AI platform engineer in freight forwarding

People assume the supply chain is an automated, algorithmic system. It is not. It is a large number of people acting as the glue between organisations and systems, doing work the world depends on with tools that have barely changed in decades. Nexcade builds AI agents for those people, starting in freight forwarding, a $210BN industry.

• You build best in class products for the core jobs in freight forwarding, one job at a time.
• You work as a design partner with our customers to understand the work deeply, turn that understanding into a product they would choose over anything else, and feed what you learn back into the platform everyone builds on.
• You raise the ceiling on what our AI can do and the floor on how reliably it does it.
• That spans high volume tasks like classification and extraction and deep workflow tasks that run for hours.
• You design for performance, reliability, explainability and control, set up the gyms and evals to measure them, and build the harness that runs our agents in all of our products.
• You own the foundation every product stands on: the runtime for thousands of concurrent agents and workflows, the way they communicate and scale, the controls for how they access data with permissions that hold, and the observability to see and measure all of it.
• You ensure the rest of the team can move fast without fear.

• A spike, with evidence. Something you have been exceptional at and proof of it.
• Strong fundamentals. In the AI-assisted era, having good technical judgement is key. You have shipped production systems people depend on, seen them fail and learned from it.
• High agency and ownership. You take an ambiguous problem, make a call, and see it through.
• Humility and learning velocity. You want to get better and you change your mind when the evidence says so.
• Interest in the problem. You do not need a freight background, but you need to find messy real-world operations interesting rather than a chore.

• In person, 4+ days a week in London. We value synchronous communication.
• You will shape the product, the architecture and the company, working alongside an engineering team from Palantir, Raft, Faculty, UnlikelyAI and Oxford.
• You will work directly with the businesses using what you build, on AI applied to an industry that has resisted software for decades.
• You will get meaningful equity, so when this works you share in it.