Cloud Telemetry & IoT Engineer for Connected Vehicles

AC Future; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

AC Future is shaping the next generation of smart travel trailers and connected products. We seek a hands-on Telemetry & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to design, develop, deploy, and maintain telemetry and cloud infrastructure powering our devices.

You will own data pipelines, device connectivity, remote diagnostics, OTA readiness, and cybersecurity across product and corporate IT ecosystems. The ideal candidate brings strong cloud and backend engineering experience in IoT, telematics, or

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field.
• 4+ years of professional experience in telematics, connected vehicles, IoT, cloud infrastructure, or a related field.
• Hands-on experience designing or supporting cloud-based connected product architectures.
• Experience with AWS services.
• Experience with MQTT, REST APIs, backend development, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with Kafka or similar messaging or streaming technologies.
• Proficiency in at least one backend programming language such as Python, Go, Java, Node.js, or TypeScript.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, infrastructure, APIs, databases, and distributed systems.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, troubleshooting, and production system support.
• Ability to troubleshoot issues across software, cloud, networking, and connected devices.
• Strong documentation, communication, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment and take ownership of projects from problem definition through implementation.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain telemetry architecture and cloud data pipelines.
• Support telemetry for vehicle and product systems including energy management and other onboard systems.
• Develop data ingestion, processing, storage, monitoring, visualization, and analytics.
• Define telemetry data structures and communication protocols.
• Develop simulation, testing, and diagnostic tools for engineering and product development.
• Improve system reliability, data quality, and scalability as the fleet grows.
• Design, deploy, and manage secure and scalable AWS-based cloud infrastructure.
• Develop backend services, APIs, and microservices.
• Build and maintain messaging using MQTT, Kafka, or similar platforms.
• Establish cloud monitoring, logging, alerting, backup, and operational practices.
• Support deployment pipelines and configuration management.
• Monitor cloud performance, security, and cost efficiency.

Skills

Cloud architectures

IoT

Backend development

AWS

Programming languages

Security basics

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

MQTT

Kafka

REST APIs

Job description

AC Future is shaping the next generation of smart travel trailers and connected products. We seek a hands-on Telemetry & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to design, develop, deploy, and maintain telemetry and cloud infrastructure powering our devices.

You will own data pipelines, device connectivity, remote diagnostics, OTA readiness, and cybersecurity across product and corporate IT ecosystems. The ideal candidate brings strong cloud and backend engineering experience in IoT, telematics, or