engineering
Posted 2 weeks agoStaff Software Engineer, Autonomous Freight Systems
at Flexport
San Francisco, United StatesOn-site
Responsibilities
- Design and ship end-to-end AI agents that handle pricing intelligence and booking compliance without human oversight.
- Create the tooling and secure AI infrastructure required to expose internal logistics data to LLMs safely.
- Build and launch products rapidly and incrementally: we ship to production dozens of times per day.
- Mentor and uplevel engineers across the team, fostering a culture of technical excellence.
Requirements
- The Autonomous Freight Systems team is a brand new, AI-first engineering team in San Francisco.
- As a Staff Engineer, you will be the technical anchor for our next-generation AI-powered rates platform.
- We aren't just building a UI; we are building AI agents that handle real logistics work: parsing complex rate sheets, managing pricing intelligence across ocean, air, and trucking, and making "Self-Serve" a reality for thousands of shippers.
- Partner with the Engineering Manager to define the team’s technical roadmap and hiring bar. You should have LLM Fluency:
- Experience with agent patterns, RAG, and prompt engineering. You know what works in production versus what only looks good in a demo.
- Experience with workflow orchestration (e.g., Temporal) and building reliable systems around non-deterministic AI.
- Entrepreneurial Drive: You don't wait for a spec; you find the highest-leverage automation problems and design the AI-driven solution.
- You have a proven track record of building data-heavy applications where high-quality user interaction is the priority.
- experience leading technical initiatives across multiple teams or systems, specifically in building unified interfaces that aggregate data from various backend systems.
- Technical Rigor: A love of simple, well-tested code that is easy to extend and hard to break, combined with
- experience building large-scale distributed systems.
- Technical Communication: The ability to convey technical ideas in common terms to business partners, product managers, and engineers alike. It's a plus if you have •
- Experience with elements of our tech stack: Java, Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails, React, AWS. •
- Experience in logistics, supply chain, or freight technology. •
- Experience building internal tools or operator-facing applications.
- At Flexport, our ability to fulfill our mission of making global commerce easy and accessible relies on having a diverse, dedicated and engaged workforce.
Benefits
- We’re shaping the future of a $10T industry with solutions powered by innovative technology and exceptional people.
- Today, companies of all sizes—from emerging brands to Fortune 500s—use Flexport technology to move more than $19B of merchandise across 112 countries a year.
- The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire base salary for the position in the posting's respective region.
- Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location.
- Within the range displayed, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and / or training.
- Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at Flexport, which also includes bonus, equity, and comprehensive benefit offerings such as medical, dental, and flexible time off.
- The US base salary range for this position (this does not include bonus, equity and benefits): $196,875 — $246,094 USD Commitment to Equal Opportunity
Additional details
- At Flexport, we believe global trade can move the human race forward.
- That’s why it’s our mission to make global commerce so easy there will be more of it.
- The recent global supply chain crisis has put Flexport center stage as we continue to play a pivotal role in how goods move around the world.
- We are proud to have the support of the best investors in the game who believe in our mission, solutions and people.
- Ready to tackle global challenges that impact business, society, and the environment? Come join us.
- You will build the intelligence layer that allows clients to commit freight on technology alone, with no account executive and no operations touch.
- This is a ground-floor opportunity to shape technical direction, set up a new codebase, and build the platform that moves Flexport from an assisted-sales model to a tech-run one for the long tail of our client base.
- You will partner with Pricing, Sales, Ops, and Design on hard domain problems and ship to the most-used client surfaces at the company. You will
- Navigate the rapidly evolving landscape of agent patterns, RAG, and prompt engineering to solve problems that don’t have "Stack Overflow" answers yet.
- Product Instincts: You can identify what is worth building, not just execute on a spec.