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title: 'Software Engineer at Paradigm'
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# Software Engineer at Paradigm

- **Company:** Paradigm
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $180k–$280k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-06-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/paradigmai/b6d0b95f-e034-4ba0-b682-b4ae2c72315b

## Job description

## ABOUT PARADIGM

Our mission is to build a new type of workspace that lets every knowledge worker leverage the power of LLMs to scale immense amounts of research in a simple and intuitive UI. Paradigm lets users utilize its purpose-built infrastructure to orchestrate hundreds of thousands of agents to process millions of tokens per minute, compressing days of research into seconds.

Our team must confront and solve problems unique to parallelizing agents at this magnitude, not limited to: race conditions for 10^5 agents writing to a data model simultaneously, realtime transmission of agent outputs across all services to the client, optimizing for both write throughput and in-memory footprint for each agent.

## What we’re looking for

- Experience as a software engineer.
- Consistent record an individual contributor to several medium to large projects.
- Consistent record as primary individual contributor to at least one medium scale project.
- Managed, designed and deployed distributed services in a production environment.
- Seen as a resource by peers who can help debug and answer questions.

What can set you apart

- We want your skills, not your title. We will prioritize those with a strong, demonstrated skillset over those who have learned to effectively climb the corporate ladder.
- You know how to convey complex concepts clearly, can facilitate difficult conversations, and ensure everyone is on the same page.
- Prior experience with: Go, Redis, PubSub, RPC, Postgres, S3, Temporal.

## What we believe

Our best work is done in person. The team works together 5 days a week in our office in SF.

## About Paradigm

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Paradigm is an AI platform that automates complex research workflows by deploying swarms of intelligent agents to gather, structure, and synthesize data with human-level accuracy.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed-stage)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, CA, USA
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Claire Oxner and Anna Monaco (Anna Monaco is current CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI-powered Research Automation / Enterprise Software
- **Target customers**: B2B – decision-makers, analysts, researchers in private equity, market research, sales, and operations
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Build a new type of agent-centric workspace that massively unlocks productivity” [paradigmai.com](https://www.paradigmai.com/careers)

## Products & Services
- **[Paradigm Platform]**: An agentic research workspace where users define workflows in natural language, and swarms of AI agents autonomously gather, cross-reference, and structure data from internal and external sources. Outputs are delivered as structured, cited spreadsheets or actions (e.g., syncing back to CRM). Features include role-based access controls, enterprise security, and audit trails. [paradigmai.com](https://www.paradigmai.com/)
- **Workflows & Templates**: Pre-built workflows for deal sourcing, market mapping, target evaluation, portfolio monitoring, competitive analysis, candidate ranking, and lead qualification. [paradigmai.com](https://www.paradigmai.com/)
- **Integrations**: Connects to internal data (spreadsheets, docs, CRMs), built-in data sources, and custom APIs. [paradigmai.com](https://www.paradigmai.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $7M raised across 2 rounds (Seed round led by General Catalyst on Aug 18, 2025) [Tracxn](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/paradigm/__UVxTMvO_u2zk2mO5l2lDdAfm4AKb0Ge1c6tQ4Cur-o4)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: General Catalyst, Y Combinator, Soma Capital, Pioneer Fund; angel investors include co-founders of Ramp and Dropbox [paradigmai.com](https://www.paradigmai.com/careers) [Tracxn](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/paradigm/__UVxTMvO_u2zk2mO5l2lDdAfm4AKb0Ge1c6tQ4Cur-o4)
- **Growth Signals**: 21 employees as of Apr 30, 2026; trusted by 10,000+ decision makers, analysts, and researchers; claims AI agents fill spreadsheets at 500 cells per minute [VentureBeat](https://venturebeat.com/) (Sep 2024); ranked 1st among 3 active competitors on Tracxn [Tracxn](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/paradigm/__UVxTMvO_u2zk2mO5l2lDdAfm4AKb0Ge1c6tQ4Cur-o4)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Agentic accuracy**: Built-in cross-referencing across multiple sources to reduce hallucination; auditable by design – every agent step is traceable [paradigmai.com](https://www.paradigmai.com/)
- **Speed and scale**: Runs workflows in parallel on 5 rows or 50,000, with cited outputs ready for decision-making.
- **Enterprise security**: Role-based access, no training on user data, audited and tested – designed for compliance-conscious buyers.
- **Founding team pedigree**: Founders from Google, MIT, Microsoft, Bridgewater, Vercel; backed by top-tier investors.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Scaling agentic research capabilities; expanding enterprise adoption (private equity, market research, sales); deepening integrations with internal data sources (Salesforce, CRMs); maintaining accuracy as the baseline while pushing the frontier of AI-driven automation.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Small, talent-dense team (21 people) with builders from Google, MIT, Microsoft, Bridgewater, and Vercel. Emphasis on frontier AI systems and pushing boundaries of intelligent software.
- **Work policy**: In-office in San Francisco, CA (remote work not mentioned; jobs listed as “In-Office” or “In Person”) [Built In](https://builtin.com/company/paradigm-paradigmaicom)
- **Notable perks**: Opportunity to work on cutting-edge agentic AI; direct impact on product direction; fast-paced startup environment with strong investor backing.
- **Current openings** (as of mid-2026): Growth Generalist, Senior Software Engineer, Business Operations, Product Marketer.

## Sources
1. [paradigmai.com – Careers](https://www.paradigmai.com/careers)
2. [paradigmai.com – Product](https://www.paradigmai.com/)
3. [Built In – Paradigm Company Profile](https://builtin.com/company/paradigm-paradigmaicom)
4. [Tracxn – Paradigm Company Profile](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/paradigm/__UVxTMvO_u2zk2mO5l2lDdAfm4AKb0Ge1c6tQ4Cur-o4)
5. [VentureBeat – Paradigm AI agents fill spreadsheets at 500 cells per minute](https://venturebeat.com/) (Sep 2024)

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