Founding Algorithm Developer

About Fleetline

Optimizing fleet planning with data driven algorithms

The role

### Fleetline writes optimization algorithms for large trucking companies. After a recent spike in contracted customers, we’re expanding the team and hiring founding engineers.**A bit about us*** \~$500k in contracted ARR within 3 months of launch, with a clear path to $1m in the next 6 months* Founded by two best friends from high school* Lean, welcoming, and highly aligned founding team; everyone is expected to care deeply about the vision and each other* Backed by top investors including BoxGroup, Base10, Bloomberg Beta, and Y CombinatorTrucking is a trillion-dollar industry where dispatchers make thousands of interdependent mathematical decisions every day. Why algorithm developers can be massively impactful in this industry should be self-evident.**About the role*** Build and scale core optimization algorithms used directly in production* Write optimization systems (e.g. MILPs, LPs, heuristics, etc.)* Build and maintain data pipelines that operate at real production scale* Move quickly from idea → implementation → customer usage* Contribute to long-term product and technical direction* Willingness to do whatever is needed technically, from deep algorithm work to integration and tooling* Comfortable being forward-deployed: talking to customers, understanding constraints, and solving concrete problems* In office in New York City is required.**What we’re looking for*** Has experience writing optimization algorithms (MILPs, ML, DP, RL, stochastic models, heuristics, or similar)* A generalist who can operate across the stack when needed* Ships code fast and often; **not a perfectionist*** Comfortable working in ambiguity with incomplete information* Extremely hardworking when part of a strong, mission-aligned team* Background may include top startups or big tech, ex-founder / founding engineer experience, or serious side projects that are shipped and live* Comfortable with Python and TypeScriptPedigree is not important. We’re looking for people who are intelligent, gritty, curious, and very good at getting real systems into the world.