--- title: 'Founding Forward Deployed Engineer at Atomic' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/founding-forward-deployed-engineer-atomic-united-states-e4vbyt2zqwws' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-16' --- # Founding Forward Deployed Engineer at Atomic - **Company:** Atomic - **Location:** United States - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-09-16 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/atomic/b2bfa182-5a40-4545-9e03-980ededc979e ## Job description We're a stealth holding company acquiring and operating software businesses in overlooked, mission-critical industries - the systems that run the physical economy but have been ignored by Silicon Valley. We're rebuilding them as AI-native from the inside out. We're small, well-capitalized, and moving fast. This is not a research lab. This is a build shop with real customers, real revenue, and real P&Ls. ## The Role You will be the AI engineer. You'll own: - Building the industry-specific GPT: the reasoning layer that encodes the domain expertise of each vertical we operate in. - Embedding AI-native functionality directly into our AI-native system of record: not bolt-on chatbots. Core workflow replacement. Agents that do the job. - Moving legacy systems of record datasets into new ai-native ones: Core workflow replacement. Agents that do the job. - Making it repeatable: Every new company we bring into the portfolio should benefit from the playbook, model stack, eval harness, and infra you build. - Managing AI talent across our operating companies: you'll be a player-coach for the AI engineers embedded at each sub. Split: 90% building. 10% managing. If that ratio scares you, this isn't your role. If it excites you, keep reading. ## What You'll 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 ## Who You Are… - 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. ----- Atomic is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetics or any other basis forbidden under federal, state, or local law. Please review our [CCPA policies](https://www.atomic.vc/job-applicant-privacy) here. ## About Atomic ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Atomic is a venture studio that builds high-growth companies by pairing entrepreneurs with a built-in founding team of experts, capital, and resources. - **Entity Type**: Private (venture studio and fund; raised $320M for fourth fund) - **Headquarters**: Miami, Florida, United States (with a San Francisco office and distributed teams across the U.S. and Canada) - **Founded**: 2012 - **Founders**: Jack Abraham (Managing Partner & CEO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Venture studio / startup builder (operates across fintech, web3, proptech, education, enterprise, healthcare, and more) - **Target customers**: Entrepreneurs and co-founders looking to launch scalable companies; B2B and B2C end-markets vary by portfolio company - **Mission or purpose statement**: “Bring ideas, capital, resources, and talent together to build the best ideas into great companies” (LinkedIn) ## Products & Services - **Co-Found with Atomic**: The core model – a founder joins Atomic as a co-founder and gets immediate access to an in-house team covering engineering, design, marketing, legal, finance, HR, and recruiting, plus a playbook and capital to de‑risk company building. - **Atomic Fund**: A $320 million fund (fourth fund) used exclusively to start and scale companies built inside Atomic. - **Portfolio Companies**: Notable companies built at Atomic include **Hims & Hers** (NYSE: HIMS), **Homebound**, **OpenStore**, **Replicant**, **Found**, and **Bungalow** (each operates as an independent business). ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed for Atomic itself (as a private studio) - **Key Metric**: Total raised for fourth fund – **$320 million** (exclusive report); annual studio revenue estimated at **$6.0M** (LinkedIn) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Led by Managing Partner Jack Abraham; General Partner includes ex-Postmates CFO; additional undisclosed LPs in the fund. - **Growth Signals**: 72 employees (LinkedIn), monthly headcount growth of +1.2%, active in 9 countries (U.S., Canada, South Africa, China, Philippines, Qatar, Ukraine, Netherlands, Nigeria); 3 current job openings with 50% monthly increase in postings. ## Competitive Advantages - **Founding team as a service**: Atomic provides a complete startup infrastructure (legal, finance, HR, design, marketing, recruiting) from day one – a “built-in co-founder” approach that removes typical early-stage friction. - **Proven track record**: Portfolio includes publicly traded companies (Hims & Hers) and multiple billion-dollar entities, de‑risking the model for new entrepreneurs. - **Capital + talent density**: The $320M fund, combined with an experienced team of serial entrepreneurs and specialists, allows rapid iteration and scaling across multiple verticals simultaneously. ## Strategic Focus - Continue scaling the studio-fund model by deploying the fourth fund into new company creations. - Expand into additional high‑opportunity markets (healthcare, AI, enterprise) while deepening expertise in existing verticals. - Grow the internal team across key functions (engineering, growth, strategic finance, talent acquisition) to support more parallel company builds. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Described as “a place for anyone with an entrepreneurial spirit” – employees work alongside serial founders and get exposure to launching multiple startups. Built In rates culture 4.1/5 and career growth 4.4/5. - **Work model**: Hybrid (on‑site at Miami HQ or San Francisco office for most roles; some remote positions available). - **Perks & team**: Collaborative, low‑ego environment; access to a network of top‑tier operators; roles offer high ownership and visibility into company‑building processes. ## Sources 1. [atomic.vc](https://www.atomic.vc/) – Homepage, join page, team page 2. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/atomic-vc) – Company overview, perks, culture 3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/atomic-vc) – Company details, financials, workforce, reviews ## Other roles at Atomic - [Office Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/office-manager-atomic-miami-tsv5vhsn0nvq) — Miami, FL - [Head of Brand & Creative](https://feeny.ai/job/head-of-brand-creative-atomic-united-states-hxgbgpb2tjyd) — United States - [CX Specialist (Temp)](https://feeny.ai/job/cx-specialist-temp-atomic-united-states-fa5xxp882ebz) — United States - [Senior Device Software Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-device-software-engineer-atomic-san-francisco-d7cmjgn22afc) — San Francisco, CA - [Senior Perception Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-perception-engineer-atomic-san-francisco-n56ecasqp62q) — San Francisco, CA - [Sales Concierge](https://feeny.ai/job/sales-concierge-atomic-united-states-wmdaymc73dmh) — United States - [Deal Origination Associate](https://feeny.ai/job/deal-origination-associate-atomic-united-states-6mbsk9vnm53k) — United States - [Founding Clinical AI Lead](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-clinical-ai-lead-atomic-miami-tjwbnqsmqp4k) — Miami, FL - [Co-found with Atomic](https://feeny.ai/job/co-found-with-atomic-atomic-miami-zr9h9vqrk8mq) — Miami, FL - [Founding Forward Deployed Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-forward-deployed-engineer-lunos-new-york-bqvsch45p151) — New York, NY