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Staff/Senior Software Engineer, Agent Engineering (Helios)

Unusual · New York, New York · On-site

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About Unusual

Unusual is a growth consultancy that helps companies win over a new audience: AI agents. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

Own Proxi’s agent runtime and strengthen foundations for building new agent-driven products. Build the systems that allow agents to own long-running work from assignment through completion. Agent activity should remain visible, steerable, and connected to the relevant project, people, evidence, deadlines, and deliverables in Action Rail.

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New York City | Full-time | On-site in SoHo, five days per week

ABOUT HELIOS

Helios is building a new kind of company to solve America’s hardest problems, starting with the government interaction layer.

Government shapes every consequential market, but the infrastructure connecting public institutions and private organizations remains fragmented, manual, and difficult to navigate. Helios is rebuilding that layer.

Our core platform, Proxi, gives organizations the intelligence they need to understand what government is doing, why it matters, and what to do next. From that foundation, we design and deploy secure, mission-specific systems for government agencies, enterprises, and institutions operating in complex and highly regulated environments.

We bring together frontier AI, deep public-sector expertise, and forward-deployed execution. Our team includes leaders and builders from the White House, U.S. Department of State, Datadog, and Microsoft. We are backed by leading institutional investors and trusted by organizations working on high-stakes problems across government and industry.

Advance the agent runtime that powers Proxi’s research, analysis, and action capabilities. Our...

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