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Domain Imprinter

Before an agent can practice medicine, navigate contract law, or manage a derivatives book, someone has to pour the right knowledge into it. The vocabulary, the reasoning patterns, the unstated assumptions that practitioners carry in their heads. That someone is you.


Full-time Remote-first Human role Reports to: Skill Architect Lead Cross-functional with Bot-Psychoanalysts

A general-purpose agent is a blank slate. A Domain Imprinter turns it into something that a cardiologist, a derivatives trader, or a civil engineer would trust. You are the conduit between a field of human expertise and the agents that operate within it — extracting tacit knowledge from practitioners, translating it into the structures agents can absorb, and validating the result against the domain standard you know from the inside.

This is not prompt engineering in the hobbyist sense. It's the work of making an agent genuinely fluent — aware of the exceptions, the edge cases, the professional norms, and the liability landscape of a real industry. When an imprinted agent fails, it usually fails because the imprint was shallow. Your job is to make it deep.

Knowledge extraction

Conduct structured interviews with domain experts to surface tacit knowledge that practitioners rarely articulate

Map the vocabulary, mental models, and decision heuristics that define expert judgment in your field

Identify unstated assumptions — the things every practitioner knows but no textbook says

Document edge cases, jurisdiction-specific rules, and context-dependencies that separate expertise from surface knowledge

Agent configuration

Translate extracted knowledge into system prompts, context documents, and structured knowledge bases

Configure agent personas that are credibly fluent — not just accurate, but professionally appropriate

Tune agent risk tolerance, communication style, and escalation thresholds to match domain norms

Build RAG corpora from authoritative domain sources and validate retrieval quality

Validation & testing

Design domain-specific evaluation suites — questions only a genuine expert would answer correctly

Test imprinted agents against practitioners and close the gaps they identify

Flag areas where agent knowledge is shallow, outdated, or confidently wrong

Refresh domain imprints as the field evolves — regulations change, best practices shift

Cross-functional work

Partner with Skill Architects to layer procedural skills onto the domain knowledge foundation you build

Brief Bot-Psychoanalysts when domain confusion appears to be causing behavioral drift

Present imprinting plans and fidelity reports to clients before agent deployment

Clinical medicine

Diagnosis, protocols, liability, triage

Legal & compliance

Contracts, jurisdiction, regulatory risk

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Financial services

Trading, credit, reporting, audit

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Engineering

Standards, failure modes, tolerances

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Scientific research

Methodology, peer review, reproducibility

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Policy & regulation

Rulemaking, interpretation, enforcement

Must-haves

7+ years of practitioner-level experience in your chosen domain — you've done the actual work

Ability to articulate implicit knowledge: you can explain what you know and why, not just what to do

Intuition for how AI systems absorb and misrepresent expertise — you've seen it fail

Strong synthesis skills — you extract signal from hours of expert interviews and mountains of documentation

Comfort with the limits of encoding: some knowledge resists imprinting, and you know when to stop

Nice-to-haves

Second domain specialization — cross-domain imprinters are in high demand

Background in knowledge engineering, ontology design, or information architecture

Experience building RAG pipelines, fine-tuning datasets, or evaluation frameworks

Consulting or advisory background — you're used to translating deep expertise into structured deliverables

You are a domain expert first. The technical layer is learnable — and we'll support you in learning it. What matters is that you develop enough fluency to build and test knowledge bases without engineering hand-holding, and enough intuition to know when an agent's output reflects the domain you gave it versus something it hallucinated around it.

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