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ROLE APPLICATION ATLASDECISION VIEW

Choose the work. Inspect the proof.

Three current role targets apply one six-dimensional Operator Standard to different work. Forward-deployed engineering is the flagship advanced path; compare its field bar with the build and applied-engineering routes before choosing where to begin.

ROLE TARGETS
03
DIMENSIONS
06
DATED SOURCES
05
TRUTH STATE
AUTHORED
01

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FLAGSHIP ADVANCED PATHDISCOVER + TRANSFER

Forward-deployed engineer

Works with a customer under real constraints to diagnose a workflow, deliver a credible technical wedge, and leave behind an operable system.

TARGET
L3
HIGHEST FLOOR
4 / 4
ROUTE
22 modules
MODULE TIME
15 hr 32 min
CAPABILITY FLOORS
AI literacy & judgment
3/4
Prompting & instruction design
3/4
Workflow decomposition
4/4
Agent direction & oversight
3/4
Verification & quality control
3/4
Security & governance awareness
3/4
PRIMARY ROLE PROOF

The enterprise AI control plane

Control-plane design + a registered agent with scoped delegated authority + a policy denial + the orphaned-owner demonstration.

1 PUBLISHED FORMAT

Governed AI Delivery — Cohort 01

Open the FDE pathway →
ROLE 01BUILD + VERIFY

Full-stack AI developer

Builds and operates user-facing AI features across product, services, agent tooling, evaluation, and deployment boundaries.

TARGET
L3
HIGHEST FLOOR
3 / 4
ROUTE
18 modules
MODULE TIME
12 hr 37 min
CAPABILITY FLOORS
AI literacy & judgment
2/4
Prompting & instruction design
3/4
Workflow decomposition
3/4
Agent direction & oversight
3/4
Verification & quality control
3/4
Security & governance awareness
2/4
PRIMARY ROLE PROOF

Ship an agent to production

Working agent + consequence/coverage/variance release evidence + redacted event contract + measured cost sheet + exercised containment and rollback runbook.

1 PUBLISHED FORMAT

AI Native Developers — C03

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ROLE 02DEPLOY + OPERATE

Applied AI engineer

Turns a business workflow into a measurable AI system, then owns the evaluation, safety boundaries, and iteration needed to make it useful.

TARGET
L3
HIGHEST FLOOR
3 / 4
ROUTE
18 modules
MODULE TIME
12 hr 51 min
CAPABILITY FLOORS
AI literacy & judgment
3/4
Prompting & instruction design
3/4
Workflow decomposition
3/4
Agent direction & oversight
3/4
Verification & quality control
3/4
Security & governance awareness
3/4
PRIMARY ROLE PROOF

Design an agent fleet

Fleet architecture + working two-agent slice with evals.

2 PUBLISHED FORMATS

Agentic Workflows — Intensive 11 · Operator Lab 02 — In Person

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ONE STANDARD · THREE APPLICATIONS

The standard stays fixed. The role changes the required floors and evidence.

Every route is prerequisite-closed, every module link points to authored curriculum, and every role page names the workplace experience the curriculum does not claim to create.