Unusual Ventures is hiring a
Senior SWE

Summary

Portrait Analytics is a startup building an AI-powered financial research tool. They are looking for a Backend Engineer to scale their infrastructure and contribute to solving specific workflows. The team includes experienced professionals from various backgrounds, and the company is well-funded by great investors.

Requirements

• You are a motivated individual with a keen interest in advancing the capabilities of LLMs by tackling challenging, real-world problems
• You thrive in fast-paced environments and enjoy wearing multiple hats, collaborating with small teams, and taking ownership of various parts of a tech stack
• You have a strong risk tolerance and are excited by the challenges that startups bring
• You are comfortable working remotely and collaborating closely with a small team
• You like working on complex systems and have an awareness of your works downstream effects all the way to the end user
• You’re hesitant and intentional about adding complexity to a system
• Experience working on Search and Relevance systems

Responsibilities

• Working with the team to design the schema, principles and best practices to follow when adding data sources to our application
• Writing software and managing infrastructure that utilizes machine learning to integrate diverse document types and sources within our search system
• Working on features that utilize said data sources to solve specific workflows

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with SQL data stores and vector search systems
• Experience working with ML models for creating embedding and or classification tasks
• A general understanding of how public companies report e.g. Earnings calls, SEC documents and how public market analysts use these reports
• Experience working with AWS and CDK

Benefits

Compensation philosophy: As compared to other well-funded, seed-stage startups, we aim to pay at market for cash compensation and well above market for equity compensation