2026 New Grad | SWE, Full-Stack (Chicago) in Chicago, Illinois at Loop

About Loop

Loop is industrializing services through AI, starting with one of the world's most complex industries: the global supply chain. We're an AI-native company built to solve the systemic data problem that's held logistics back for decades. Our Logistics Data Platform turns fragmented, unstructured data into a trusted foundation that fuels automation, financial clarity, and decision intelligence at scale. Today, Loop serves >20% of the Fortune 100, manages over $30B in supply chain spend, and helps its clients save hundreds of millions of dollars each year.

We recently closed a $95M Series C and are backed by leading investors including Valor Equity Partners, Founders Fund, 8VC, Index Ventures, J.P. Morgan, and more than 50 industry-leading angel investors.

Our team brings deep expertise from Uber, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Flexport, C3 AI, VMware, Box, UPS, and C.H. Robinson and we're looking for builders who want to help shape what comes next.

About the New Grad Program

Most AI stays in the browser. Ours moves atoms. You aren't just building features; you are building the autonomous brain for the Fortune 100’s global supply chain.

This program is designed to compress 3 years of learning into 1 year by throwing you into the deep end of production AI systems on Day 1. Instead of sandboxed projects, you get to solve real problems and impact customers directly. This program demands intense investment, but by the end, you will perform as a strong entry-level engineer jumpstarting your career.

The Schedule:

• Week 1 (Onboarding): Deep dive into tools and domain. You will ship code to production on Day 1 and fully grasp our dev loop by Friday.
• Months 1-3 (Velocity): You will deliver 3 entry-level projects with increasing ambiguity. By the end of Month 3, you are expected to operate as a fully independent engineer.
• Months 4-9 (The Rotation): You will rotate onto a different high-impact team to expand your surface area. Tracks include:
• • Platform: AI infrastructure and Engineering Systems.
  • Core Product: Audit, Billing, and Payments logic.
  • Commercial: Revenue Activation and Forward Deployed Engineering.
  • Special Projects: Partnering directly with the CEO/CTO and other execs
• Month 9+ (Graduation): You should demonstrate Mid-Level Engineer performance and will be considered for immediate promotion.

About You

We're not just looking for strong academic performers. We're looking for people who are genuinely driven to build things and go deep on hard problems. If the following resonates, you belong here:

• You go above and beyond. You have a repo, a side hustle, or a project you built just because you are curious. You’re self-directed and don't need an assignment to start coding.
• You have a bias towards action. You prefer to ship, break, fix, and apologize rather than wait for a committee decision.
• You are drawn to hard problems. You want problems that are more than one prompt away from a solution.
• You get absorbed in mastering your craft. Whether it’s climbing the Esports ladder, acing a math competition, winning a hackathon, or debugging a complex issue, you know what it feels like to lose track of time working on something you care about.

Responsibilities

• Ship critical infrastructure. Manage real-world logistics and financial data for the largest enterprise in the world..
• Own the why. Build deep context through customer calls, and understand the Loop’s value to our customers. You push back on requirements if you see a better, faster way to solve the customer’s problem.
• Full-stack proficiency. Work across system boundaries, from frontend UX to LLM agents, database schema and event infrastructures.
• Leverage AI tools to handle the 90% boilerplate, so you can focus the highest leverage 10%: quality, architecture, product taste.
• Raise the velocity bar. You will constantly optimize our dev loops, refactor legacy patterns, automate your own workflows and fix broken processes.

Qualifications

• Graduating with a BS or higher in STEM fields; available to start full-time in 2026.
• Excited to engage onsite in our Chicago office 4+ days per week.
• Proficiency with modern techstack. You can deliver a modern web app in hours not in days..
• Unblocking yourself. You thrive in ambiguity. Despite the chaos, you deliver high quality products and business impact.
• AI Literate. You have strong intuition on how LLM works: where they excel and where they generate slop. You live and breathe AI native tools (Cursor, Codex, Claude Code etc.)

Compensation and Benefits

The base pay for this role is $130,000 annually. This reflects the base pay that Loop reasonably expects to pay for the position at the time of hire. Actual compensation will depend on job-related factors, including experience, skills, qualifications, location, and business needs.

In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for equity. This role is also eligible for Loop's benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) match, paid time off, paid holidays, and parental leave.

Visa Sponsorship

Loop may provide employment visa sponsorship for this role. Green card sponsorship may also be available based on business needs and eligibility requirements.

Equal Opportunity

Loop is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.