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ZoomLogi

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$150K - $200K/yr

... of UPS Air, and CEO of Uber Freight. They know the market is as large as the problem is broken ... flight data, customer ERPs. Most don't have clean APIs. Some claim a shipment is delivered while ...

Zoomlogi

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)

Chicago, IL · On-site

$150 - $200/hr

... of UPS Air, and CEO of Uber Freight. They know the market is as large as the problem is broken ... flight data, customer ERPs. Most don't have clean APIs. Some claim a shipment is delivered while ...

Zoomlogi

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$150 - $200/hr

... of UPS Air, and CEO of Uber Freight. They know the market is as large as the problem is broken ... flight data, customer ERPs. Most don't have clean APIs. Some claim a shipment is delivered while ...

ZoomLogi

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)

Chicago, IL · On-site

$150K - $200K/yr

... of UPS Air, and CEO of Uber Freight. They know the market is as large as the problem is broken ... flight data, customer ERPs. Most don't have clean APIs. Some claim a shipment is delivered while ...

Hermeus

Structures Manufacturing Engineer

Los Angeles, CA · On-site

$95K - $140K/yr

... move flight hardware forward. Responsibilities: * Own the design, fabrication, and validation of ... Perform mechanical checks, fit-ups, and hands-on trials to qualify tooling for development and ...

Hermeus

Structures Manufacturing Engineer

Los Angeles, CA · On-site

$95K - $140K/yr

... move flight hardware forward. Responsibilities: * Own the design, fabrication, and validation of ... Perform mechanical checks, fit-ups, and hands-on trials to qualify tooling for development and ...

Long Wall

Head of Launch Systems

Long Beach, CA · On-site

This role will carry forward Long Wall's proven track record of developing mobile launch systems ... Power systems (prime power, UPS, switching, protection) * Pneumatic systems (high-pressure gas ...

Long Wall

Head of Launch Systems

Long Beach, CA · On-site

This role will carry forward Long Wall's proven track record of developing mobile launch systems ... Power systems (prime power, UPS, switching, protection) * Pneumatic systems (high-pressure gas ...

Long Wall

Head of Launch Systems

Long Beach, CA

$145K - $230K/yr

This role will carry forward Long Wall's proven track record of developing mobile launch systems ... Power systems (prime power, UPS, switching, protection) * Pneumatic systems (high-pressure gas ...

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How much do ups flight forward jobs pay per hour?

As of Aug 21, 2026, the average hourly pay for ups flight forward in the United States is $28.30, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $24.28 and $28.85 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is a UPS Flight Forward?

A UPS Flight Forward job involves working with UPS's drone delivery service, which focuses on transporting packages using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Employees may be responsible for operating drones, managing logistics, ensuring regulatory compliance, and maintaining safety standards. This role is crucial for expanding UPS's capabilities in time-sensitive deliveries, such as medical supplies and urgent shipments. Positions can range from drone pilots and technicians to operational planners and regulatory specialists.

What are the typical daily responsibilities of a UPS Flight Forward team member?

As a UPS Flight Forward team member, your daily responsibilities may include preparing and executing cargo transport flights (either piloted or remotely operated), monitoring shipment status and delivery schedules, ensuring all safety and regulatory protocols are followed, and completing routine pre- and post-flight inspections. You'll work closely with logistics managers, ground crews, and technology support teams to coordinate seamless air cargo deliveries. Attention to detail and the ability to adapt to changing operational demands are important, as shipments and route conditions may vary day to day. This collaborative, technology-driven environment offers the chance to contribute to cutting-edge logistics solutions while supporting reliable package delivery for customers.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive in the UPS Flight Forward position?

To excel in a UPS Flight Forward role, candidates typically need experience in aviation operations, logistics management, and regulatory compliance, along with relevant FAA certifications for pilot or crew positions. Familiarity with specialized cargo tracking software, drone technology, and aircraft maintenance systems is often required, depending on the specific function. Effective communication, problem-solving skills, and the ability to work well under pressure distinguish outstanding team members. These capabilities are crucial to ensure safe, timely, and efficient operation of autonomous or crewed air cargo deliveries within a complex logistics network.

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Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)

ZoomLogi

San Francisco, CA • On-site

$150K - $200K/yr

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Life

Re-posted 13 days ago

Job description

Who We Are
Nobody calls a logistics coordinator to say things went well. They call because a $100,000 shipment of clinical trial medication has been sitting in customs for three days and nobody can explain why. Because a biologic therapy arrived outside its temperature window and the treatment has to start over. Because the patient is waiting and nobody in the supply chain can give a straight answer about the shipment's location.
This is the problem we're solving. We're a year in, tracking over 500,000 shipments (including for Fortune 100 customers), and we've already cut manual ops effort in half. General Catalyst, Eclipse Ventures, and Virtue led the seed. The angels are all former or current operators who've spent careers tracking down shipments themselves, such as Head of Logistics at Bristol Myers Squibb, CMO of Cardinal Health, President of Novo Nordisk US, President of UPS Air, and CEO of Uber Freight. They know the market is as large as the problem is broken.
What we've built works, and the most interesting problems are still ahead of us.
- Olivier, Co-founder & CEO
The Role
This is a Forward Deployed Engineering role at a company that's already in production. You'll work directly with customers to deploy, configure, integrate, and roll out ZoomLogi across their operations, and you'll write code that runs on real shipments from day one.
As our second Founding FDE, you'll own implementations end to end: technical onboarding, data integration, troubleshooting, and ongoing optimization. You're the critical feedback loop between customers and engineering, the person who hears the problem in a customer's warehouse and turns it into product. Beyond deployment, you'll ship features into the core platform alongside the engineering team. And you'll carry GTM impact, helping identify opportunities and drive deals to close.
The work spans deployment, code, and commercial. If you want to be close to customers, close to the product, and close to the outcome, this is that seat.
What You'll Do
  • Own implementations end to end. From the first technical onboarding call to a customer running ZoomLogi in production, you own it. Data integration, configuration, sensor and carrier setup, workflow design against each customer's SOPs, troubleshooting, and the ongoing optimization that keeps a deployment healthy. When something breaks at 9pm before a Fortune 100 go-live, you're the one who gets it live.
  • Integrate against the real world. The platform connects to 50+ external systems: carriers, IoT sensors, forwarders, telematics, weather, flight data, customer ERPs. Most don't have clean APIs. Some claim a shipment is delivered while the GPS shows it still in transit. Some go silent without warning. Every new customer brings two or three of their own. You'll build integrations that hold up against that messiness and feed patterns back into a framework that lets the next one ship in days.
  • Ship code into the core platform. This is not a configuration-only role. You'll contribute features and improvements across our Python backend and TypeScript/React frontend, alongside engineering. What you learn in a deployment often becomes the thing you build the following week.
  • Close the feedback loop. You'll be in customer calls constantly, because what you hear there is what should get built. You translate real-world operational complexity into product solutions, and you're the voice in engineering planning that says "here's what customers actually need."
  • Carry GTM impact. You'll help identify opportunities inside accounts and drive deals to close. Technical credibility in front of a prospect is often what moves a deal, and you'll bring it.
  • Show up on site. Some deployments need you in the room. Expect to travel up to roughly 30% of the time to be on a customer's floor, build alongside their ops team, and run demos in the environment where the product actually has to work.

Who Thrives Here
  • You have a specific recent example of something you deployed, owned, and got working for a real customer. And you care about what happens after the kickoff call.
  • You're comfortable with ambiguity. The most interesting problems here don't come with detailed specs: you hear something from a customer, you figure out what to build or configure, and you do it. If you prefer a PM and a solutions architect to define the work before you start, this role will be frustrating for you.
  • You find the domain genuinely interesting. The compliance constraints, the quality/logistics tension, the fact that what you deploy is moving medication to real patients: these should feel like compelling design constraints, not obstacles. An engineer who finds regulated industries tedious won't do their best work here.
  • You like customers. Not tolerate them, like them. The product and commercial decisions that come out of being in the room with an ops team are the ones worth making, and you'd rather be in that room than shielded from it.
  • You're honest about what you don't know. We debate hard, change our minds, and challenge each other, but always with the assumption that everyone is trying to get it right.

This role is probably not right for you if you want to go deep on one hard technical problem and be left alone, or if customer contact feels like a tax on engineering time. The surface area is wide: deployment, integrations, core platform code, troubleshooting, and commercial. If switching contexts drains you, this will too.
What We're Looking For
You have 2-10 years of professional experience as a forward deployed engineer, full-stack engineer, solutions/implementation engineer, or in a similar role where you've owned customer-facing technical work. You're genuinely full-stack: comfortable across backend, frontend, and APIs, and able to ship production code on a small senior team. You've built 0-1 products and you're comfortable with the ambiguity that comes with them. You're strong in TypeScript/React and Python, or close enough to ramp quickly. You understand data modeling and API design, and you've done real integration work (APIs, ETL, webhooks, file feeds) and debugged it in production. You're comfortable running technical onboarding and scoping integrations directly with customers. You're based in San Francisco or Chicago and excited about being in the office.
Bonus: experience in logistics, supply chain, healthcare/life sciences, or another regulated, operationally complex domain.
The Team
Founded by a team of operators with deep experience in Logistics Tech & Healthcare (Ex-Uber Freight GM + Airspace CRO), joined by rockstar engineers from the likes of Abbott, Uber, Hippocratic AI, BAM (Hedge fund), and others. We're here to solve a real-world problem at scale, by making every critical shipment visible, predictable, and on time, so potentially life-saving therapies reliably reach the people who need them.
The Stack
Python, React/TypeScript, Kafka, AWS. We do a lot of low-fidelity prototyping, Google Slides included. LLM infrastructure and orchestration are increasingly central to how we build.
The Interview Process
We move quickly.
  • Intro call: role fit, motivation, what you've shipped and deployed
  • Technical screen: a realistic problem close to the actual work
  • Onsite: we'll work through a deployment-style problem together
  • References → Offer

Compensation & Logistics
  • Base salary: $150K-$200K
  • Equity: Above market (4-year vesting, 1-year cliff)
  • Benefits: Best-in-class medical and dental (100% self, 50% dependents)
  • Location: San Francisco HQ (Mission). Hybrid, 4 days/week in office.

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