Forward-Deployed Engineer

The role

You will embed directly with enterprise fleet customers to understand workflows and ship working software. You will build integrations across telematics, TMS and maintenance systems and design agent workflows on top of fleet data.

What you will do

• Embed directly with enterprise fleet customers
• Understand workflows by sitting with maintenance directors, dispatchers, and shop managers
• Ship working software the same week
• Build integrations across telematics, TMS and maintenance systems
• Design agent workflows on top of messy real-world fleet data
• Own deployments end to end from first discovery conversation to production

Required qualifications

• Real logistics/trucking/supply chain experience
• Worked in or built for fleets, carriers, brokers, 3PLs, or fleet maintenance
• Expert, daily-driver fluency with AI-native development tools, Claude Code, Codex, and agentic coding workflows
• Strong full-stack engineering with a bias for integrations: REST/webhook APIs, data pipelines, third-party systems
• Extremely high energy and customer-facing confidence
• Extreme ownership

Nice to have

• Prior forward-deployed experience (Palantir-style FDE / deployment strategist, or equivalent embedded customer engineering)
• GCP
• Palantir AIP / Foundry, ontology-driven data modelling and operational AI
• Voice AI: ElevenLabs and Twilio

About the company

Elmeeda is the decision and coordination layer for American trucking. They are a Palantir Startup Fellowship company backed by investors across AI, defense ontology, and fleet innovation.