atomic - Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
Requirements
• You are a builder first. You've shipped things people actually use. Alone or as the clear technical lead. • You are a forward-deployed engineer. You'll fly to a customer site, sit in their office, and understand the business before you write a line of code. • You've been called a 10x engineer and it wasn't in a self-review. • You have demonstrated experience building and deploying production-grade AI/LLM harnesses that connect models to customer data, tools, APIs, and business workflows, with appropriate evaluation, observability, guardrails, and failure handling. • You have strong opinions about when to fine-tune vs. prompt vs. RAG vs. agent vs harness and you can defend them with numbers. • You've built with the current frontier stack (Claude, GPT, Gemini, open models) in production, not just in a Jupyter notebook. • You are allergic to slide decks and comfortable with ambiguity, small teams, and unglamorous industries. • What This Role Is Not… • A research role. We ship. • A management role. You build. • A "Head of AI" title for LinkedIn. You will be in the codebase daily. • A place for people who need process, roadmaps handed to them, or a 20-person team to feel productive. • We are focused on building a diverse and inclusive workforce. If you’re excited about this role, but do not meet 100% of the qualifications listed above, we encourage you to apply.
Responsibilities
• Ship a working domain-specific agent into a live customer environment in your first 30 days • Build the eval infrastructure that lets us measure whether these agents are actually replacing human workflows (not vibes) • Fine-tune, distill, or route across frontier + open models depending on the economics of each vertical • Sit with customers. Watch them work. Instrument their workflows. Rebuild them. • Write the AI engineering playbook that every future portfolio company inherits on day one
Benefits
• $200K – $250K • Offers Equity • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • or drag and drop here • Please include: • Link to the repo or live product • One sentence: what it does • One sentence: what you personally built vs. what others contributed • If it's proprietary/not public: one short Loom video walking through the code and the product • We will not consider applications without the GitHub link and the "built on my own" list. Team projects at large companies where you were "one of the engineers on" do not count. We are hiring for demonstrated solo/lead building ability. • We will not consider applications without the GitHub link and the "built on my own" list. • What's the hardest technical problem you've solved with AI in the last 12 months? How would you know if your solution was wrong? • Why do you want to build AI for boring, real-world industries instead of another consumer app or foundation model lab?
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