About the role
The vast majority of enterprise data is in files like PDFs and spreadsheets. That includes everything from financial statements to medical records. Reducto helps AI teams turn those really complex documents into LLM-ready inputs with exceptional accuracy.
Hundreds of companies have signed up to use Reducto since our launch, and we’re now processing tens of millions of pages every month for teams ranging from startups to Fortune 10 enterprises. We’re hiring founding software engineers to help us continue to serve our customers as we build the ingestion layer that connects human data with LLMs.
We would love to meet you if you:
- Philosophy: You are your own worst critic. You have a high bar for quality and don’t rest until the job is done right—no settling for 90%. We want someone who ships fast, with high agency, and who doesn't just voice problems but actively jumps in to fix them.
- Experience: You have 2 to 5 years of experience with training, fine tuning, and evaluating ML models used in production systems
- Language/Skills: You’re exceptional at Python or similar, and are well versed with both traditional computer vision and VLMs
- Tools: Build your own tools as needed—like a quick Streamlit app to test hypotheses or create a dataset.
- Approach: A quantitative approach to building products. Ability to debug, experiment, and iterate fast. You should be comfortable getting hands-on with the full development lifecycle, from ideation to shipping to users.
The core work will include:
- Training and deploying new state of the art models for parsing and interpreting unstructured data
- Experimenting with novel techniques to improve LLM accuracy
- Build data pipelines, evaluate model performance, and integrate models into the product
- Working directly with the founders and customers to shape the product direction and engineering strategy
Bonus points if you:
- Have prior experience founding a company or building products at early stages
- Are ambitious and driven, and care a lot about doing great work with great people
- Keep up with the latest developments in ML/AI
This is an in person role at our office in SF. We’re an early stage company which means that the role requires working hard and moving quickly. Please only apply if that excites you.
About Reducto
Reducto is a Series B team in San Francisco, founded in 2023 by Adit Abraham (CEO) and Raunak Chowdhuri (CTO), who met at MIT. Chowdhuri had published computer vision papers with over 100 citations before finishing high school. The company went through YC Winter 2024 and has raised $108M from a16z, Benchmark, First Round, BoxGroup, and YC.
The machine learning team is eight people and reports to the CTO. It runs a mix of in-house models and larger open-source ones, and an ML tech lead role is expected to be filled around the new year. Engineering is in the office five days a week near Union Square and Market, which is intentional at this stage.
Culture signals that hold across every role here: high agency and self-direction, no settling for 90%, and attention to detail that matters concretely. In document parsing a comma versus a period turns $20,000 into 20.000, so sloppy work is a real red flag. Engineers are expected to hold technical conversations with enterprise customers, not just stay in the code.
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Job details
Salary
$150,000 - $240,000
Equity
0.1% - 1%
Location
San Francisco, CA
Experience
3+ years
Funding
Total raised
$108M
Last stage
Series B
Investors
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.
