AI Engineer - Unusual Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area • Full Time
Posted 18d ago
Job Location
San Francisco Bay Area
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
On-site
Employment Type
Full Time
Categories
AI Engineer
About the job
Unusual Ventures is seeking an AI Engineer to join their team. This role involves building AI-powered agents and pipelines to enhance talent intelligence, sourcing, and research for their portfolio companies. You will also develop tools for diligence support, firm knowledge management, operations automation, and portfolio support, directly impacting the firm's usefulness to the founders they back. The position emphasizes building practical solutions that address real user problems and iterating quickly.
Responsibilities
- Develop agents and pipelines for talent intelligence, enrichment, and ranking.
- Create tools to identify promising companies and founders early.
- Build context-aware research assistants for partner preparation.
- Develop workflows to accelerate market maps, competitive analysis, and memo drafting.
- Make firm knowledge searchable and useful by integrating various data sources.
- Automate operations such as portfolio reporting and LP updates.
- Create reusable AI playbooks and tools for portfolio company support.
Requirements
- 3-6 years of software engineering experience.
- 1-2 years of experience shipping LLM-powered products or internal tools to production.
- BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong Python skills (TypeScript is a plus).
- Comfortable across the full stack, including data pipelines, APIs, and front-end development.
- Hands-on experience with LLM APIs, retrieval, agents/tool use, and evaluation.
- Demonstrated product taste through user interaction and iterative development.
- Experience working with messy real-world data (CRMs, email, calendars, third-party data).
- Clear communication skills to explain technical tradeoffs to non-technical partners.
- Self-directed with the ability to set priorities with light direction.