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Investment Associate, Compute Investment Team

San Francisco, CA

Investment Team

Full-time

Hybrid

About the Role

At Primary Venture Partners in the Financial Services space, Partnering with founders to build transformative companies at moments of maximum risk..

We’re hiring an investment associate to help build out our compute practice in San Francisco. Our compute practice sits at the center of the firm’s next chapter - we led the seed round in Etched, now valued at $21B, and have a broader compute portfolio with investments across memory, advanced packaging, quantum, and biological compute. You will be working directly with Brian Schechter and Gaby Lorenzi. You’ll source, diligence, and help originate investments across the full compute stack - including software and hardware opportunities in thermals, advanced packaging, cooling, power, data center management and token efficiency. We’re looking for a technical person, who studied computer science, electrical engineering, or a comparable degree, who has spent time inside startups in the past, and is looking to be a part of building a growing investment practice in one of the most consequential markets of our time – compute. Prior investing experience is not required. Deep technical understanding of compute is also not required. We're hiring for learning velocity, genuine curiosity about compute, and a deep network in San Francisco to support your growth, not a finished resume. This is a career-defining bet for the right person: help plant Primary's flag in San Francisco and grow into one of the firm's next great investors.

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Requirements

Must be available to work full-time in SF with periodic travel to NYC
2-4 years of experience with at least 1-2 years of experience in a production engineering role at a leading tech company, AI lab, or high-growth startup
Computer Science degree or equivalent experience
Deeply plugged into the San Francisco technical and AI scene
Genuine, self-directed curiosity about compute
Comfortable operating with real ambiguity and building process where none exists yet
Down-to-earth, collaborative, and able to build trust quickly

Benefits

$155K – $175K salary
Carry in the fund

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Primary is the premier early stage venture firm working alongside founders to build unicorns like Alloy, Chief, Electric, K Health, Slice, Vestwell, and many more. The firm takes a low-volume, high-conviction approach—and devotes unreasonable resources toward making sure founders can succeed. With an Impact team that outnumbers investors 2:1, operational experts spend 100% of their time making hires, signing customers, and enabling future fundraising to supercharge growth. This partnership with top-tier founders makes companies in Primary’s portfolio 2x more likely to raise a Series A and 19x more likely to reach a billion-dollar-plus valuation—a third of Fund I companies are unicorns, less than a decade out. We’re always excited to meet 99th-percentile founders building in B2B SaaS, built world, fintech, healthcare, infrastructure, and supply chain. And while we have a home court advantage in NYC, we invest globally, at pre-seed through A.

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Primary Venture Partners is an established organization in its industry. The company focuses on maintaining a supportive workplace culture for all employees.

Key benefit categories include: Professional Development, Work Environment, Culture & Values, Impact. For this role specifically, benefits include: $155K – $175K salary, Carry in the fund. You can view more details on their CertCheck profile.

The day-to-day environment is guided by core values such as Founder Partnership Over Hierarchy and Action-Oriented and Resourceful and Intellectual Curiosity and Rigor.

The company has committed to inclusive practices including: Founder-First Decision Making and Unreasonable Operational Support.

Primary Venture Partners has a supportive and collaborative culture, recognized as a loved place to work by its team members.

Primary Venture Partners currently has 4 open positions. They are hiring across departments like Impact Team, Investment Team, Primary Labs. You can view all current openings at certcheck.mostlovedworkplace.com/companies/primary-venture-partners/jobs.

The interview process typically involves an initial recruiter screen followed by team interviews. Please contact Primary Venture Partners's recruiting team for specific details on this role's process.