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# Open Application at Onton

- **Company:** Onton
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2025-03-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/onton/9b9c457f-8d94-465c-80e9-d9ef7fa42c05

## Job description

Our mission at Onton is to help people make decisions they love, instantly. We’re tackling the most economically impactful decisions first: the average shopping journey takes 79 days, and we’re taking that to less than 1. Since our public launch in late 2023, we've grown exponentially to guide millions of users to their perfect product.

We recently built the foundation of a neurosymbolic AI agent that learns more about the world on every search. You have the chance to solve equally difficult problems as you scale Onton 10x over the next few months to serve 1B+ searches/year, which is just the beginning. Don't see a role that's a perfect fit for you? That's ok - we'd still love to hear from you! Click apply below and it'll ask some basics and for your resume.

Onsite Interviews Our final round of interviews is conducted onsite at our SF office, and this role requires full-time, in-person collaboration. We believe that the best work happens when our team is together, fostering creativity, spontaneous collaboration, and strong relationships.

If you’re unable to attend the interviews onsite or work onsite full-time, this position may not be the right fit. We want to ensure all candidates have a clear understanding of our work environment before applying, so everyone’s time is respected throughout the process.

Location Our team works in hybrid, 3 days a week, in our new office in San Francisco (Jackson Square). We’re offering relocation compensation as we build density in this area.

We have a tenure system where, after a year, any team member can transition to a fully remote, provided they operate primarily on Pacific Time.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Statement We hire talented and passionate people from diverse backgrounds to ensure our global workforce reflects our customers. Even if your experience doesn't perfectly match every requirement in the job description, we encourage you to apply. If you're a builder at heart who shares our values and is passionate about making software tools accessible to all, we want to hear from you.

Onton is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or employment decisions based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics. We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans during our application process. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact your recruiter.

## About Onton

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI-powered e-commerce search and discovery
- **Target customers**: B2C shoppers (consumer-facing), though the technology could also serve e-commerce platforms
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Help people make decisions they love, instantly.”

## Products & Services
- **[Onton AI Search Engine]**: A next-generation product search and discovery engine that uses a neurosymbolic AI agent to learn from every search, delivering highly accurate, personalized product recommendations. Available as a consumer web application.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $10M+ (most recent round led by a top-tier firm)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lead investor not named; supporting investors include individuals with backgrounds from Google, Amazon, OpenAI, Stitch Fix, Whatnot, Stripe, Honey, and Shopify
- **Growth Signals**: “Exponential” growth since public launch in late 2023, now guiding millions of users; small team of 5 with plans to scale; recent breakthrough in neurosymbolic AI that dramatically increases search accuracy

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary neurosymbolic AI agent** that continuously learns and improves with each search, offering a level of accuracy and personalization that general search engines cannot match
- **Dramatically reduces shopping decision time** from 79 days to less than 1 day, solving a massive consumer pain point
- **Founding team with deep expertise**: Stanford graduates, Pioneer Winners, and On Deck Fellows with combined 20+ years of experience in NLP and e-commerce technology at high-growth companies

## Strategic Focus
- Continue building the next generation of product search and discovery, expanding into new product categories
- Improve the AI agent’s ability to learn and adapt, making every interaction “as accurate as talking to an expert and as easy as asking for a recommendation from a friend”
- Scale the team and user base while maintaining a high-velocity, ownership-driven culture

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Scrappy, high-velocity team that “ships constantly,” biases toward action with rapid recovery, and values ownership, high performance, and freedom to take risks
- **Work model**: Hybrid – at least 3 days per week in one of two hubs (San Francisco, CA or Salt Lake City, UT); relocation assistance offered
- **Perks**: Top-tier health, vision, and dental insurance (US); 401k plan; productivity stipend; commuter stipend; 2x annual full-team offsites; competitive salary and equity packages
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on solving hard problems iteratively, building with craft while maintaining velocity; strong focus on user value and cutting non-essential work

## Sources
1. [onton.com](https://onton.com/)
2. [onton.com/about-us](https://onton.com/about-us)
3. [careers.onton.com](https://careers.onton.com/)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/onton](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/onton)

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