Meta, Microsoft, Bloomberg ML, Uber, Vector, MILA), diverse (eg. an engineering team with both Y-combinator and Obama scholarship recipients, a designer with art featured in the Met), and driven (eg. an operator who has scaled a company to 100M+ revenue and is committed to doing it again) group of individuals, described by one investor as one of the strongest founding teams seen in their career.

Together, we are committed to making a permanent impact on the future of writing, and on humanity

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At GPTZero, our recruiting team is involved in every step of the hiring process. We use AI-based tools to help us to accelerate candidates at the resume review stage by marking when candidates met certain key criteria. These tools are never the final say in a hiring decision - humans are.

## About GPTZero

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: GPTZero provides the leading AI-text identification platform that detects whether content was written by large language models like ChatGPT, serving over 2.5 million users worldwide.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Edward Tian (CEO) and Alex Cui (CTO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: AI Content Detection & Information Transparency
- Target customers: B2B (education, hiring, publishing, legal, cybersecurity) and B2C (individuals checking AI-generated text)
- Mission/purpose: “Restore information quality and transparency on the internet” and “preserve what’s human, for humans.”

## Products & Services
- **AI Scan**: Deep analysis of text to determine AI probabilities, vocabulary patterns, and sentence-level detection (SaaS).
- **Authorship Verification**: Tools to verify the origin of documents across writing samples (SaaS).
- **Transparency Solutions**: Custom workflows and no-code integrations for teachers, publishers, and organizations to foster academic integrity and responsible AI adoption (SaaS/Platform).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed (latest funding round: Series A, June 2024)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – $13.5M over 2 rounds (Seed $3.5M led by Uncork Capital & Neo Capital; Series A $10M led by Footwork)
- **Annual Revenue**: Approximately $1.0M (as of latest available data)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Footwork (lead Series A), Uncork Capital, Neo Capital, and 6 institutional investors and 3 angel investors including Yazan Mimi.
- **Growth Signals**: 106 employees (monthly headcount growth: +1.4%), presence in 27 countries, offices in New York City, Canada, and other global hubs, 2.5M+ users served, partnerships with 100+ organizations.

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover & scale**: One of the most widely used AI detection tools, trained on a large, diverse corpus of human-written and AI-generated English prose.
- **Granular detection**: Offers sentence, paragraph, and document-level AI identification, which is more nuanced than many competitors.
- **Trusted by institutions**: Used by educators, hiring managers, publishers, and legal professionals, giving it deep vertical integration in high-stakes decision-making environments.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expanding beyond education** into hiring, publishing, legal, and cybersecurity — reflected in job postings for data scientists, ML engineers, and a Head of Marketing for B2C.
- **Responsible AI adoption**: Developing transparency tools to help organizations verify content origin without stifling innovation.
- **International growth**: With operations in 27 countries, the company is scaling its global footprint and hiring talent worldwide.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & mission**: Employees rate culture 5.0/5.0 (based on 1 review), emphasizing a purpose-driven environment focused on information integrity.
- **Growth opportunities**: High headcount growth rate (1.4% monthly) and active hiring across 12+ open roles – from founding data scientists to software engineers and interns.
- **Remote & global**: Hybrid/remote-friendly with a distributed team across the US, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Offices available in New York City and other locations.
- **Notable perks**: Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI at scale; internal movement and early-career mentoring from experienced leaders.

## Sources
1. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/GPTZero)
2. [apify.com](https://apify.com/) (company profile data aggregated by Apify – original source includes revenue, funding, headcount)
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/gptzero)
4. [support.gptzero.me](https://support.gptzero.me/articles/1087723304-what-is-gptzero)
5. [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/gptzero/__J8D_MYDskL-fbrszeOIo77YbxrObqpjnSo7PQJQ3Cy4)

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