Flexport is hiring Forward Deployed Engineers for Supply Chain Solutions at $206K–$252K base

Flexport is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer for Supply Chain Solutions in San Francisco, with up to 50% travel to client sites and logistics hubs. The posted US base range is $206,181–$252,000, before bonus and equity.

Unlike a typical SaaS implementation role, the posting frames FDEs as an operational strike team: map end-to-end supply chain processes on site, connect fragmented enterprise data, and ship production apps, APIs, pipelines, and agentic LLM workflows that plug into client ERPs such as SAP, Oracle, and NetSuite, plus WMS and TMS systems.

The job asks for 4+ years of full-stack production engineering (Python, TypeScript/React, SQL, APIs), hands-on AI or mathematical optimization experience, and comfort whiteboarding with executives and sitting with frontline operators at ports and cross-docks. Ownership runs through a 90-day sprint from discovery to live deployment and measured ROI, with field builds fed back into Flexport’s platform.

For FDEs, this is a clear signal that logistics and trade tech companies are adopting the embedded-engineer model for high-stakes operational AI, not just model labs and enterprise software vendors.