Lead Founding Engineer — Autonomous Fleet Platform

Moove Vehicle Limited; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Moove AV is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the creation of a brand-new, greenfield platform for autonomous mobility operations, powered by GenAI, LLMs, and real-time visual intelligence. You will begin as a hands-on founding engineer and grow into long-term technical ownership and mentoring as the platform matures.

You will design core architecture, choose the stack, and write foundational production code for an autonomous fleet and depot system, while guiding the team through

Qualifications

• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field.
• 10+ years building cloud-native backend or platform systems.
• Proven track record delivering greenfield products or internal platforms from scratch.
• Hands-on experience with distributed systems on modern cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines, including AI/ML or LLM-driven components in production.
• Ability to translate ambiguous business requirements into production-ready systems.
• Strong fundamentals in system design, performance, reliability, and maintainability.
• Comfort operating in high-ownership, low-process, early-stage environments.
• Must reside in and be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Design the core architecture, select the technology stack, and write foundational production code for a new autonomous fleet and depot platform.
• Collaborate with product, operations, and depot teams to translate ambiguous requirements into resilient systems.
• Influence product and tech strategy by defining platform features and best practices.
• Build agentic APIs to deliver low-latency, cost-efficient cloud services and device software.
• Design for distributed systems with reliability, performance, and maintainability from day one.
• Set engineering standards, coding practices, and decision-making processes.
• Onboard, mentor, and coach new team members as the platform scales.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud-native backend

Greenfield platform

LLM/AI integration

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS / cloud platforms

Deployment pipelines

Job description

Moove AV is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the creation of a brand-new, greenfield platform for autonomous mobility operations, powered by GenAI, LLMs, and real-time visual intelligence. You will begin as a hands-on founding engineer and grow into long-term technical ownership and mentoring as the platform matures.

You will design core architecture, choose the stack, and write foundational production code for an autonomous fleet and depot system, while guiding the team through