5 months ago
Houston, TX, USA or San Francisco, CA, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Architect and build operation platforms including the scheduler, dispatcher, vehicle console, ATC, and TMS.
- Design durable object models, state machines, lifecycle logic, and structured events for Loads, Legs, Missions, and Trips.
- Establish source-of-authority boundaries between applications while maintaining a deterministic, traceable, and auditable core.
- Build real-time, role-based operator tools for dispatchers, remote assistants, technicians, and fleet managers.
- Develop backend services, APIs, and event-driven integrations connecting digital planning with the physical fleet and edge vehicle console.
- Ensure safety-relevant workflows such as launch authorization, dual clearance, recovery, and physical-takeover handoff are correct, observable, and resilient.
- Collaborate with autonomy, operations, product, and physical-layer teams to translate operational workflows into dependable software.
- Drive system design, code quality, testing, observability, and mentorship.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- At least 5 years of software engineering experience building backend services and/or full-stack applications in production.
- Strong software development skills in one or more of Python, Go, Java, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Experience designing distributed systems, data models, state machines, or workflow/lifecycle-driven applications.
- Solid understanding of APIs, databases, and event-driven architectures.
- Experience with operations-critical, mission-control, logistics, fleet management, TMS, dispatch/scheduling, or marketplace systems is preferred.
- Experience building real-time systems and operator-facing tools such as live dashboards and command-and-control interfaces is preferred.
- Familiarity with event-driven and streaming platforms such as NATS, Kafka, or MQTT and modern frontend frameworks such as React and TypeScript is preferred.
- Experience with AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes is preferred.
- Exposure to LLM/agentic automation and human-in-the-loop systems is preferred.
- Interest in autonomous systems, robotics, or cyber-physical systems is preferred.
- Strong product sense and close collaboration with operations teams are preferred.
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About Bot Auto
Bot Auto develops and operates Level 4 autonomous trucks, selling freight capacity as Transportation-as-a-Service to shippers rather than licensing technology. The Houston-based, privately held company (founded 2023) owns the trucks and runs end-to-end operations, pairing fleet operators with autonomy engineers to deploy long-haul routes. Its platform spans autonomy software, vehicle controls, sensors, compute, and fleet operations with a documented safety case for commercial freight service.