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Forward-Deployed Engineer

Forum Ventures · Chicago · Remote

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About Forum Ventures

Forum Ventures is a founder-first AI venture studio, accelerator, and pre-seed fund for B2B startups. Founded 2014. 550+ portfolio companies. $1B+ in follow-on funding raised.

About 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.

What they're looking for

  • 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
More about this role

Full-time · Chicago, IL (with travel to customer fleet sites) or Omaha

Elmeeda is the decision and coordination layer for American trucking. Every fleet runs 5–12 systems that don't talk to each other - telematics, TMS, maintenance, fuel, compliance - and today the fleet manager is the integration. Our AI reads every system and acts: when a truck throws a fault code 600 miles from base, Elmeeda assesses severity, picks the shop, calls the vendor, books the bay, files the warranty claim, recovers the load, and notifies the customer. We're live across multiple contracted fleets and deploying with a top-10 US carrier (10,000+ trucks). We're a Palantir Startup Fellowship company, winners of Palantir's DevCon hackathon, and backed by investors across AI, defense ontology, and fleet innovation.

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...

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