Founding Engineer - Full Stack

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Founding Engineer - Full Stack#### Location San Francisco### About this role

What is Unusual Unusual helps brands understand how LLMs talk about them, and gives them tools to change their minds.

This is an immensely important and interesting technical challenge – our engineering team focuses on reverse engineering the sources, implicit biases, and reasoning patterns that guide model behavior, and builds products that use this understanding to help people regain control over how they are represented.

From a product perspective, we have a unique opportunity to define the new field of ”Brand Engineering": we can accurately measure LLM’s opinions of a brand, which enables us to quantify a brand’s performance relative to their peers along any dimension. By putting numbers to these previous intangibles, we can add an element of science to the art of brand; perhaps the final piece of a decades-long effort to bring math to marketing.

If you want to define a product category, push the boundary on a new field of research – applied interpretability, and make a positive impact by helping people control their own narrative rather than large AI companies, we’d love to talk.

About the role

As a Founding Engineer, you’ll own problems end-to-end – from high level customer insight all the way to research and infrastructure. You’ll keep a close feedback loop with customers and the executive team, and ship  addition, you’ll help shape a new engineering team at the dawn of a new kind of software development. Vibecoding is the next paradigm, and as AI tooling improves, we’ll need to work together to regularly reinvent the best patterns and practices for working alongside agents on a team.

Who you areYou are a high-agency builder who thrives on difficult technical problems and wants to own outcomes end-to-end, from customer insight to shipped feature.

You are full-stack, comfortable working from customer-facing UI all the way down to infrastructure.  You are eager to adopt and adapt to new engineering tooling, including AI-powered coding tools.  You are an individual contributor by choice and want to stay close to the code.  You have a strong sense for product and design that lets you build things customers love.  You have prior startup experience or self-driven personal projects that demonstrate initiative.  

You are curious about how LLMs work and excited to build systems that probe and influence them.  Bonus:
You have scientific research experience.  Bonus:
You're comfortable talking to customers directly.

Technical requirements1+ years of experience on engineering teams (3+ preferred)  Comfortable with React, Python, Terraform, and AWS  Experience building agentic systems
- Our values  Character comes first. We only work with people we deeply trust and respect. We think this makes work more fun, freeing, and effective.  We try to remain down to earth and in touch with customers' real pains. Everyone at Unusual works in the customer service department.  We do whatever it takes. When we know what we must do, we don't take shortcuts or shy away from huge ugly challenges.##

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Unusual offers a competitive compensation package for the Founding Engineer - Full Stack role. The salary range is USD 150k - 250k per year, plus 0.50% - 2.00% equity. Apply through Clera to learn more about the full compensation details.

As a Founding Engineer - Full Stack at Unusual, you will: own problems end-to-end – from high level customer insight all the way to research and infrastructure.; keep a close feedback loop with customers and the executive team, and ship fast.; help shape a new engineering team at the dawn of a new kind of software development.; and more.

Unusual is a leading AI/ML company. Their culture emphasizes Our values

Character comes first. We only work with people we deeply trust and respect. We think this makes work more fun, freeing, and effective.

We try to remain down to earth and in touch with customers' real pains. Everyone at Unusual works in the customer service department.

We do whatever it takes. When we know what we must do, we don't take shortcuts or shy away from huge ugly challenges.. The Founding Engineer - Full Stack role offers competitive compensation.

The Founding Engineer - Full Stack position at Unusual is based in San Francisco, United States and is on-site. Contact the company through Clera for specific work arrangement details.

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