TL;DR
[Lantern](https://github.com/lanterndata/lantern) is a PostgreSQL vector
database extension for building AI applications.
We are hiring a core database engineer by October 10, 2023.
More information below:
### About the company
Lantern is one of 11 first AI companies to be accepted early into the Y
Combinator W2024 batch, and we just raised a $1.6M pre-seed round!
💡 Our investors include
* Gustaf Alstromer (Group Partner, Y Combinator)
* Jared Friedman (Group Partner, Y Combinator)
* Diana Hu (Group Partner, Y Combinator)
* Umur Cubukcu (Visiting Group Partner, Y Combinator)
* Wayfinder Ventures
* Christopher Golda
* Jeremy Edberg (Employee #1, Reddit)
* Sung Ho Choi (Co-founder, Fubo)
* Shaan Puri (Co-founder, My First Million)
* Chris Prucha (Co-founder, Notion and Origin)
The founders are two-time Y Combinator founders. We are a team of engineers
and builders — and we're full of ambition and energy. We're looking for
creative people to join us.
### Where are we today:
> Here's a HackerNews post about us posted recently with more info:
> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37499375>
>
TL;DR
1. Better performance and more features than pgvector, the most popular postgreSQL vector database
2. Pgvector has been around for 29-months. **We got further along in just 2-months!**
3. We are looking to widen the lead and be the best PostgreSQL database for building vector applications
### This is a cool opportunity because:
AI is going to impact every single enterprise in every single industry.
1. AI is the fastest growing category of startups.
2. Vector databases are the fastest growing category of databases.
3. Vector databases allow businesses to tap into unstructured data (audio, images, videos, medial records, documents) and build AI applications.
4. We're going to ship super fast.
5. We can compensate well, we compensate in the upper band.
### Here's who we're looking for:
1. Experience with significant projects in C / C++ is a MUST.
2. Experience with Rust can be good also!
3. You're enthusiastic about Lantern. You have the energy!
4. You can take things from 0 to 1, and you want to take something from 1 to IPO
5. Experience with distributed systems, databases, or open-source projects would be helpful
6. Working knowledge of operating systems and networking
### Some details about responsibilities:
1. Build new database capabilities, performance optimizations across key database metrics
2. Implementation of vacuuming, query and storage optimizations
3. Build analytics and tools to help developers (version control, A/B testing, auto-tune index construction parameters)
4. Develop, test, and release new features and functionality from our database technical roadmap.
### How to apply:
1. **Review details below, and send your resume to[support@lantern.dev](mailto:support@lantern.dev)**
2. Check out our repository (<https://github.com/lanterndata/lantern>)
3. Tell us about your experience with C, operating systems, database internals!
4. If you're a good fit, we will schedule a 15-minute chat to learn more and share details.
5. Afterwards, we ask that you make contributions to the repository, which helps us evaluate technical fit
If you take on a larger project, we can ensure that you get compensated for
your engagement.
We look forward to hearing from you
Lantern (YC W2024) focuses on Artificial Intelligence, Databases, Developer
Tools, and Cloud Infrastructure. Their company has offices in San Francisco.
They have a small team that's between 1-10 employees.
You can view their website at <https://lantern.dev>
