§ I.Practice
From research through deployment
AI
Research, applied physics, post-training and RL, evals, agents
Hardware
Novel compute architecture, silicon design and verification, hardware/software co-design
Software
Product, infrastructure, security, reliability, compilers and runtime
Deployment
Forward-deployed engineering, field application engineering, deployment strategy
§ II.Selected Work
Recent searches
Role
Focus
Geography
01
Post-Training Lead
RL and reward modeling
New York
02
Silicon Systems Architect
Novel compute architecture
New York
03
Reliability Engineer
Evaluation and regression systems
San Francisco
04
Platform Security Engineer
Secure-by-default infrastructure
US Remote
05
Forward-Deployed Engineer
AI for semiconductor engineering
London
06
Deployment Strategist
Agentic software deployment
New York
§ III.Engagement
One principal, end to end
No handoffs. The person who scopes the role runs the search and closes the hire.
Contingent
One role, or a few. Exclusive.
Retained
Committed on both sides, staged against milestones.
Embedded
Dedicated capacity across a quarter. Operating as part of the team.
Contingent
Retained
Embedded
One role, or a few. Exclusive.
Committed on both sides, staged against milestones.
Dedicated capacity across a quarter. Operating as part of the team.
Every engagement includes role definition, market mapping, interview design, compensation, and offer strategy.
§ IV.Thesis
Computing is being rebuilt across layers
Models shape hardware, hardware shapes product, and deployment shapes what gets built next. The loop keeps tightening.
Teams follow the architecture. ML for chip design connects research to silicon. Agent and platform engineering connects models to production systems. Forward-deployed engineering connects the product to the customer's environment. Each requires context from both sides.
I built Core Operative at that convergence, inside a venture-backed AI hardware company, helping the team grow from 40 to 70. Searches across AI, hardware, software, and deployment, including standing up its FDE function.
Companies move at the speed of their hardest hire.
Direct
Practice
AI · Hardware · Software · Deployment
Coverage
NY · DC · LDN · SF