AI Product Engineer, TruckSmarter
$140-170k
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All-in-one platform serving truck drivers
Open for applications
All-in-one platform serving truck drivers
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$140-170k
Offers Equity
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower truck driver's lives and by doing so, build the future of the industry.
Role
Who you are
- To succeed in this role, you should have a passion for iterative product development, and possess an analytical mindset.
- You should be comfortable navigating the uncertainties of a startup environment, be flexible to shifting priorities, and be driven to revolutionize the $900B trucking industry.
- Minimum one (1) year of industry experience
- Drivers, not passengers
- Experience working in a fast-paced, startup environment
- Well-formed opinions on the capabilities of foundational models and AI agents
- At least a Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in a relevant field
- Engaging deeply with the entire product lifecycle, transforming high-level concepts into tangible, production-ready solutions
- A collaborative startup where you have full autonomy over your work and can make direct impact on both users and the team
- Building products using agentic AI architectures
- Solving problems with pragmatic, scalable and extensible solutions—you know how to strive for simplicity without compromising support for more complex use cases
- Playing a pivotal role in cultivating our team culture
- Work cross-functionally with the team to shape product strategy
- Working directly with our users to craft solutions which help them achieve financial success
What the job involves
- We're looking for software engineers to help us realize TruckSmarter's new vision of eliminating all inefficiencies in the freight industry. We are building text-based and voice-based AI agents that drive the external communication, perform reasoning, trigger specific actions and perform automated evaluations
- Work closely with product managers, UX/UI designers, and other engineers to align on requirements and define a scalable, extensible architecture
- Design and implement secure, scalable, and high-performance features end-to-end using Gen AI agents and the traditional classification and recommendation ML models
- Build high quality experiences while balancing scope and time-to-delivery
- Monitor the performance of the products and AI models and iteratively improve them
- Review code and offer constructive feedback to peers to ensure high-quality deliverables
- Contribute to crucial architectural decisions that will impact feature development for years to come
- Experiment with new technologies and frameworks to help us launch innovative features
- Some technologies we use today: Typescript, React, React-Native, Postgres, GPT-4, AWS CDK. There's no need to be a prior expert in our stack; it's more important that you learn new technologies quickly
- What Success Looks Like:
- Craft — Build high quality software that delights end users
- Ownership — Advocate for projects and solutions that you believe in and see them through to production
- Leadership — Level up your teammates by providing mentorship, guidance, and influence
Our take
The massive rise in eCommerce means that truck drivers are at an all-time demand, but the trucking industry massively lags behind many others in technological advancements. TruckSmarter delivers a free platform that allows truckers, carriers, and dispatchers to search and book loads, streamlining the entire trucking process.
The trucking industry has been historically fragmented, with truckers wasting countless hours searching for their next gig, followed by more time waiting to be loaded or unloaded – which can be very detrimental to truckers who are often paid per mile. Trucksmarter digital trucking platform addresses all these problems. It stands out from the competition by being a free-to-use service. It makes its revenue by offering truckers same-day payments for each load, in exchange for a small percentage of their fee, rather than charging to use the load board itself.
TruckSmarter has raised an impressive amount of funding from top investors and names in the industry, showing respect for and interest in its solution. The investment will be used to add more finance and banking tools to the company’s driver ecosystem.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
70% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2022
$25m
SERIES B
Apr 2022
$25m
SERIES B
Total funding: $69m
Company benefits
- 100% of premiums, 75% for dependents
- Unlimited PTO
- Monthly wellness stipend
- Parental leave
- Relocation support to move to SF or Chicago
- 401(k) program
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Daniel Kao
(Co-Founder & CEO)Investor & Advisor. Former General Manager, Shipper Platform & Head of Customer Success at Uber Freight. Co-founded Sharespace and Open Canal.
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