Forward Deployed Engineer (North)

About us

ATLAS makes AI useful in the real world. Our forward-deployed engineers work directly with customer teams to solve complex problems, redesign workflows, and build systems from first idea to daily use. We build on Socrates CORE, connecting data, models, and applications to help businesses replace disconnected tools and reduce manual work. We measure success by what changes for the business: lower costs, greater capacity, and better ways to get work done.

The role

We're hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to lead complex, end-to-end deployments inside customer environments: you own discovery, technical scoping, build, and production rollout, partnering directly with the customer's engineering and domain teams.

This is not a pipeline into a job for the customer. It's a role built around delivering real production outcomes inside someone else's walls, on purpose, over and over.

What you'll do

• Own discovery, technical scoping, system design, build, and production rollout for each deployment, partnered directly with the customer's engineering and domain teams.
• Build full-stack systems that deliver real production value, not prototypes that stall out at the demo.
• Embed closely with the customer's team, understand what they actually need, and guide adoption of what you build.
• Scope work, sequence delivery, and remove blockers before they become excuses.
• Own the tradeoffs between scope, speed, and quality yourself, and adjust the plan to protect delivery.
• Stay in the code when progress or clarity depends on it. This isn't a role you manage from a distance.
• Codify what works into tools, playbooks, or patterns we can reuse on the next deployment.
• Bring field feedback back to the team: what's working, what's at risk, and what the next assignment should account for.

What you bring

• 5+ years of engineering experience that includes customer-facing, technical deployment work, not just internal product work.
• A track record of scoping and delivering complex systems in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
• Production-grade code across frontend and backend, in Python, JavaScript, or a comparable stack.
• Genuine comfort with impermanence. You'll be the new person repeatedly, on someone else's team, and you need to build trust fast every time.
• Communication strong enough to represent the company well in a room you don't control, with engineers, product owners, and customer executives alike.
• Judgment under pressure: the ability to simplify complexity, make fast calls, and stay steady when the stakes are real.
• Self-direction. On a deployment, you may need to solution in real time.
• Willingness to travel or work on-site when a deployment calls for it.

Nice to have

• Prior consulting, professional services, or systems integration experience.
• Experience across multiple customer engagements, ideally with reference-able outcomes.
• Comfort operating under a customer's security, compliance, or access constraints rather than your own.

Why join us

Join ATLAS to build the AI systems businesses depend on. You’ll work directly with the people using what you build, understand their challenges, and take responsibility for turning complex problems into working software. The work spans applications, data, integrations, and models, with opportunities to exercise technical judgment throughout. We value people who ask good questions, test their assumptions, and follow through. Build the systems that will power the next generation of business.

Benefits & Perks

We’ve got you covered with competitive compensation, medical, dental, and vision benefits, plus flexible time off coordinated with your team. Alongside federal holidays, you’ll enjoy company-wide summer and winter breaks—dedicated time for everyone to unplug, recharge, and make the most of life outside work.