Forward-Deployed Engineer

Forum Ventures

$110K — $130K *
Transportation
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of logistics or supply chain experience with a solid understanding of trucking operations
  • Proficiency in AI-native development tools such as Claude Code and Codex
  • Strong full-stack engineering skills with a focus on system integrations
  • High energy with confidence in customer-facing presentations
  • Demonstrated ability to take ownership and navigate ambiguity

Responsibilities

  • Embed with enterprise fleet customers to comprehend their workflows
  • Ship working software within the same week of initial discussions
  • Build integrations with telematics, TMS, and maintenance systems
  • Design agent workflows utilizing real-world fleet data
  • Manage the deployment process from discovery to production across multiple trucks

Benefits

  • Opportunity to be an early engineer in a growing start-up
  • Direct collaboration with company founders
  • Hands-on experience with real trucks and freight from day one
  • Potential for rapid career advancement as the company expands into the industry standard
  • Dynamic work environment with exposure to various aspects of logistics and technology
Full Job Description
The role

This is not a build-from-the-office job. You'll embed directly with enterprise fleet customers - sitting with maintenance directors, dispatchers, and shop managers - to understand their workflows, then ship working software the same week. You'll build integrations across telematics, TMS, and maintenance systems, design agent workflows on top of messy real-world fleet data, and own deployments end to end: from first discovery conversation to production running on thousands of trucks.

Must-have
  • Real logistics/trucking/supply chain experience - you've worked in or built for fleets, carriers, brokers, 3PLs, or fleet maintenance and understand how trucking operations actually run
  • Expert, daily-driver fluency with AI-native development tools - Claude Code, Codex, and agentic coding workflows are how you build, not something you're "familiar with." You should be able to demonstrate this live
  • Strong full-stack engineering with a bias for integrations: REST/webhook APIs, data pipelines, third-party systems (telematics, TMS, maintenance platforms)
  • Extremely high energy and customer-facing confidence - comfortable presenting to a VP of Maintenance in the morning and shipping the fix that afternoon
  • Extreme ownership - you run at ambiguity, don't wait for specs, and treat the customer's problem as yours
Nice-to-have
  • Prior forward-deployed experience (Palantir-style FDE / deployment strategist, or equivalent embedded customer engineering)
  • GCP
  • Palantir AIP / Foundry - ontology-driven data modeling and operational AI
  • Voice AI: ElevenLabs and Twilio
Why this role

You'll be the first deployment-side engineering hire at a company going from first enterprise contract to industry standard, working directly with the founders. Your work runs on real trucks moving real freight from week one.

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