# Forward Deployed Engineer at Vooma

- Company: Vooma
- What the company does: Backed by Index and Y Combinator.
- Company website: http://vooma.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco Office
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $100K to $200K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2025-05-29
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/vooma/19e61d82-8d3d-453d-815d-051bf1fc57d3
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/vooma-forward-deployed-engineer/

## About the role

Your role, should you choose to join us, will be a Forward Deployed Engineer on our founding team. This is where the rubber meets the road. You'll be the bridge between our cutting-edge AI agent technology and the real-world systems that power America's freight industry. You'll work directly with enterprise customers to design, build, and deploy custom integrations that bring our AI agents to life in their day-to-day operations.

## What they're looking for

- Full-stack builder mindset - comfortable moving between backend APIs and frontend interfaces
- Integration expertise - fluent in REST/GraphQL, webhooks, message queues, and authentication schemes (OAuth2, SAML, etc.)
- LLM/agent experience - hands-on with prompt engineering, vector search, and evaluation metrics, can translate business logic into agent workflows
- Customer empathy + communication skills - can seamlessly switch between C-suite strategy discussions and ops-floor technical details
- Rapid prototyping habit - bias for action, willing to hack, test, and refactor under tight deadlines
- Structured problem-solving - break complex logistics processes into modular components, spot edge cases early, and make data-driven decisions

Tags: Engineering