Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
Atomic, Remote - US
What you will do
- 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
What you need
- 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.