Forward Deployed Expert

About the role

At Trunk Tools, we’re the leading AI company revolutionizing construction, the second-largest industry on earth. We recently raised a $40M Series B led by Insight Partners, bringing our total funding to $70M from top-tier investors including Redpoint and Innovation Endeavors. This new round is fueling our next phase of growth as we scale AI agents across the jobsite.

Our mission is to build the future of construction through intelligent automation. Despite being a $13+ trillion industry, construction still runs largely on analog processes, we’re changing that by embedding AI directly into field operations.

Founded by builders and technologists (Stanford, MIT), our team has delivered software used by over 140,000 field professionals, impacting millions of users and contributing to $10B+ in built projects. Many of us come from the field ourselves, giving us a deep understanding of the industry’s unique challenges.

After years of building the “brain” of construction, we’re now launching production-ready AI agents, starting with intelligent document processing and Q&A, and rapidly expanding into core operational workflows. Our team has doubled in the past year, and with 100+ employees (50+ engineers), we’re scaling fast and entering a period of hypergrowth. This is a rare opportunity to join at an inflection point.

Position Overview

Trunk Tools is looking for Forward Deployed Experts (FDX) to drive AI adoption where it actually happens — on active jobsites. This is not a back-office role, and it is not a custom-engineering role. The FDX is a construction operator who has become deeply AI-fluent, embedded with a general contractor’s project teams to change how work gets done. You’ll be part of a deployed team that operates like a SWAT unit: driving adoption region by region, finding efficiency opportunities, and dropping into critical projects to get them back on track using the full AI stack — Trunk Tools products alongside additional cutting edge tools. You’ll consult on custom agent opportunities and partner with our product teams on them, but your job is behavioral change and adoption, not building agents. This role is field-embedded with heavy travel, up to 75%.

Key Responsibilities

- Field Adoption & Behavioral Change - Embed with project teams and superintendents to drive daily, hands-on use of Trunk Tools and the broader AI stack. - Run workshops, competitions, and side-by-side coaching that turn skeptics into everyday users. - Meet the field where it is — builder-to-builder, on the jobsite, under real-world pressure.

- Efficiency & Workflow Optimization - Identify the highest-value AI use cases for each business unit and rebuild the workflow around them. - Tie every push to a measurable outcome — time saved, cost reduced, or work won. - Capture use cases and feed them back into the shared library so other teams and accounts benefit.

- Critical-Project SWAT - Deploy into at-risk or high-priority projects and use the AI stack to get them back on track. - Diagnose where teams are stuck and stand up practical, AI-enabled workflows fast.