Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
Core
Build industry-specific AI agents and reasoning layers that replace human workflows in legacy systems for overlooked physical economy sectors.
Role type
Founding Forward Deployed AI Engineer (IC)
Builds
Production-grade AI/LLM harnesses, domain-specific agents, and evaluation infrastructure for customer workflows.
Domain
AI/LLM engineering applied to legacy system modernization in physical economy industries.
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Production AI/LLM harness deployment, agent development, model fine-tuning/distillation, RAG implementation, workflow instrumentation, customer site immersion, technical playbook creation, frontier model stack expertise (Claude/GPT/Gemini/open models), observability and guardrails.
Preferred skills
Experience leading technical teams, building in ambiguity, unglamorous industry experience.
Responsibilities
Ship domain-specific agents into live customer environments, build evaluation infrastructure for workflow replacement, fine-tune or route models based on economics, sit with customers to instrument and rebuild workflows, write the AI engineering playbook for portfolio companies.
Seniority
Founding, hands-on IC
