Venture Capital Careers

Primary is a seed-stage venture capital firm dedicated to delivering exceptional support to the founders of transformational businesses.

By pairing meaningful investment resources with the largest portfolio impact team of any seed investor, our portfolio companies have reached an industry-best seed-to-A graduation rate.

The firm’s Incubation arm,Primary Labs, launched in 2019 to support the ideation, research and launch of new startups.

Primary’s first three incubated companies will return its first fund many times over, and Primary is now primed for substantial growth in its Incubation efforts.

Primary Labs is looking for an Operator-in-Residence (OIR) to explore the frontier of local AI and agent frameworks and turn technical breakthroughs into company opportunities.

This role is open to candidates based in New York or San Francisco.

You'll report to Partner Brian Schechter, who has backed and sits on the board of companies like Etched and Tabs, and is actively incubating at the intersection of agents, edge, and AI.

We've hit an inflection point: agents are easily accessible and more people want their own agents – but the experience remains elusive.

We're going to break down those barriers with a company designed to make agents more accessible, exploring topics that range from compute to privacy, commerce to social.

You will operate at the edge of emerging agent infrastructure—testing new frameworks as they launch, stress-testing capabilities, and building production-grade agents for real use cases.

The systems you build will not live as experiments—they will serve as the technical foundation for new ventures incubated within Primary Labs.

This is not a traditional engineering role.

As an OIR, you will work directly with the AI Infrastructure Investment Pod to identify, validate, and shape new company ideas.

You’ll move from exploration to conviction quickly, helping determine which technical breakthroughs can underpin venture-scale businesses.

OIRs at Primary Labs are builders first, but ultimately company creators.

High-performing OIRs have the opportunity to step into a founding role within a company they help incubate.