Forward-Deployed Engineer
Forum Ventures2 months ago
Responsibilities
- Embed with enterprise fleet customers at customer sites to understand workflows and operational needs.
- Build and deploy integrations across telematics, TMS, maintenance platforms, and other third-party systems.
- Design agent workflows using real-world fleet data.
- Ship working software and customer fixes rapidly, including within the same week.
- Own deployments end to end from discovery conversations through production operation across thousands of trucks.
- Present to customer executives and collaborate with maintenance directors, dispatchers, and shop managers.
Requirements
- Real logistics, trucking, supply chain, fleet, carrier, broker, 3PL, or fleet-maintenance experience.
- Expert daily-use fluency with Claude Code, Codex, and agentic coding workflows.
- Strong full-stack engineering skills with a focus on integrations, APIs, data pipelines, and third-party systems.
- Confidence working directly with enterprise customers and presenting to senior customer stakeholders.
- High ownership and comfort operating independently in ambiguous environments.
Benefits
- Full-time role based in Chicago, Illinois, with travel to customer fleet sites.
- Opportunity to work directly with the founders as the first deployment-side engineering hire.
- Work impacts real trucks and freight from the first week.
- Preferred experience includes forward-deployed engineering, Palantir-style deployment strategy, GCP, Palantir AIP, Foundry, ElevenLabs, and Twilio.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Forum Ventures
Forum Ventures is an early-stage venture fund, accelerator, and venture studio focused on B2B software startups. It invests at pre-seed and seed, runs cohort-based accelerator programs and a venture studio, and supports founders with capital, mentorship, and go-to-market resources in exchange for equity. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York with hubs in San Francisco and Toronto, it has backed 500+ companies globally.