# Forward-Deployed Engineer

Full-time · Chicago, IL (with travel to customer fleet sites) or Omaha About Elmeeda Elmeeda is the decision and coordination layer for American trucking. Every fleet runs 5-12 systems that don't talk to each other - telematics, TMS, maintenance, fuel, compliance - and today the fleet manager is the integration. Our AI reads every system and acts: when a truck throws a fault code 600 miles from base, Elmeeda assesses severity, picks the shop, calls the vendor, books the bay, files the warranty claim, recovers the load, and notifies the customer. We're live across multiple contracted fleets and deploying with a top-10 US carrier (10,000+ trucks). We're a Palantir Startup Fellowship company, winners of Palantir's DevCon hackathon, and backed by investors across AI, defense ontology, and fleet innovation. The role This is not a build-from-the-office job. You'll embed directly with enterprise fleet customers, sitting with maintenance directors, dispatchers, and shop managers to understand their workflows, then ship working software the same week. You'll build integrations across telematics, TMS and maintenance systems, design agent workflows on top of messy real-world fleet data, and o

- **Id**: 858273
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/forumvc-forward-deployed-engineer>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Chicago, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-02T21:36:18Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-02
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T23:21:02Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 66
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2622
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Venture Capital, Angel Networks & Startup Accelerators

## Company

- **Id**: 694234
- **Name**: Forum Ventures
- **Domain**: forumvc.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/forumvc>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: yes
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 70
- **Open postings**: 14
- **Ghost share**: 0.5
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 150000
- **Max**: 180000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 180000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI Codex** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **ElevenLabs** — Optional: yes
- **GCP** — Optional: yes
- **Twilio** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 65

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-13T08:11:33Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 7
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.207
- **P room**: 0.36
- **Age days**: 65
- **Expected fill days**: 35
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 180000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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