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# Staff Applied AI Engineer, Autonomous Supply Chains

- **Company:** Flexport
- **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Spreadsheets, PostgreSQL, OpenAI, Next.js, Software Engineering, TypeScript, Workflow Management Systems, Rust (Programming Language), Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Large Language Models, Snowflake, Prompt Engineering, Agentic-AI
- **Published:** November 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.nl/details/5705664260

## About the Role

* 10+ years of software engineering experience, and you've built seriously with LLMs, whether in production, in side projects or just because you couldn't stop yourself.
 * LLM fluency: agent patterns, tool use, RAG, prompt design and evaluation. You know the difference between what works in production and what looks good in a demo.
 * Full-stack capability in TypeScript and Next.js. You can own a feature end to end.
 * Product instinct: you can tell what's worth building, not just how to build it.
 * A track record of leading ambiguous, cross-team technical work from idea to production.
 * Clear written and spoken communication in English, including design docs that people actually read.

 * Experience with workflow orchestration, such as Temporal.
 * Experience building internal tools or operator-facing applications., * We value builders. People who think end to end, do their own discovery and ship independently. Nobody hands you a spec.

## Description

Logistics is famously hard to automate, because the happy path rarely happens. One customer won't take deliveries on a Tuesday. Another wants invoices only on Fridays, with some lines merged and others renamed. Until recently, people handled all of that by hand. Now operators use Forge, the agentic platform we build, to automate their own work: catching anomalies, routing exceptions, escalating stuck containers and adjusting invoices to each customer. Forge remembers every customer's rules and learns from every workflow run, so it gets smarter every day.

Autonomous Supply Chains is our Applied AI team: small, senior and reporting to the VP of Engineering. Self-driving cars are rated from level 0 to level 5. Most of the freight industry still runs at level 0: people emailing spreadsheets. Our goal is level 5 for freight, with Forge as the best agentic platform there is, handling every complexity, every calamity and every odd preference without skipping a beat.

Stack: TypeScript, Rust, Next.js, Temporal, Postgres and Snowflake, with models from Anthropic, OpenAI and Google.

As a Staff Applied AI Engineer on Autonomous Supply Chains, you'll set the direction for the agents that run real logistics work. You'll find the highest-leverage problems in our operations, decide what's worth building, design the solution and ship it to operators moving freight across 135 countries. Nobody hands you a spec, and nobody needs to.

 * Set the technical direction for Forge: how its agents plan, remember, use tools and hand off to people.
 * Design and ship end-to-end AI agents that handle real logistics work, such as customs compliance, document processing, invoice validation and exception management.
 * Build the evaluation, guardrails and human-in-the-loop flows that make an agent trustworthy enough to run 24/7.
 * Stay on top of what's happening in the world of AI, and channel those innovations straight into the product. When Jev came out this fall, we had three use cases live within two weeks.
 * Work directly with operators, domain experts and leadership to turn ambiguous problems into shipped products, and measure whether they worked.
 * Cross organizational boundaries to understand problems deeply, align stakeholders and get things done without waiting for permission.
 * Raise the bar for the team through design reviews, mentoring and the patterns other engineers build on., Depending on your location, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) may regulate the way we manage the data of job applicants. By submitting your application, you are agreeing to our use and processing of your data as required. Please see our Privacy Notice at www.flexport.com/privacy for more information.

 * Three days a week is what we expect from the Amsterdam tech team in normal circumstances. Events, performance issues or a change in team policy can mean more time in the office.
Commitment to Equal Opportunity