When I say "atypical ranged build" I don't know what we can imagine to do. A caster who just happens to have ranged attacks would be very good, I just want to have fun when I play this character, a repetitive turn making character doesn't fit to me.
If it can helps you, we have in our party a 12 yo girl Summoner with a Calystria eidolon, a melee Barbarian brainless and an alchemist who plays around mutagene and bestial traits to go melee. We only are lvl 2