Founding Engineer (Forward-Deployed)

Our client is building a small, talent-dense team to deploy AI agents into the most critical supply chains in the world. They need end-to-end engineers who can go from a customer's factory floor to shipping production code in the same week.

• →Deploy forward with customers and embed with procurement and supply chain teams to understand their hardest operational problems firsthand
• →Translate real-world insights into product and infrastructure features that meaningfully improve the platform
• →Own entire workstreams end-to-end, from scoping through deployment
• →Work closely with the founders to define the technical and strategic direction of the company
• →Set the standard for what agentic supply chain software looks like

Experience

• 2+ years as a full-stack or backend-leaning engineer
• Has shipped code to production in a professional capacity and owned real stakeholder outcomes
• Experience at an early-stage startup or a prestigious larger company
• Forward-deployed engineering experience, or experience at a company with a strong forward-deployed engineering motion
• Domain experience in supply chain or procurement

Education

• CS or equivalent technical degree, ideally from a strong program (e.g., Berkeley, Purdue)

Hard skills

• Proficient in Python (bonus for TypeScript and React)
• Regular user of AI coding assistants (e.g., Copilot, Cursor)
• Experience building with or deploying LLMs / AI models

Other requirements

• A verifiable signal of excellence (prestigious company, notable achievements, hackathon wins, etc.)
• Willing to travel every 1–2 months, including international travel

Not a fit

• Career stagnation or lack of significant impact in prior roles