Atomic Talent.
We partner with founders, labs, and investors to reduce risk on the hires that fundamentally shape how their companies build and operate.
Atomic Talent.
We partner with founders, labs, and investors to reduce risk on the hires that fundamentally shape how their companies build and operate.
Trusted by leaders in deep tech
Building irreducible teams in deep tech
At Atomic, we see talent differently.
Most firms treat a hire as a role to fill. We treat it as a change to your system.
We look for the people who sit at the core, create ripple effects, and carry real magnitude inside an organization.
Founders, labs, and investors come to us to de-risk these moments and attract the people at the gravitational center of how their company builds and operates.
Intelligence as a deliverable
Market insights, competitive landscape analysis, and compensation benchmarking come with every search. We deliver context, not just candidates—understanding the magnitude of the decision you’re making.
Technical Fluency
We understand the roles we’re filling at their core. From AI and quantum to cybersecurity and advanced computing—we speak your language and know what sits at the center of technical leadership.
Operator perspective
We’ve built teams, shipped products, and operated inside the environments we recruit for. That firsthand experience shapes how we evaluate talent—not just credentials, but how someone thinks, builds, and performs when the work is ambiguous and the stakes are real.
Deep tech sectors we serve
“John has been an incredible talent partner for us at Normal Computing. His understanding of AI technologies, the market, and commitment to our mission has been an asset for our team.”
Faris SbahiCEO, Normal Computing
We work with leaders who run toward hard problems — where intellect, curiosity, and experience are table stakes, and uncertainty is familiar ground.
The Team
John Ferneborg
FounderOver two decades embedded in the deep tech ecosystem, including Google X, working alongside quantum physicists, AI researchers, and defense technologists before founding Atomic Talent.
Trina Mabunay
Head of GrowthPreviously at Google X and QuSecure, where she shaped talent branding, marketing, and programs for teams building at the frontier of quantum and moonshot technologies.
Let’s make your team irreducible.
Whether you’re hiring your first quantum engineer or scaling a dual-use AI company, we’d like to hear from you.