Founding Engineer - Full Stack
full-time•on-site•San Francisco•$150k - $250k+ 0.50% - 2.00%
Summary
Location
San Francisco
Salary
$150k - $250k
Equity
0.50% - 2.00%
Type
full-time
Workplace
On-site
Experience
1-7 years
Visa
US citizen/visa only
Company links
About this role
The Role
Help brands understand how LLMs
talk about them — and change their minds.
talk about them — and change their minds.
Unusual reverse-engineers the sources, implicit biases, and reasoning patterns that guide LLM outputs. An immensely important technical challenge at the intersection of AI and brand intelligence.
You Might Be a Fit If…
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Fascinated by how LLMs form opinions — reverse engineering AI reasoning
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Full-stack builder who can own features end-to-end
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Founding-level impact at the intersection of AI and brand intelligence
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On-site. $150K–$250K.
Interview process
- 1Interview
- 2Initial Interview
What you'll do
- 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.
- Regularly reinvent the best patterns and practices for working alongside agents on a team.
About Unusual
About us:
Our cofounder and CEO Will Jack is a second-time founder who previously started Khosla-and-Greylock-backed Remedy Health. Will has been working in NLP research since 2014 (using attention mechanisms before the Transformer) and is ex-SpaceX, MIT. He was the first person to commercialize AI code generation in 2019 while working on HBO’s Silicon Valley. He gained international recognition as a teenager for building a homemade nuclear fusion reactor. Github: https://github.com/wjack
Our cofounder Keller Maloney has been building in AI applications since 2019, and he was Cum Laude in Econometrics from Princeton University and was a D1 All-American water polo Captain. Github: https://github.com/kellermaloney
Our Head of GTM, Sarah Xu, is a repeat GTM builder with deep empathy for Heads of Growth and agencies. She drove 10X growth at Circle Medical (YC W17), built Ambience Healthcare’s GTM from pre-revenue (led to $350M raised by Oak HC/FT, Kleiner Perkins, OAI, a16z), and designed growth engines at Google for companies and agencies that scaled revenue 5–10X.
Our culture
- 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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Frequently Asked Questions
What does Unusual pay for a Founding Engineer - Full Stack?
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.
What does a Founding Engineer - Full Stack do at Unusual?
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.
Is the Founding Engineer - Full Stack position at Unusual remote?
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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