AI Engineer

Cargomatic is the #1 technology platform and digital marketplace for powering world-class, local trucking, transforming the $82 billion local trucking industry.

AI Engineer - Rapid Prototyping & Automation: Cargomatic is seeking a highly hands-on AI Engineer who thrives in fast-paced environments and is passionate about rapid prototyping and deploying standalone AI-driven applications. This role focuses on building agentic AI systems and automation tools that can operate independently, integrate with our ecosystem, and deliver immediate business value.

Key Responsibilities:

• Rapidly design, prototype, and deploy standalone AI applications that solve real-world logistics and operational challenges.
• Build and implement agentic AI systems capable of autonomous decision-making and task execution.
• Develop AI-powered automation tools to streamline workflows across operations, customer experience, and internal processes.
• Leverage modern LLM ecosystems, including Claude-based and code-first AI frameworks, to build intelligent agents and workflows.
• Integrate LLMs, APIs, and data pipelines into production-ready services.
• Implement guardrails, validation layers, monitoring, and evaluation frameworks to mitigate hallucination, prompt injection, and data security risks.

Preferences:

• 3+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on AI/ML or automation.
• Proven experience building and deploying AI-powered applications or prototypes end-to-end.
• Strong understanding of agentic AI concepts, LLMs, and modern AI frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with Claude (Anthropic), OpenAI, or similar LLM APIs, including prompt design and orchestration.
• Experience with code-based AI frameworks (e.g., Claude tool use / function calling, LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI, or similar).
• Experience building or orchestrating workflows using n8n (or similar).