# Founding Forward Deployed Engineer at Atomic AI

- Company: Atomic AI
- What the company does: Backed by Greylock.
- Company website: https://atomic.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Remote - US
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $200K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-16
- Apply by: 2026-10-31
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/atomic/b2bfa182-5a40-4545-9e03-980ededc979e
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/atomic-ai-founding-forward-deployed-engineer/

## About the role

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)

## What they're looking for

- 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

Tags: Pre-Launch Companies