Academia.edu is a repository of academic articles that is free for visitors to read. The for-profit company, which also operates under the name Academia Inc., constantly works toward its mission to make every academic paper ever published available for free and accessible by everyone in the world. As an employer, Academia.edu has offered full-time, 100% remote jobs in HR & recruiting, research, internet & ecommerce, graphic design, and science. Depending on the role, team members may be eligible for perks and benefits, including parental leave, stock options, flexible spending accounts, paid time off, book stipends, commuter benefits, and 401(k) plans. The company’s 90-person team, which includes 40 software engineers, values curiosity and initiative and aims to foster a culture of employee growth. All team members can work remotely from anywhere in the United States.

Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Academia.edu was founded in 2008. As of early 2022, the site has more than 180 million registered users, including 300,000 paying subscribers and more than 35 million papers are available. The company is venture-backed by an array of VC firms, including Spark Capital and True Ventures, and it has appeared in Fortune magazine, Forbes magazine, The Washington Post, Wired magazine, and TechCrunch. While Academia.edu is not an institution of higher learning, it is allowed to maintain its domain name because it was registered in 1999, before laws regarding .edu domain names took effect.

Academia.edu is a repository of academic articles that is free for visitors to read. The for-profit company, which also operates under the name Academia Inc., constantly works toward its mission to make every academic paper ever published available for free and accessible by everyone in the world. As an employer, Academia.edu has offered full-time, 100% remote jobs in HR & recruiting, research, internet & ecommerce, graphic design, and science. Depending on the role, team members may be eligible for perks and benefits, including parental leave, stock options, flexible spending accounts, paid time off, book stipends, commuter benefits, and 401(k) plans. The company’s 90-person team, which includes 40 software engineers, values curiosity and initiative and aims to foster a culture of employee growth. All team members can work remotely from anywhere in the United States.

Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Academia.edu was founded in 2008. As of early 2022, the site has more than 180 million registered users, including 300,000 paying subscribers and more than 35 million papers are available. The company is venture-backed by an array of VC firms, including Spark Capital and True Ventures, and it has appeared in Fortune magazine, Forbes magazine, The Washington Post, Wired magazine, and TechCrunch. While Academia.edu is not an institution of higher learning, it is allowed to maintain its domain name because it was registered in 1999, before laws regarding .edu domain names took effect.