AI Native Builder/Architect

The role

You will build and ship 0 to 1 software systems, agents, and LLM platforms. You will work in small units to design, build, and maintain the infrastructure that AI runs on.

What you will do

• Own 0 to 1 initiatives from problem to production
• Build agents with outcome owners
• Design for failure and human takeover
• Make engineering calls on deterministic code versus models
• Make agent behavior observable through traces and evals
• Build and extend the context layer, agent platform, and registry
• Build AI-native by running coding agents on your own work
• Share learnings through reference architectures and demos

Required qualifications

• Built software systems hands-on and shipped 0 to 1 products or platforms into production
• Shipped agents or LLM systems that real people use
• Use evals to find and fix real problems
• Design for failure first
• Build with coding agents every day
• Critical optimist
• Reason from first principles
• Strong systems judgment for production reliability, latency, cost and security

Nice to have

• Experience with MCP, A2A, agent frameworks and runtimes, LLM gateways or agent observability
• Built an agent harness or orchestration layer
• Experience with knowledge graphs, vector search, retrieval or semantic layers
• Built an eval suite from scratch, or run shadow evaluations, LLM grading or staged rollouts
• Shipped agents that write to a system of record, with permissions, approvals and an audit trail
• Led AI adoption inside an engineering or business team
• Founding-engineer, technical-founder or early-stage startup experience
• A public trail of work, repos, demos, write-ups or talks

Benefits

• Strong base salary
• Performance-based variable pay
• Impact-driven equity (for most roles)
• Day-1 health, dental, vision, and mental health
• Flexible health stipends
• Flexible time off and modern leave
• Accelerated growth and learning

About the company

Atlan is building the context layer for enterprise AI. They provide the infrastructure that allows AI to understand business context around data.