As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Loop, you will bridge the gap between AI and the physical economy. You will embed with enterprise customers to solve complex integration challenges, shipping production code against legacy systems. Reporting directly to engineering, you'll drive product direction by turning field intelligence into scalable platform primitives.
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Forward Deployed Engineer at Loop
Join Loop, a $95M venture-backed AI powerhouse transforming the $100 trillion global supply chain. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll bridge the gap between cutting-edge AI and legacy logistics systems, embedding with Fortune 100 customers to ship real-world solutions. Backed by Founders Fund and Index Ventures, this role offers founder-level autonomy and acts as a premier training ground for future technical leaders. If you have 3-5 years of engineering experience and a passion for solving messy, high-impact integration challenges at the front lines, we want to hear from you.
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Location
San Francisco, United States
Compensation
Not Disclosed
Company
Loop
Role overview
Loop is a full-stack, verticalized AI platform for logistics and supply chains. It offers a modern transportation cost management platform that centralizes freight, parcel, and financial data to automate decision-making, provide insights for profit maximization, and unify messy shipment and tracking data for freight audits, payments, and real-time visibility. Loop serves shippers and third-party logistics providers with services including automated freight and parcel auditing, carrier payment processing, and integrated accounts payable and receivable. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
What you will do
- Lead technical discovery by mapping customer system landscapes like ERPs and TMS platforms to scope project plans for high-stakes enterprise deployments.
- Build and ship production-ready integrations and custom AI workflows that connect Loop’s platform to messy, legacy logistics infrastructure.
- Collaborate with product teams to debrief deployments and identify repeatable patterns that should be productized into the core platform.
Who this is a fit for
- Has 3-5 years of software engineering experience with a top-tier bar for code quality and end-to-end project ownership.
- Possesses deep experience integrating with enterprise legacy systems like ERPs or EDI feeds where documentation is often tribal knowledge.
- Demonstrates a product-founder mindset, capable of navigating ambiguous customer environments and translating business needs into buildable technical requirements.
Why this role is remarkable
- Join a $95M scale-up backed by tier-one investors like Founders Fund and Index Ventures while working on a $100 trillion global problem.
- Operate with founder-level autonomy, owning the full arc from commercial technical discovery to shipping working V1 solutions at customer sites.
- This role is explicitly designed as a training ground for future founders, led by a former founder in a high-growth environment.
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