About this role
About Flexport:
At Flexport, we believe global trade can move the human race forward. That’s why it’s our mission to make global commerce so easy there will be more of it. We’re shaping the future of a $10T industry with solutions powered by innovative technology and exceptional people. Today, companies of all sizes—from emerging brands to Fortune 500s—use Flexport technology to move more than $19B of merchandise across 112 countries a year.
The recent global supply chain crisis has put Flexport center stage as we continue to play a pivotal role in how goods move around the world. We are proud to have the support of the best investors in the game who believe in our mission, solutions and people. Ready to tackle global challenges that impact business, society, and the environment? Come join us.
At Flexport, we are building the unified Supply Chain Operating System for global trade. While traditional SaaS companies sell static dashboards and walk away, Flexport's Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) embed directly on the frontlines with enterprise clients (such as Fortune 500 retailers, automotive manufacturers, and tech giants) to solve high-stakes supply chain challenges.
You are an operational strike-team leader who sits at the intersection of full-stack software engineering, applied AI, operations research, and executive client strategy. Deployed to client command centers and logistics hubs, you will connect fragmented enterprise data, architect solutions, and build agentic AI systems that optimize real-world cargo moving across ocean, air, and land.
You won't just write code in a vacuum, you will embed with client engineering leaders and VPs of Supply Chain, map messy operational reality into production software, and deploy autonomous workflows that directly eliminate millions in logistics waste.
You Will
• Embed & Map: Travel to client sites to map end-to-end supply chain processes, audit legacy systems, uncover hidden financial leaks, and translate complex operational constraints into technical architectures.
• Design and build production solutions spanning customer applications, internal tools, APIs, data pipelines, decision-support systems, and workflow automations connecting directly to client ERPs (SAP, Oracle, NetSuite), WMS, and TMS systems
• Build & Deploy Applied AI Solutions: Design and ship production-grade AI applications, agentic LLM workflows, and decision engines.
• Solve Complex Mathematical Optimization: Apply optimization algorithms and analytical methods to real-world logistics challenges to problems such as routing, mode selection, inventory positioning, container utilization, consolidation, and exception prioritization.
• Own the 90-Day Sprint Lifecycle: Drive high-velocity deployment sprints, taking solutions from discovery and architecture to live production deployment, operator adoption, and verified hard-dollar ROI measurement.
• Productize the Field: Partner closely with Flexport core P