Consensus

Consensus is an AI-powered search engine designed to make searching for and consuming scientific research papers easier. Our product was launched in the winter of 2022 and we currently serve millions of students, researchers, doctors and consumers alike from across the world.

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Consensus

consensus.app

HQUS

Team Size43

Open Jobs2

Total Funding-

Latest FundraiseUnknown

TL;DR

What they do: AI-powered search engine that indexes and synthesizes scientific research

Founding year: 2021

Founders / leadership: Christian Salem (Co‑founder, CPO) and Eric Olson (Co‑founder, CEO)

Corpus size: 200M+ research documents indexed

Business model: Consumer search app with paid Pro tiers and developer APIs

Reported funding: $110M round (reported) and total disclosed funding around $139M

Company Overview

Problem Domain

Scientific and academic literature search and synthesis

Founded

2021

Industry

Search / Research tools

Tech Stack

Language models / AI

Search indexing

APIs (developer-facing)

Funding Track Record

Reported $110M round- March 8, 2023

$110M

Reported by press as a large round; reported total after the round cited at about $139M

Seed- April 25, 2023

$3M

Company announcement listed participating investors including Kevin Carter, Brian Pokorny, Nomad Capital, Alumni Ventures, Winklevoss Capital and others

Series A- 2024

$11.5M

Company announcement listed participation from Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross and prior investors

Founders

What we do

TL;DR

Company Overview

Funding Track Record

Founders

What we do

Consensus

consensus.app

Consensus

consensus.app

HQUS

Team Size43

Open Jobs2

Total Funding-

Latest FundraiseUnknown

TL;DR

What they do: AI-powered search engine that indexes and synthesizes scientific research

Founding year: 2021

Founders / leadership: Christian Salem (Co‑founder, CPO) and Eric Olson (Co‑founder, CEO)

Corpus size: 200M+ research documents indexed

Business model: Consumer search app with paid Pro tiers and developer APIs

Reported funding: $110M round (reported) and total disclosed funding around $139M

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Company Overview

Problem Domain

Scientific and academic literature search and synthesis

Founded

2021

Industry

Search / Research tools

Tech Stack

Language models / AI

Search indexing

APIs (developer-facing)

Funding Track Record

Reported $110M round- March 8, 2023

$110M

Reported by press as a large round; reported total after the round cited at about $139M

Seed- April 25, 2023

$3M

Company announcement listed participating investors including Kevin Carter, Brian Pokorny, Nomad Capital, Alumni Ventures, Winklevoss Capital and others

Series A- 2024

$11.5M

Company announcement listed participation from Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross and prior investors

Founders

What we do

Join the Team

Data Engineer

HybridSan Francisco Bay Area, US

Hybrid • San Francisco Bay Area, US

About Consensus:

Consensus is building the OS for research. Today, our academic search engine helps 8 million students, researchers, and doctors analyze scientific papers and complete literature reviews 10x faster.

Our Series A was led by USV, with major participation from top AI investors, including Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross. Consensus has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The New York Times, Nature, and a16z as one of today’s most exciting and important AI startups.

Our mission is to empower the world to understand, create, and apply good science. Help us build the future of research.

Role: Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain the data pipelines and infrastructure that form the foundation of our product.

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Data Scientist

Full-timeAustin, US

Full-time • Austin, US

Mobile Developer

ContractUtrecht, NL

Contract • Utrecht, NL

Product Designer

Part-timeBerlin, DE

Part-time • Berlin, DE

Data Scientist

InternshipBelgrade, RS

Internship • Belgrade, RS

Product Designer

Part-timeAustin, US

Part-time • Austin, US

AI Researcher

InternshipNovi Sad, RS

Internship • Novi Sad, RS

3+ years building production data pipelines.
Strong SQL + Python.
Experience with distributed data processing (Databricks/Spark or similar).
Experience with an orchestrator (Dagster/Airflow/Prefect); Dagster is a plus.
Proven ability to ingest from multiple sources and produce clean, well-modeled datasets.
Familiar with GitHub + CI/CD and data observability practices (validation, logging, monitoring, error handling).
High ownership, fast execution, and good product instincts around how data impacts UX.
Interest in the product and mission: science, research, education