We're building the AI Agent for logistics

The first "skill" we built for the Vooma Agent automates order entry from shippers, which is the process of reading emails and keying in details about a load. It's a ubiquitous and expensive pain point for brokers and carriers, and the perfect wedge for building our broader platform.

The second skill we launched automates quoting. For every truckload that our customers move, they quote on many more, often by email. By embedding in a user's email inbox, Vooma is able to automate most of the quoting process, and surface critical funnel data that has historically been hidden in thousands of emails.

We've raised our seed round from Tier 1 investors and leading industry angels. We have enterprise contracts with leading logistics companies. Our team is made up of top talent from AI research and autonomous vehicles.

Our team

Vooma is founded by Jesse Buckingham and Mike Carter. Mike built self driving trucks as a founding engineer at Kodiak Robotics (raised $250M) where he established and led their motion planning and safety teams. Jesse was previously CEO at a private equity backed logistics software company that sold to brokers and truckers which he grew from $2M to $20M+ ARR.

Our values

• Aim High
• Action Over Thinking
• Full Force, Sharp Arrow
• Long Term Games, With Long Term People
• Tag, You’re It
• Embrace Candor
• Float Like A Butterfly
• Get Your Hands Dirty
• We’re A Business
• All-Star Team

Enterprise software is in the midst of a revolution. 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.

The opportunity for AI agents is dramatically larger than the opportunity for pure software; businesses spend orders of magnitude more on labor than on traditional forms of software. Every major vertical will begin to adopt AI labor, and we believe the most important companies of the AI revolution will be the ones that lead this shift.

Vooma’s mission is to build the AI Agent 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.

Vooma is backed by top-tier investors and CEOs, founders and executives from Nolan, Arrive, MoLo, NFI, Convoy, Uber Freight, Motive, Loop, OTR Capital, Project44, Trucker Tools and more. We have enterprise contracts with many of the largest freight businesses in the US.

This is a rare opportunity for you to join a talented and experienced team at the ground level to build a transformational company for a critical industry.

About the tech

At Vooma, you’ll harness the power of LLMs to transform the way freight is executed. You’ll work with us to combine the latest in computer vision, natural language and autonomous systems  to build robust AI behaviors and stunning product experiences for logistics teams that weren’t previously possible.

You’ll work with a modern web stack (Next.js, GraphQL, Node) and a cutting-edge AI stack (OpenAI, Anthropic, Open-Source models). You’ll code primarily in Typescript and Python.

About the role

Logistics is a highly fragments industry for software. To build useful products for our customers, we need to build robust and scalable data pipelines between Vooma and proprietary and third party data systems. Within Vooma, we need to scale our ability to handle the vast different types of structured and unstructured data that will feed our AI workflows.

You will be responsible for designing and scaling these data pipelines, integrating the data with our AI systems, and working with customers to ensure that these data pipelines properly model their workflows.

This role is great for someone who is:

• Has past backend experience and would like to grow and scale our data and AI infrastructure.
• Is excited about the idea of working directly with customers.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Implementing and managing automated workflows and data pipelines for seamless communication between platforms
• Designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable platform features and integrations with third-party software and APIs
• Collaborating with customers to gather requirements and translate them into technical solutions

You likely have:

• Experience and / or appetite for working at a startup
• 1-4+ years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on platform development and integrations
• Experience integrating third-party APIs and building scalable data pipelines
• Excellent problem-solving skills with attention to detail
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Eagerness to wear multiple hats, lead new initiatives, learn new technologies, and get it done; whatever it is

Compensation

• The rare opportunity to join a formidable team to build an enduring company, in person, as a first 15 employee
• Competitive compensation
• Significant equity upside
• Medical / dental / vision

Location

This role is based in person in San Francisco, CA (not remote).