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Sunset

Sunset

Guides venture-backed startups through dissolution

AI Product Engineer

Full-Time
No salary listed
Mid
New York, NY, USA
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About the job

Requirements
  • Personally owned a production software product, including an LLM-backed capability beyond a prototype.
  • Build across customer experience, application code, backend systems, artificial intelligence behavior, and production operations.
  • Understand retrieval, context selection, structured outputs, tool use, orchestration, evaluation, and observability, and recognize when deterministic software is preferable.
  • Translate ambiguous user needs into explicit evidence, state, authority, and failure boundaries.
  • Design for unsupported claims, uncertainty, permissions, privacy, human escalation, rollback, and recovery.
  • Use representative evidence to make ship, revise, or stop decisions rather than optimizing demos or one aggregate score.
  • Work directly with Product, Support, Security, and engineering partners.
  • Use modern artificial intelligence development tools fluently and verify their output with rigor applied to product behavior.
Responsibilities
  • Own AI-assisted dissolution support from the customer problem through production behavior, measurement, and iteration.
  • Design retrieval, context, structured outputs, tool contracts, orchestration, and deterministic boundaries for grounded, inspectable behavior.
  • Build answer, status, no-action, and human-handoff experiences for situations where evidence or authority is incomplete.
  • Create representative, versioned evaluations for routing, grounding, usefulness, safety, stability, and real customer outcomes.
  • Ship with explicit permissions, tenant boundaries, privacy controls, auditability, canaries, rollback, and recovery.
  • Instrument runtime and tool reliability, latency, cost, repeat contact, support effort, and serious failure modes.
  • Turn production failures into durable product, evaluation, and system improvements.
  • Determine whether complex workflows should be automated, AI-assisted, structured for a human, or remain human-owned, then build the approved product approach.
  • Simplify, replace, or remove agentic components when deterministic software or a clearer product experience is more effective.
  • Work closely with Product, Support, Security, domain experts, and full-stack engineers who own the surrounding dissolution product.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience building customer-support, operations, or multi-step workflow agents.
  • Experience with LangGraph, LangChain, or comparable orchestration approaches.
  • Experience with typed tool protocols, retrieval systems, golden datasets, offline evaluation, shadow deployments, or model-based judges.
  • Experience with privacy-sensitive, multi-tenant, audited, legal, financial, or other high-trust products.
  • Strong Python plus TypeScript, React, Node.js, or comparable full-stack experience.

About the company

Sunset provides business dissolution consulting aimed at venture-backed tech startups that are winding down. It offers an end-to-end service package including due diligence, legal and accounting support, and assistance with asset sales. The model is fee-for-service, charging clients for the specific services they need. Sunset works by coordinating a team of specialists to manage the dissolution process, helping founders and investors save time and money while handling compliance, asset liquidation, and other closing activities. Distinguishing factors include its specialization in startup shutdowns for venture-backed companies and the integration of legal, financial, and transactional services under one roof to streamline the process. The company’s goal is to help clients wind down operations efficiently, reducing time, effort, and costs associated with dissolution.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$1.5M

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2023

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • TechCrunch reported Sunset raised $1.45 million in February 2024, validating investor demand.
  • Sunset claims hundreds of wind-downs by 2026, signaling repeatable operational execution.
  • Acquire.com referrals create a steady funnel from acquisitions and acqui-hires into shutdowns.

What critics are saying

  • SimpleClosure raised $15 million in May 2025, outspending Sunset on automation.
  • Law firms and accounting firms already own dissolution workflows and client relationships.
  • If shutdown volume stalls, Sunset's referral-led model and narrow niche cap growth.

What makes Sunset unique

  • Sunset specializes in VC-backed startup wind-downs, not generic law-firm closings.
  • Its one-team model bundles attorneys, CPAs, and client success under one fee.
  • Acquire.com partnership targets post-sale stay-behind entities, a narrow and valuable niche.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Gym Membership

Company News

X Corp.
Mar 5th, 2024
Brendan Mahony on Twitter / X

"Sunset announced it has raised $1.45 million in seed funding to make the process of closing a company more affordable, quicker and less complicated."Thanks so much @bayareawriter for the incredible writeup on Sunset's recent fundraise and the ecosystem as a whole.…— Brendan Mahony (@bmaho2211) February 28, 2024

TechCrunch
Feb 27th, 2024
Why VCs are investing in startups that help other startups shut down

Earlier this month, equity management startup Carta revealed that it was getting into the game as well with a new offering called Carta Conclusions.