Venture Capital Partner

About

Our mission is to raise AGI with the richness of human intelligence - curious, witty, imaginative, and full of unexpected brilliance.

Surge was founded by engineers and researchers who dreamed of building the next generation AI. We're building a platform that powers the most powerful models in the world in partnership with companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google.

At Surge, we believe the path to AGI isn't just about scaling compute - it's about embracing the unlimited ceiling of human intelligence and creativity in the data that shapes these systems. Our platform combines elite human expertise with cutting-edge tools for scalable oversight, from building rich RL environments to conducting rigorous evaluations that go beyond benchmarks. We've run a profitable business from day one without raising venture funding.

The Role

As a VC Partner, you’ll bring the judgment, pattern recognition, and analytical discipline that define world-class investing. You’ll evaluate and refine strategic reasoning tasks drawn from venture and company-building contexts - assessing market fit, founder quality, competitive advantage, and portfolio construction with the same rigor you apply in live investment settings.

This role calls for synthesis across ambiguity - the ability to weigh partial signals, think in scenarios, and distill conviction from incomplete information. Your perspective will help shape how models learn to reason about innovation, capital allocation, and long-term value creation.

What we’re Looking for

• Venture Leadership Experience – Current or former Associate, Partner, General Partner, or Managing Director at a VC firm.
• Investment Judgment – Deep experience evaluating early- and growth-stage opportunities, with a strong sense of founder quality and market inflection
• Strategic and Analytical Clarity – Ability to dissect business models, identify defensibility, and assess upside and execution risk
• ‍ Communication and Narrative Skill – Facility in translating complex qualitative assessments into crisp, actionable reasoning

Work You Might Do

• Reviewing or rewriting model-generated investment analyses for clarity, judgment, and rigor
• Designing venture-style evaluation prompts that mirror live investment decision processes
• Analyzing reasoning quality in simulated pitch or diligence scenarios for depth and realism
• Partnering with Surge researchers to build datasets that capture authentic investor reasoning and risk assessment patterns

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How to Apply

Please email talent@surgehq.ai with your background and interest in collaborating with Surge. Please include the name of the role you’re applying for in the subject line or email body. We welcome personal projects and writings!

Where you can work

This role is 100% remote: you can work from anywhere in the world.