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The world is shifting from \"systems of record\" to \"systems of automation\" - LLM powered agents and orchestrators that perform complex business tasks on behalf of and in concert with humans, with increasing levels of autonomy.\nVooma's mission is to build the AI orchestration platform for America's $800+ BN trucking industry. Everything we touch in the physical world is moved on a truck - it's the backbone of the US economy. Yet logistics today is still extremely manual, which makes it one of the hungriest industries for the shift toward AI Agents.\nAt Vooma, the products you'll build will help shippers, freight brokers, and trucking companies win more business and seamlessly execute freight. Our AI agents operate across voice, email, sms (and more) to automate critical workflows across the load lifecycle.\nVooma is backed by top-tier investors including Index Ventures, Craft Ventures, Y-Combinator, and CEOs, founders and executives from the logistics industry.\nAbout the role\nYour role, should you choose to join us, will be an AI Engineer on our founding team.\nYou're the right person for this role if you're excited to work at the frontier of applied AI, training and iterating advanced models that work in the real world. You’re driven by turning cutting-edge capabilities into reliable, high-performance systems that deliver highly scaled impact.\nYou're a great fit if you're known for going deep on model behavior and building systems that continuously improve through well-designed data flywheels. 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