AI Engineer

The role

You will build and ship automations and agentic workflows to automate logistics workflows. You will determine the right approach for each workflow and deliver it in production.

What you will do

• Build and ship automations and agentic workflows that call internal REST and GraphQL APIs.
• Deliver document automation using managed services and LLM vision.
• Determine and design the right approach for each workflow including LLM, deterministic software, RPA, or purchased tools.
• Run build vs. buy evaluations including POCs and bake-offs.
• Partner with the RPA team to identify bots to augment or replace with AI.
• Coordinate with Engineering and Platform when automation needs platform changes.
• Build evaluation infrastructure including labeled datasets and LLM-as-judge pipelines.
• Make AI systems dependable through validation, fallbacks, and monitoring.
• Inventory and rationalize existing low-code automations.
• Prototype against real workflows and take work to production.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering, including hands-on experience shipping LLM-based or automation systems to production.
• Hands-on experience with LLM APIs (Anthropic, OpenAI) and agentic patterns.
• Experience building evaluation for non-deterministic systems.
• Experience evaluating and integrating third-party AI or automation tools.
• Strong backend engineering and REST/GraphQL API integration on AWS.
• Clear communication with non-technical stakeholders.
• A track record of shipping working systems beyond demos or prototypes.

Nice to have

• Freight or logistics background (TMS, EDI, drayage, or carrier/shipper operations).
• Document AI or OCR experience.
• Experience with RPA platforms (UiPath preferred).
• Low-code automation (Zapier) and workflow orchestration.
• SQL and dbt; experience with Redshift, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, or Firestore.
• React for lightweight internal tools.
• Active GitHub or open-source work.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 401K company match program
• Flexible paid time off (PTO)
• Paid holidays

About the company

Cargomatic is a technology platform and digital marketplace for local trucking. The company connects shippers and commercial truck drivers with mobile technology.