About us
Forward Labs (https://forwardlabs.ai/) is building superhumans, autonomous AI agents for global freight the backbone of the global economy a trillion-dollar industry. (think scale.ai for freight)
The company was founded in San Francisco by 3 friends from Xendit (YC S15, 1st YC unicorn in Asia from Berkeley) early employees of an exited AI startup & 3 Y Combinator-backed startups from 0 to $1b+.
We're now a fully remote team. Our team is still quite small ( 10) so you'll have a massive impact on the trajectory of the business from Day One + working with the founders directly and learning about Silicon Valley & emerging market experience.
About the role
Responsibilities
- Work closely with various stakeholders (primarily clients & customer success team) to gather requirements and translate them into technical specifications
- Develop across technology stacks, including frontend, backend, databases, DevOps, automated testing, and alerting systems
- Work across the entire product lifecycle from conceptualization to production
- Architect and develop end-to-end operational solutions leveraging AI platform - focusing on accuracy, speed, and scalability
- Design and develop robust integrations with various external freight (TMS) & communication (email) systems - utilizing APIs or RPAs
- Write high-quality, maintainable, and testable code
- Proactively seek and implement improvements to the team's processes, codebases, and best practices
Tech stack
We are tech-stack agnostic in terms of the skill sets we are looking for, but the tech stack looks like the below (expect this to change as we grow):
- LLMs: OpenAI, Hugging Face, Mistral, DocumentAI
- Backend: Python, FastAPI, Typescript, Supabase
- Frontend: Next.js, GraphQL, Refine
- Infrastructure: AWS, GCP, Docker
A great fit, some or all of the following
- Strong understanding of system designs (idempotency, circuit breaker, message queues, etc)
- Familiarity with unit, integration, and E2E test frameworks
- Familiarity with instrumenting monitoring systems for ensuring the quality of the products in production (Sentry, Pagerduty)
- Is scrappy, comfortable with ambiguity, taking end-to-end ownership to ship, and values progress over perfection
- Wants to set, maintain, and adhere to great software engineering standards (architecture review, comments, testing, documentation)
- Never bored of spending time on your favorite newsfeed (e.g. Twitter, GitHub) browsing the latest computer concepts, codebase, and system designs
- Are enthusiastic about the vertical applications of AI/LLMs in logistics & future of work in particular
- Comfortable communicating in English
Bonus points
- Experience working with AI/freight startups
- Familiarity with AWS & GCP
- Want to be a founder someday
- Strong remote working communication skills
Interview Process
We expect the process to be complete within weeks.
- Video Call with founder(s): Values, culture-fit, getting to know more about you, and answer your questions about Forward Labs.
- [If needed] Take-home assignment/sample work submission
- Work trial (2 days to 1 week depending on availability and scope): to help you get a sense of how it feels to work with Forward Labs and vice versa. This will include, but not limited to - system architecture, prototyping, demo
