Get the depth of qualitative interviews at the speed and scale of a survey with the power of AI-moderated research. Make better, faster decisions for your business. Backed by Y Combinator.
About the role
Own the evaluation infrastructure that tests competing modeling approaches, so that new tests can be set up quickly, run concurrently and automatically, and be monitored. Implement measurement pipelines exactly as specified by the scientists, with deterministic and traceable outputs. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Several years of software engineering experience, including experience supporting researchers in a lab or comparable setting
- Experience translating specific scientific requirements and experiment designs into code
- Experience building and operating large-scale data pipelines on human behavior data, and confirming that the pipelines matched the criteria and design the researchers specified
- Strong Python, including the ability to read and audit code produced by agentic coding tools
- Fundamentals of computing: file systems, software libraries, databases, SQL, tabular data, and Git-based workflows
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and with running many jobs concurrently
More about this role
Outset invented a better way to do research: AI-powered user interviews.
Global brands like Hubspot, Microsoft, Uber and Nestle use Outset to achieve deeper, qualitative insights about their users at unprecedented speed and scale.
The research industry is massive (>$140B and growing) and ripe for disruption. Incumbents are outdated, slow, and burdened by high-cost services. That's our opportunity.
Outset is backed by top Silicon Valley investors and raised a $30M Series B in December 2025—less than six months after our Series A—led by Radical Ventures with participation from M12 (Microsoft’s venture arm), 8VC, Y Combinator, and Adverb Ventures.
The raise follows a breakout year, with our business growing 8x as enterprise customers across industries adopt our category, AI‑moderated research, as the new standard for understanding people.
We’re a tight-knit team serving some of the world’s largest enterprises.
Outset builds digital twins: AI systems that represent specific real people and respond to research questions the way those people would. The Digital Twins Team runs an ongoing research program to measure and improve how faithfully these systems reproduce human responses and...
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