Atomic is a venture studio that co-founds companies by pairing founders with the best ideas, teams, and resources, and funding those with the most potential.
The company is a stealth-mode, AI-native startup focused on transforming how ecommerce brands connect with customers, starting with revenue recovery.
The first product is a white-glove recovery tool that converts customer drop-off into conversions, utilizing precision, personalization, and rich zero-party data.
The Applied AI Engineer will join the founding team to help architect and scale the platform from 0-1, working at the heart of the AI stack.
The role involves rapid prototyping, evaluating, and deploying systems that enhance the customer experience.
The engineer will partner with founders to build, test, and ship LLM-driven agent workflows, reporting to the CTO.
Requirements:
The candidate must have experience with the applied AI stack, including prompting, embeddings, vector DBs, and fine-tuning.
Proven experience in building and shipping LLM-powered features that are reliable and performant in production environments is required.
The candidate should be analytical, comfortable exploring trace data, and capable of turning observations into hypotheses and experiments.
Strong decision-making skills regarding data context and grounding for LLMs are essential.
The candidate must understand the integration of AI within broader product systems and enjoy cross-disciplinary collaboration.
Experience in developing evaluation methodologies in environments with hard-to-quantify outcomes is necessary.
The candidate should thrive in fast-paced, early-stage startup environments and be comfortable with ambiguity.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills are required to work with engineers, product managers, and domain experts.
A desire to work closely with the CTO on infrastructure decisions and scaling agentic systems is important.
Benefits:
The position offers a competitive salary along with meaningful early-stage equity.
The company is open to different leveling depending on the candidate's experience.
Atomic is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and encourages applicants who may not meet 100% of the qualifications to apply.
