Senior Autonomous Fleet Orchestration Engineer

Autzu; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Autzu in the Bay Area is seeking a Senior Autonomous Systems Software Engineer to build the orchestration, data, and intelligence layer for autonomous fleets. You will own core hub and fleet software, working across telemetry, real-time processing, state management, scheduling, APIs, and data infrastructure to coordinate operations.

You will partner with the CTO, systems engineers, robotics engineers, and the Physical AI team to deliver scalable microservices and edge/cloud deployments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience focused on autonomous technology.
• Bachelor’s degree in CS/SE/CE or related field.
• Strong backend and distributed systems experience.
• Proficient in Python, Go, C++, Java or similar languages.
• Experience building production APIs using REST, gRPC, or similar.
• Experience with microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with message queues, event processing, or streaming systems.
• Experience with SQL and/or NoSQL databases.
• Experience building stateful production systems.
• Experience with containers and production cloud deployments.
• Strong understanding of scalability, reliability, and observability.
• Ability to work full-time on-site in the Bay Area.

Responsibilities

• Build hub and fleet orchestration software.
• Ingest telemetry from vehicles, robots, chargers, and infrastructure.
• Develop real-time state-management systems.
• Build event-processing and event-driven architectures.
• Develop scheduling, dispatch, and automated workflows.
• Build APIs connecting vehicles, hub infrastructure, and cloud services.
• Develop fault, alert, and recovery workflows.
• Build services for operational state and system coordination.
• Develop scalable microservices and distributed applications.
• Build data pipelines for analytics and operational intelligence.
• Develop systems for human supervision and intervention.
• Explore AI agents and LLM-driven operational assistance.
• Deploy software across cloud and edge environments.
• Build observability, monitoring, logging, and reliability tooling.
• Collaborate with CTO, systems engineers, robotics engineers, and AI teams.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend development

Programming languages

APIs (REST/gRPC)

Microservices

Messaging/Streaming

Databases (SQL/NoSQL)

Containers & Cloud

Observability & reliability

Production deployment

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering / Computer Engineering

Tools

Kafka

Kubernetes

CUDA/NVIDIA tools

Job description

Autzu in the Bay Area is seeking a Senior Autonomous Systems Software Engineer to build the orchestration, data, and intelligence layer for autonomous fleets. You will own core hub and fleet software, working across telemetry, real-time processing, state management, scheduling, APIs, and data infrastructure to coordinate operations.

You will partner with the CTO, systems engineers, robotics engineers, and the Physical AI team to deliver scalable microservices and edge/cloud deployments.