Drimva

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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First seen Oct 29, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)