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Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Project44 · Chicago · On-site

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About Project44

Introducing Movement: The AI-powered Decision Intelligence Platform for the modern supply chain. Gain control with smart, intuitive solutions—powered by Supply Chain AI. Backed by Insight and Sapphire.

About the role

For years, project44 focused on global shippers as our core customer. That focus worked. Our Shipper business is a category leader growing 20% year-over-year. That strength is what makes the next chapter possible. This is a small, hand-picked team operating across Chicago, San Francisco, Bangalore, and the EU. Flat org. Forward-deployed engineering. AI coding tools across the workflow. Agents as the product surface. Customers who pilot in weeks and tell you what they think directly.

What they're looking for

  • Own end-to-end integration for dedicated LSP accounts — configure bi-directional webhooks and event-driven pipelines so AI agents can read, act, and write data into customer TMS, WMS, and ERP systems instantly
  • Unify disparate customer data into a single actionable signal — driving dynamic interoperability across core business systems
  • Customize interfaces and agent logic to fit existing LSP workflows across freight procurement, load tendering, and exception handling — reducing time-to-value and making adoption feel natural
  • Feed the right context to agents and debug decisions when they go wrong — tracing failures back to the specific data point, prompt, or tool use that caused them
  • Build event-driven pipelines (Kafka/PubSub) that carry agent intent at the scale of millions of logistics events per day
  • Serve as the ground truth — we can't build a world-class product in a silo. Your field observations directly inform what gets on the roadmap and when
More about this role

Why p44LSP.ai?

At project44, we believe in better — and p44LSP.ai is what better looks like for the logistics service provider market.

For years, project44 focused on global shippers as our core customer. That focus worked. Our Shipper business is a category leader growing 20% year-over-year. That strength is what makes the next chapter possible.

Shippers and LSPs are fundamentally different businesses. Shippers buy logistics software to support their core operations. Logistics Service Providers — freight forwarders, brokers, and 3PLs — sell logistics as their product. Their software is their competitive edge. They buy fast, build on APIs and agents, and reward teams that ship in weeks, not quarters.

This is why we created p44LSP.ai: a dedicated, AI-native division built to serve the LSP market with the focus, speed, and resources it deserves. It's the scope and ownership of an AI startup, backed by the infrastructure of a $124M business — 259K carriers, billions of shipment outcomes, agents in production, and direct access to project44's data graph, carrier network, and enterprise relationships.

This is a small, hand-picked team operating across Chicago, San Francisco, Bangalore,...

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