AI Engineer Unusual Ventures
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San Francisco, CA - USA
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Job Summary
Unusual Ventures is an early-stage venture firm that partners with exceptional enterprise software founders from pre-seed through Series B. We work hands-on with founders on go-to-market customer discovery and recruiting with one goal: helping companies find product-market fit.
We want AI built into how we source evaluate support and run the firm not bolted on.
Were hiring our first AI Engineer to build the internal systems that can help our small team operate with scalable leverage. Youll work across the firm investing talent platform founder services finance and operations finding the highest-leverage problems then designing building and shipping tools people use every day.
Youll be our first engineer. That means real ownership and a lot of trust and it also means youll set the technical standards choose the stack and decide whats worth building.
This is a builder role. We care more about solving the underlying problem well than wiring together the newest APIs. Youll have real ownership direct access to partners and operators and a short path from idea to production.
From time to time youll also work directly with portfolio companies: helping founders scope an AI feature pressure-test their technical approach or stand up an internal workflow.
Talent intelligence. Agents and pipelines that find enrich and rank engineering and GTM talent for our portfolio working closely with our Talent Partner to turn our recruiting judgment into repeatable systems.
Sourcing and research. Tools that surface promising companies and founders early and context-aware research assistants that draw on our CRM notes meeting history and market data to prep partners before a first meeting.
Diligence support. Workflows that speed up market maps competitive analysis customer-call synthesis and memo drafting without losing rigor.
Firm knowledge. Making what the firm already knows (thousands of founder and customer conversations past memos playbooks) searchable and useful.
Operations automation. Removing manual work from portfolio reporting LP updates and back-office processes in partnership with the CFO/O and VP Finance.
Portfolio support. Reusable AI playbooks and tools that our founder services team can deploy across portfolio companies.
36 years of software engineering experience with at least 12 years shipping LLM-powered products or internal tools to production
BS or MS in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience
Strong Python (TypeScript a plus); comfortable across the stack from data pipelines and APIs to a simple usable front end
Hands-on experience with LLM APIs retrieval agents/tool use and evaluation and a clear view on when each is the wrong tool
Product taste: you talk to users find the real problem ship something small and iterate
Experience working with messy real-world data (CRMs email calendars third-party data providers)
Clear communicator who can explain tradeoffs to non-technical partners and earn their trust
Self-directed: comfortable setting priorities with light direction
Experience building internal tools or intelligence products at a VC firm investment firm or data-heavy operations team
Early-stage startup experience or time as a founder
Familiarity with venture or enterprise software GTM
Experience with recruiting or people data
Public work open-source projects side projects writing that shows how you think and build
Small team high leverage. Your tools will be used daily by the whole firm and youll see the impact directly.
Build dont just integrate. Buy off the shelf when its the right call; build when the problem calls for it.
In person. We work together in the Bay Area office. Being close to the people using your tools is part of the job.
Founders first. Everything we build should ultimately make us more useful to the founders we back.
Send your resume or LinkedIn plus a short note about something youve built with AI that people actually use what the problem was what you shipped and what youd do differently. Links to code or demos are welcome.
Required Experience:
IC
About Company
Unusual Ventures is raising the bar for what founders should expect from their venture investors and enabling startups with the support they need to be successful.
