Atomic

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

United States

Staff / Principal

HYBRID

Atomic is a stealth holding company acquiring and operating software businesses in mission-critical, physical-economy industries and rebuilding them as AI-native from the inside out. As the Founding Forward Deployed Engineer, you will be the primary AI engineer responsible for building domain-specific agents, embedding AI-native functionality into systems of record, migrating legacy datasets, and creating a repeatable AI engineering playbook for the entire portfolio. This is a hands-on builder role — 90% building, 10% managing AI talent across operating companies. You will work directly wit...

Large language model (LLM) engineering

AI agent development

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

Model fine-tuning and distillation

Prompt engineering

Eval harness design

Python

Production ML systems

Workflow automation

Customer-facing / forward-deployed engineering

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