Unusual Ventures
Unusual Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm that backs enterprise software—especially AI—startups and works closely with technical founders to reach product-market fit. It pairs capital with hands-on help in recruiting, customer development, marketing, and sales through its in-house operating team. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, the firm leads seed rounds and focuses on building go-to-market foundations for early-stage companies.
Open Positions at Unusual Ventures
4 open positions
Build AI-powered products and internal tools that help a venture capital firm improve talent intelligence, sourcing, diligence, knowledge management, operations, and portfolio support. This hands-on role combines LLM application development with full-stack product engineering in a high-impact, in-person Bay Area environment.
Build the infrastructure behind Proxi’s document intelligence platform, from international web acquisition and multilingual processing to downstream publication. The role combines resilient data pipelines with real-time audio intelligence and secure, observable operation across cloud and restricted environments.
Build Proxi’s agent runtime and foundational systems for reliable, long-running, multi-agent workflows. You’ll develop tool infrastructure, retrieval and memory capabilities, and evaluation systems that make agent behavior observable, safe, and grounded in evidence.
Senior Principal AI Engineer building and architecting production-grade AI systems, including LLM orchestration, retrieval, multi-agent workflows, and structured reasoning. This hands-on builder-architect will set technical direction while mentoring senior engineers and helping teams ship reliable systems at scale.