We are looking for a Founding Engineer with 1-5 years of experience to join a tiny, high-performing team building the future of AI interpretability for brands. You'll help companies understand and influence how AI models perceive them — essentially applied psychology on LLMs — at a YC-backed startup scaling rapidly in revenue with Fortune 100 customers.
What will you be doing?
• Building and extending a universal context management platform that powers agentic workflows across customer data, communications, and deliverables
• Applying black-box AI interpretability techniques to reverse-engineer how LLMs form opinions about brands and their competitors
• Owning features end-to-end — from understanding customer needs through research, infrastructure, and shipped product
• Helping define new engineering team patterns and practices around agentic coding tools (Claude Code, etc.)
• Building internal automation and custom software for clients using AI agents with full company context
Unusual drives more leads from AI models by helping you discover and change AI's opinions of your brand. On average, Unusual customers are growing their leads
from AI 40% per month.
Salary
$170,000 - $250,000
Equity
0.3% - 1.5%
Location
San Francisco, United States
Experience
1+ years
Total raised
$3.6M
Last stage
Seed
Investors
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.