AI Engineer - Unusual Ventures

🏢 Unusual Ventures · 📍 San Francisco Bay Area · 💼 onsite · ⏰ Full Time

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Position Summary & Responsibilities

About Unusual

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.

About the Role

We're hiring our first AI Engineer to build the internal systems that can help our small team operate with scalable leverage. You'll 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.

You'll be our first engineer. That means real ownership and a lot of trust, and it also means you'll set the technical standards, choose the stack, and decide what's worth building.

This is a builder role. We care more about solving the underlying problem well than wiring together the newest APIs. You'll have real ownership, direct access to partners and operators, and a short path from idea to production.

From time to time you'll also work directly with portfolio companies: helping founders scope an AI feature, pressure-test their technical approach, or stand up an internal workflow.

🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For Unusual Ventures Applicants

Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Evaluating venture capital pattern-matching ability, early-stage thesis conviction, and proactive founder-network building.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):

1. Passive sourcing mentality or waiting for inbound deals instead of hunting outbound
2. Superficial understanding of early-stage unit economics and cap table dynamics
3. Arrogance or dismissing founders during pitch evaluation roleplays

✨ Recommended Role Alignment Hook:

I partner with outlier early-stage founders by combining rigorous technical due diligence with aggressive, hands-on GTM acceleration.

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