Flexport
Staff Software Engineer, Autonomous Freight Systems
$197K–$271K
San Francisco, California, United States · Staff · Full-time · Posted Apr 24, 2026
About the job
Build and lead Flexport’s AI-powered rates and self-serve freight booking platform, including agents that automate pricing intelligence and booking compliance.
What you'll do
- Design and ship AI agents for pricing intelligence and booking compliance without human oversight.
- Build secure AI infrastructure and tooling to expose internal logistics data to LLMs.
- Guide technical direction, mentor engineers, and partner on the team roadmap.
What they ask for
- Experience with agent patterns, RAG, and prompt engineering.
- Experience with workflow orchestration and reliable systems around non-deterministic AI.
- Demonstrated technical leadership across teams or systems, including unified interfaces aggregating backend data.
- Experience building large-scale distributed systems and data-heavy applications with high-quality user interaction.
Nice to have
- Experience with Java, Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails, React, or AWS.
- Experience in logistics, supply chain, freight technology, or internal/operator-facing tools.
Pay
$196,875 — $270,703 USD (base salary)
Tools
LLM, Temporal, Java, Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails, React, AWS
AI focus
Build AI agents for pricing intelligence and booking compliance; create secure infrastructure for LLM access to internal logistics data; apply agent patterns, RAG, and prompt engineering.
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