AnswerThis is hiring a Founding Engineering Lead to build AI agents that automate scientific research workflows. The YC-backed startup has 200,000+ researchers across universities and Fortune 500 companies using its platform, which searches, synthesizes, and drafts evidence-based research autonomously.

Scientists currently spend months on static literature reviews that become outdated instantly. AnswerThis aims to make research a living, compounding asset by continuously updating evidence packages as new papers and trial results emerge. The company crossed $1M ARR in 8 months and is now cash-flow positive.

The role requires shipping production AI systems under uncertainty, working directly with enterprise customers, and owning technical architecture end-to-end. The ideal candidate has led teams at startups, makes business-driven technical decisions, and wants to design engineering processes that scale from 3 to 10+ engineers.