Forward Deployed Engineer
About The Position
Our client is building the AI operations platform for the physical economy across logistics, transportation, retail, and manufacturing. The company is building AI agents that automate operational workflows traditionally managed through spreadsheets, emails, phone calls, and ERP systems. Founded by Obaid Khan, who previously co-founded Motive (KeepTruckin) and helped scale it from $0 to $500M ARR and a $5B valuation. Raised a $15M seed round backed by Base10. Already has live enterprise customers and multiple $1B+ and $2B+ enterprise deals in late-stage discussions. Extremely early-stage and high-ownership engineering environment with only ~10 employees today. Founding engineers directly influence architecture, product direction, integrations, and customer workflows. Strong product and engineering leadership pedigree from Facebook Messenger, Airbnb, Discord, and other top product organizations. Building deeply technical AI agent orchestration systems integrating LLMs, voice automation, browser automation, and enterprise workflows.
Requirements
- 3+ years of full-stack engineering experience OR 2+ years exclusively at VC-backed startups
- Strong product-oriented engineering background with measurable ownership
- Experience shipping consumer, prosumer, or internal-facing products end-to-end
- Strong TypeScript, Node.js, and React engineering skills
- Experience working across both backend systems and frontend applications
- Experience with AI agents, LLM integrations, automation systems, or AI tooling
- Familiarity with prompt engineering, AI workflows, or agentic systems
- Experience integrating enterprise APIs, third-party systems, or operational tooling
- Strong startup execution mentality with ability to move quickly and independently
- Comfortable operating in ambiguous, high-intensity startup environments
- Strong communication and product thinking ability
- Experience owning medium-to-large projects with measurable business impact
- Ability to collaborate directly with customers and product stakeholders
- Strong systems thinking and architectural reasoning skills
Nice To Haves
- Experience at high-growth startups or elite product engineering companies
- Experience at companies like Stripe, Figma, Ramp, Discord, Notion, Rippling, Retool, Scale AI, Cursor, or AI-native startups
- Experience building AI agents, automation systems, or workflow orchestration platforms
- Founder or early-stage startup engineering experience
- Strong product ownership and customer empathy
- Experience building integrations with enterprise platforms and APIs
- Strong React + Node.js product engineering depth
- Experience using AI coding tools like Claude Code or Cursor
- Evidence of strong product intuition and UX thinking
- Fast execution speed and strong engineering autonomy
- Experience working directly with customers or operational workflows
- Demonstrated startup grit and ability to wear multiple hats
- Strong communication and concise technical articulation
- Background in logistics, operational tooling, or workflow automation is a plus
- Experience building scalable AI-enabled products from scratch
Responsibilities
- Build and scale AI-native workflow orchestration systems for enterprise operations teams
- Develop full-stack product features across backend infrastructure and frontend user experiences
- Build integrations with enterprise systems including Salesforce, Outlook, ERPs, TMS platforms, and operational tooling
- Design and implement AI agent workflows, automation systems, and orchestration layers
- Build and harden platform capabilities involving voice, browser automation, and multi-agent systems
- Own projects end-to-end from customer requirements gathering through production deployment
- Work directly with enterprise customers to understand workflows and operational pain points
- Translate customer requirements into scalable product capabilities and platform improvements
- Ship frontend experiences in React for operational AI workflows
- Build backend-heavy systems using Node.js, TypeScript, Python, and cloud infrastructure
- Reverse-engineer customer systems and rapidly prototype integrations
- Collaborate closely with the founding team on product direction and technical architecture
- Operate in a highly autonomous, fast-paced startup environment with high ownership
- Build V1 systems quickly with minimal process overhead
- Contribute directly to technical decisions that shape the long-term platform architecture
Benefits
- Base salary: $200,000 – $300,000
- Equity: 0.2% – 1%
- Highly impactful founding engineering opportunity
- Direct ownership over product and platform architecture
- Opportunity to work closely with experienced startup founders and operators
- Extremely fast-moving startup environment with significant career upside
- Ability to shape the future of AI agents for the physical economy
- Strong customer exposure and product ownership from day one
- Small, talent-dense engineering team with rapid iteration cycles
- First submission bonus available
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
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