Autonomous Vehicle Cloud & IoT Platform Engineer

Textron Specialized Vehicles; Augusta (GA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Textron Specialized Vehicles is seeking an experienced engineer to own the cloud and IoT backbone for its autonomous vehicle systems. You will design edge-to-cloud data architectures, build data pipelines for telemetry, and deploy ML machinery including SageMaker pipelines and model registries.

The role requires strong CI/CD practices, Terraform, and expertise in distributed systems. Remote-friendly with travel for deployments and customer rollouts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Software/Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field required.
• 2+ years of relevant experience required.
• Proficiency in Python and C++ or similar languages.

Responsibilities

• Own the cloud and IoT backbone of the vehicle’s autonomous system, ensuring it is scalable, cost-efficient, and production ready.
• Design reliable edge-to-cloud data architectures supporting autonomous system development and fleet operations.
• Build data pipelines for Kinesis, S3, Lambda for telemetry ingestion.
• Deploy and manage ML infrastructure: SageMaker pipelines, model registry, retraining workflows.
• Implement CI/CD and infrastructure as code (Terraform). Enable reliable data flow from vehicle to cloud to training pipeline to OTA deployment.
• Develop fleet-management tools supporting remote diagnostics, telemetry, health monitoring, and fleet analytics.
• Establish data governance, retention, and security policies for connected vehicle systems.
• Support implementation of cybersecurity controls for connected vehicle and OTA infrastructure.
• Ensure ML training and deployment pipelines operate efficiently and at scale.
• Deploy OTA updates securely and reliably to vehicles and monitor system health, logging, and observability.

Skills

Real-time data pipelines

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

CI/CD

Terraform

Debugging

System reliability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Software/Computer Engineering or IT

Tools

Python

C++

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS IoT Greengrass

AWS IoT Core

SageMaker

S3

Kinesis

Lambda

Job description

Textron Specialized Vehicles is seeking an experienced engineer to own the cloud and IoT backbone for its autonomous vehicle systems. You will design edge-to-cloud data architectures, build data pipelines for telemetry, and deploy ML machinery including SageMaker pipelines and model registries.

The role requires strong CI/CD practices, Terraform, and expertise in distributed systems. Remote-friendly with travel for deployments and customer rollouts.