Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

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.