Founding Customer Support Engineer
FleetWorks
Location
Chicago, San Francisco
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
On-site
Department
Engineering
Every year, companies spend over a trillion dollars moving freight across the U.S. — but the system for matching trucks with jobs is still slow, manual, and fragmented. FleetWorks is fixing that.
We’re building AI voice and email agents that transform the chaotic freight booking process into a modern, intelligent marketplace. Our agents replace the endless phone calls, texts, and emails and match truckers who want to get paid with loads that need to be moved.
We’re hiring our first Support Engineer to build FleetWorks’ technical support function from the ground up. You’ll be the front line of defense for our customers—triaging issues, debugging across our stack, resolving tickets independently, and creating the runbooks and processes that will scale as we grow. This is a 0-to-1 role based in Chicago,with focus on supporting our EST and CST customers.
Learn about our series A here!
What you’ll do
Own first-line technical support for FleetWorks’ customers—diagnosing issues across AI agent logic, data, integrations, and configuration without needing an engineer to hand-hold you
Build the support engineering function from scratch: ticketing workflows, triage criteria, escalation paths, runbooks for known issues, and documentation standards
Resolve 80%+ of routine technical tickets independently within your first 90 days.
Handle day-to-day configuration changes, API Health Monitoring, agent behavior updates (prompting, routing rules, and call/email flows), compliance policy settings, and standard integration setup for customers and partners
Communicate directly with customers’ technical teams to troubleshoot and test integrations, translating complex issues into clear, actionable language for both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Surface patterns and recurring issues to Product and Engineering so that common problems get permanently fixed in the product rather than repeatedly triaged
What we look for
3+ years of professional experience in a technical support, support engineering, or similar hands-on debugging role
Strong debugging instincts—you can take a vague report like “the agent isn’t working right” and systematically narrow it to root cause across application logic, data, integrations, and configuration
Comfort reading logs, navigating APIs, and working across cloud infrastructure without needing hand-holding
Experience communicating with both technical and non-technical audiences—you can write a bug report that Engineering can act on immediately and explain an issue to an operations manager in plain language
A 0-to-1 builder mindset—you thrive in ambiguity, create structure where none exists, and feel ownership over building processes, not just following them
High agency—you see what needs to be done and do it, surface the state of things proactively, and handle urgent issues when freight is moving and customers need you
Curiosity about freight and logistics—you’re eager to learn loads, rates, TMS integrations, and the operational context that makes support issues time-sensitive
How we’ll get to know each other
Quick call with Megan, our Recruiter, for you to share your background, what draws you to support engineering at an early-stage startup, and to figure out together how that might fit in with what we’re building at FleetWorks
90-minute take-home exercise: a realistic debugging scenario where you’ll analyze logs, write a root cause analysis, make an escalation decision, and draft customer communications—no LeetCode, just the actual work
45-minute technical interview with an engineer to walk through your debugging approach and how you think about triage and escalation
Paid onsite work trial where you’ll triage simulated support tickets, diagnose issues, and present your findings—so we can see how you work and you can get to know us
We’ll talk with your references to help us understand how to best support your development at work—we might do this after you’ve signed your offer
Transparent offer process that clearly outlines how we came to the compensation package we’re offering, including the current and potential value of your equity
What we offer
Top tier cash and equity compensation—we aim to be above 75th %ile for companies who have raised a similar amount of cash
Competitive medical, dental, and vision benefits
The opportunity to build a critical function from the ground up at a high-growth startup
The opportunity to learn quickly, grow fast, and be rewarded for your contributions