Raycaster

AI for life sciences documents

Founding Engineer (In-Person)

$100K - $160K2.00% - 10.00%New York, NY, US
Job type
Full-time
Role
Engineering, Full stack
Experience
3+ years
Visa
US citizen/visa only
Skills
Go, Python, TypeScript, Google Cloud, Distributed Systems, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Levi Lian
Levi Lian
Founder

About the role

What you’ll do

  • Maintain the core: agent orchestration + document pipelines + versioning
  • Ship end-to-end: Go backend + React UI (you’ll touch everything)
  • Make it reliable: evals, guardrails, observability (no demo-only systems)
  • Turn customer pain into product fast (you’ll talk to users)

What we care about

  • You’ve built and shipped real systems (Go/Rust preferred). You can own a subsystem.
  • You’re strong on fundamentals: distributed systems, concurrency, performance
  • You’ve shipped AI/LLM features in production, and you learn new things insanely fast and can prove it
  • You have high attention to detail + high standards
  • You have product taste: you notice UX/copy/states, not just code
  • If you don’t know something, you figure it out in hours - not weeks

Nice to have: interest in biotech, healthtech, or any regulated industry

Research angle (optional)

We’re working on agent / domain-specific evals, new embeddings and indexing benchmarks, and may publish benchmarks / deep dives and submit to conferences / journals. If you want to help set standards for this space, there’s room.

Logistics

  • NYC, in-person, 5 days/week (we build better together)
  • Competitive base + founder-level equity (2–10%)

Apply: send (1) GitHub / past systems you built, and (2) one paragraph on why you’re interested in working at Raycaster to founders [at] raycaster.ai

About the interview

45m technical → 60m deep dive → 90m pairing → 1-week paid work trial → founder chat

About Raycaster

Raycaster is the first AI-native document workspace (Cursor for Documents) for high-stakes work, starting in life sciences (CMC, quality, regulatory). Instead of 47 versions of a Word doc in someone’s inbox, customers get a single living dossier: thousand-page PDFs, flows, and clinical data in one place - searchable and kept in sync.

We’re backed by YC, leading life sciences investors (behind companies like Oscar Health and Mammoth Bio), and execs from Definitive Healthcare, Colossal Biosciences, and IQVIA. We’re already working with enterprise customers globally.

Raycaster
Founded:2024
Batch:F24
Team Size:3
Status:
Active
Location:New York
Founders
Levi Lian
Levi Lian
Founder