Optimus
Staff / Principal Software Engineer
Onsite, Austin, TX · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
About the job
Build and lead production software for AI-powered freight revenue intelligence and operations, from logistics data foundations and integrations to recommendations and reliable AI workflows.
What you'll do
- Develop recommendation, freight-matching, and operational decision systems, and connect them to measurable customer outcomes.
- Build production AI workflows and dependable logistics data pipelines and integrations.
- Guide architecture and engineering practices, ship production code, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- Demonstrated ownership of significant systems or initiatives at Staff or Principal scope.
- High proficiency in Python, Ruby, or TypeScript, with backend, API, distributed-systems, and failure-handling expertise.
- Strong SQL and PostgreSQL skills, including schema design, indexing, performance, migrations, and data integrity.
- Shipped AI or data-driven products, with experience evaluating quality and handling uncertainty.
Nice to have
- Experience with freight brokerage, carrier operations, dispatch, transportation management systems, or geospatial data.
- Experience with recommendation systems or platform modernization.
Tools
Python, Ruby on Rails, TypeScript/Node.js, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, Docker
AI focus
Build and evaluate production AI agents and assistants that research opportunities, retrieve evidence, recommend actions, draft outreach, and execute authorized actions; develop recommendations, ranking, and related data-driven systems.
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