Forward Deployed Engineer

About the Company

Most companies still plan their supply chains (quantities, mix, allocations, timing, etc.) in spreadsheets or legacy software. Atomic is rebuilding the brain behind the American supply chain. By tackling operations optimization from first principles with an AI-native stack, we're able to deliver unprecedented results at a breakneck speed for our customers. We're looking for first-principles thinkers who want to write code that drives the physical world, working directly with the customers who run it. Positions are based in NYC, Boston, Austin, or Reno, with remote options also available.

Responsibilities

• Own customer deployments end to end.
• Do the same technical work as core engineers, but client‑facing and embedded across the whole problem.
• Build automated, normalized pipelines on top of a customer's messy real‑world supply chain data.
• Shape the optimization logic and models to how the business actually runs (data science and machine learning experience is a plus).
• Build the interfaces and AI features for customers to interact with and analyze plans.
• Wire Atomic into the customer's systems and partner platforms.

Requirements

• Relevant backgrounds: planning, supply chain, data engineering, management consulting, finance, industrial engineering.
• Experience: 3+ years for FDE, 6+ years for Sr. FDE.
• Significant experience coding with AI while applying strict guardrails.
• Comfort working directly with customers to turn business problems into software.
• Willingness to do applied, hands‑on work at startup speed, spanning code, data, supply chain, finance, and operations (supply chain / physical goods experience is a plus).