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Backend Engineer

Channel3 · New York, NY, US · On-site

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About Channel3

Database of every product on the internet. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

Write code to understand 1B products . We stitch together the latest language, embedding, image, and segmentation models to build a true understanding of each and every product. Product pages vary greatly across retailers. We’ve built a computer-vision system that can understand any PDP, with no custom code or manual intervention on any site.

What they're looking for

  • Understanding what variants a product comes in might be even harder. We want to know what colors and sizes every shirt comes in, and what configurations customers can order for a new couch
  • Lately, we’ve been ideating about how to return “good” results, which we’ve learned is not just the highest keyword/semantic match
More about this role

Channel3 is building a database of every product on the internet — structured data that lets AI agents understand, compare, and shop. We plan to become the central node of agentic commerce, powering every AI transaction and taking a cut of GMV. We see Channel3 becoming as foundational to AI commerce as Stripe is to payments or Plaid is to fintech.

AI became smart and cheap enough to structure the world's messy product data. Agentic commerce is projected to drive $3–5T globally by 2030, and it's bottlenecked by bad data.

Alex (CEO) and George (CTO) have been friends since the first day of Duke. Alex began coding at 9, started his first company at 12, and most recently led AI projects at studio.com , where he got this idea. George published research on automating astronomy with robots at 18, and worked on big-data problems at Palantir for the past 2 years.

Unfortunately, we are not able to sponsor visas at this time. You must have authorization to work in the US.

  • We’ve indexed 100M+ products
  • 2,000+ developers have started using our API
  • We’re scoping pilots with some serious enterprise customers
  • We’ve partnered with 5,000+ brands, including Walmart, Best Buy, and Home...

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