# Forward Deployed Engineer - Supply Chain Solutions

**Company:** [Flexport](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/flexport)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Salary:** $183k – $230k/yr
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** Python, TypeScript, React, SQL, REST APIs, GraphQL, Relational Databases, Event-Driven Architecture, ETL, Llm Orchestration, Machine Learning, Mathematical Optimization, SAP, Oracle, NetSuite
**Posted:** 2026-08-06

> Build and deploy full-stack, AI, and optimization solutions directly with enterprise supply chain clients, integrating complex operational systems and measuring business impact. The role requires 4+ years of software engineering experience, strong systems and data architecture skills, customer-facing communication, and willingness to travel.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Travel to client sites to map end-to-end supply chain processes, audit legacy systems, identify financial leaks, and translate operational constraints into technical architectures.
- Design and build production solutions spanning customer applications, internal tools, APIs, data pipelines, decision-support systems, and workflow automations.
- Integrate with enterprise resource planning, warehouse management, and transportation management systems, including SAP, Oracle, and NetSuite.
- Design and deploy production-grade AI applications, agentic LLM workflows, and decision engines.
- Apply optimization algorithms and analytical methods to logistics problems including routing, mode selection, inventory positioning, container utilization, consolidation, and exception prioritization.
- Own high-velocity deployment sprints from discovery and architecture through production deployment, operator adoption, and verified ROI measurement.
- Partner with Product and Platform Engineering teams to turn client solutions into reusable platform capabilities.
- Work with logistics teams at ports, cross-docks, and client sites to validate software, train users, and ensure adoption.
- Communicate technical trade-offs, system architecture, and financial outcomes to technical leaders and executive stakeholders.

## Requirements

- BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, or a related technical field.
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience building customer-facing or mission-critical applications.
- Experience with Python, TypeScript, React, SQL, REST or GraphQL APIs, relational databases, and event-driven architectures.
- Demonstrated ability to build and integrate AI/ML solutions, LLM orchestration, agentic workflows, machine learning models, or mathematical optimization solvers.
- Strong skills in data modeling, ETL pipeline transformations, API integrations, and event-driven workflows across complex enterprise architectures.
- Willingness to work on-site with customers and travel to customer headquarters and logistics sites as needed.
- Ability to reason through messy data, operational dependencies, and economic trade-offs in high-ambiguity environments.
- High autonomy, a self-starter mentality, and a record of delivering end-to-end projects with measurable financial or operational impact.

## Nice-to-Haves

- Domain knowledge in global supply chain, ocean or air freight, customs compliance, warehousing, inventory management, or trade financing.
- Operations Research experience, including linear programming, network optimization, route planning, or queueing theory.
- Enterprise implementation experience.
- Experience as a Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Architect, Technical Consultant, or Founding Engineer.

## Compensation and Benefits

- Base salary range: **$183,000–$230,000 USD**.
- Compensation may also include bonus, equity, medical and dental benefits, and flexible time off.
- Up to 50% travel is required.

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