About Primary

Primary is a seed-stage venture capital firm dedicated to delivering exceptional support to the founders of transformational businesses. With over $1B under management and the largest portfolio impact team of any seed investor, Primary has helped its companies achieve an industry-best seed-to-A graduation rate.

Primary is betting on AI to redefine what’s possible at a venture fund - from research, execution, portfolio support, sourcing and more. We are currently building PrimaryOS, a system of agents and tools to accelerate incubation and investing. We are scaling the team to help create Primary’s internal AI operating system, as a source of alpha in everything we do.

About the Role

We’re looking for a founding engineer to architect and build PrimaryOS. This is the first engineering hire on the PrimaryOS team — a foundational role for someone who wants to shape the technical core of how a modern venture firm operates. You’ll work closely with Primary’s investment partners, Labs team, and Impact platform to automate and augment workflows across research, diligence, incubation, portfolio support, and recruiting.

You will work with a small, centralized team that’s solely focused on inventing and scaling this product. We are also designing this role for growth - we see this person developing into a CTO level leader as PrimaryOS evolves from prototype to a scaled product.

What You’ll Do

• You’ll own the architecture, bring agents to production, manage data pipelines, and improve our system with feedback

• Develop and deploy multi-agent systems using Python, LangChain, FastAPI, and, minimal front end to automate core venture workflows

• Architect and scale backend systems that manage large language model pipelines, data ingestion, and API orchestration

• Set the technical roadmap for PrimaryOS, establishing best practices in data engineering, orchestration, deployment, and long-term scalability.

• Ship fast — this role is hands-on, independent, and high-ownership. You’ll be responsible for taking systems from prototype to production with minimal overhead.

• Collaborate directly with leadership (Partners, Labs, and Impact team) to identify high-leverage internal processes that can be redefined through AI automation.

• Results focused - this role will be focused on delivering tangible and attributable outcomes for stakeholders.

About You

• Experience: 3–5 years of experience in backend or full-stack engineering. You’ve deployed production-grade agents or AI-driven backend systems at scale.

• Technical Stack: Strong in Python, with experience in LangChain, FastAPI, cloud infrastructure, and data pipelines.

• Independent: You can define technical architecture, prioritize what matters, and own feedback loops across business and engineering. You thrive on autonomy, ship quickly, and have a bias for iteration over bureaucracy.

• System Thinker: You understand how different parts of an organization connect and how to design intelligent systems that scale those interactions.

• Location: Must be based in New York City and able to work from the Primary office a minimum of three days a week.
  

Note from Tanmaye, who is leading PrimaryOS:

I’ve been building this for the last six months. What I’m really looking for is deep collaboration with this person, to not only build PrimaryOS, but help discover how venture capital will evolve and how businesses will be built in the coming decade. If these problems are interesting to you, I encourage you to apply.

Compensation Range: $160K - $200K