TruckSmarter is building the operating system for the people who move the world’s freight.
Trucking is a massive, dynamic network: hundreds of thousands of carriers, tens of thousands of brokers, volatile prices, uncertain supply and demand, real-world constraints, and decisions made in minutes. Building products for it requires solving hard problems at the intersection of AI, mathematics, distributed systems, and product engineering working together.
We are looking for engineers who are excited by problems that do not have established patterns or obvious solutions. We value intellectual honesty, independent thinking, technical excellence, urgency, and ownership.
You will join a small team with experience building and scaling products at DoorDash, Uber Freight, LinkedIn, Affirm, Typeface, Flexport, Coinbase, and Strava.
What You'll DoYou will be given important, ambiguous problems and expected to understand them deeply, evaluate possible approaches, and build solutions that work in the real world.
Work with customers and teammates to understand the underlying problem, not merely the requested feature.
Turn ambiguous objectives into clear technical approaches, system designs, and measurable success criteria.
Build intelligent systems using techniques such as optimization, probability, machine learning, information retrieval, graph algorithms, and related methods.
Turn sophisticated mathematical and technical capabilities into products that are simple and intuitive for the people using them.
Design and build reliable, scalable systems that support long-running and concurrent workflows.
Contribute to strong technical standards through thoughtful design, clear communication, constructive reviews, and high-quality implementation.
Examples of the problems our engineers work on include:
Building autonomous agents that can create plans, execute them over hours or days, react to rapidly changing market conditions, and know when an objective has been achieved or is no longer possible.
Searching and personalized ranking hundreds of thousands of freight opportunities against multiple, sometimes competing constraints in under a second.
Designing systems that balance exploration of new strategies with exploitation of approaches known to work.
Resolving incomplete, ambiguous, or contradictory information about locations, loads, companies, people, times, and prices.
Coordinating concurrent workflows while enforcing fairness, resource limits, permissions, and safety constraints.
We care more about intellectual ability, technical depth, and demonstrated achievement than about matching a rigid checklist.
You’ll be a strong fit if you:
Have a strong foundation in computer science, mathematics, statistics, physics, operations research, or another quantitative field.
Can break down messy, ambiguous problems into clear, tractable ones.
Are comfortable moving between mathematical reasoning and production engineering.
Have built technically challenging systems, algorithms, infrastructure, or products.
Evaluate ideas rigorously using simulations, prototypes, benchmarks, experiments, production data, and other appropriate methods.
Learn unfamiliar domains quickly and take ownership of complex problems from approach through implementation.
Communicate complex ideas clearly and collaborate productively with other highly capable people.
You want to work with people who will challenge you.
You want difficult problems with real-world consequences.
You want the freedom and responsibility to find the right answer—not simply implement a spec.
And you want to build systems that can reshape how a massive industry operates.
We work in-person 5 days a week at our downtown San Francisco office. We believe the best products get built when people are in the same room. Fast feedback loops, real collaboration, and a team that genuinely enjoys working together. If that's how you do your best work, you'll fit right in.
Full health, dental and vision coverage
Daily catered lunch provided in-office, plus dinner covered for anyone working past 6:00pm
Commuter benefits
Flexible PTO
401k
Commuter benefits
We’d love for you to join us on this journey and are excited to review your application!
Skills Required
- 5+ years of industry experience
- Demonstrated ability to design and build complex systems
- Experience with LLMs and agentic AI architectures
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience
What We Do
Logistics is one of the single largest industries in the world ($8-12T globally, $2T in the US). A single percent of improvement drives profound change to every corner of the world -- from the cost of our goods, to the livelihoods of local communities, to even the impact on our environment. At TruckSmarter, we believe that to transform the industry, we must focus first on truck drivers. Trucks move 71% of freight in America & represent nearly 6% of the American workforce. However, despite the industry being one of the greatest levers of innovation throughout history, it is still deeply fragmented & structurally misaligned. Our mission is to empower truck driver's lives &, by doing so, build the future of the industry. Join us!
