About the role
About Discovery & Scout
The Discovery team sits at the core of Harmonic’s product and data engine. We make it possible to search, research, analyze, compare, and evaluate across the entire universe of startups (we track tens of millions of companies, hundreds of millions of operators and, tens of thousands of investors along with their deal activity, and counting). We source and ingest data from first-, second- and third-party sources, including hundreds of fragmented and unstructured sources, and turn them into structured insights and searchable indices. Recently, we built the industry leading agentic layer for startup search and research, that’s unlocking new paradigms for VCs to make sense of this vast amount of data on startups and automate critical tasks in their sourcing and diligence workflows.
We’re in the middle of a massive platform shift where AI and LLMs are transforming what "software" is. Agentic product- and user-experience patterns will be spelled out in playbooks before long – and we’re building those playbooks, not waiting for them. This includes conversational interfaces, deep research, dynamic agentic frameworks purpose built for venture, and AI-first product workflows.
We’re looking for folks that want to help redefine software and push on this frontier with deep curiosity, an insatiable growth mindset, and high agency.
To learn more about the team:
- Explore Working with Sang
- Check out your Scout focused teammates Austin, Yesh, and Kelvin
- Explore the Team Page. We’re a mix of ex-founders and seasoned engineers from top engineering institutions like Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft and Meta.
The role
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Architect the core intelligence behind Scout
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Own the end to end architecture of our sourcing engine from data ingestion, ranking, personalization, and model orchestration.
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Define scalable frameworks for retrieval, reranking, and LLM driven evaluation to ensure we deliver highly personalized and high quality results.