Senior Software Engineer - AI-Driven Logistics Planning

C.H. Robinson; Illinois; On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Spending Accounts

Health Savings Account (includingem)

Dental and Vision

Life Insurance

Short-Term and Long-Term Disability

Paid observed holidays

2 paid floating holidays for U.S. hour

Flexible Time Off (FTO)

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Robinson is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Plan/Optimizer team within Technology. You will build cloud-native platforms and services for intelligent freight planning, balancing cost, service, utilization, and constraints at scale.

We look for engineers who enjoy tackling distributed systems, optimization, and AI in logistics, and who will collaborate with Product Managers, Data Scientists, and business stakeholders to translate customer needs into scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• 6+ years designing and implementing large-scale software products or distributed systems.
• Experience with modern development languages and frameworks (e.g., .NET Core, C#).
• Experience with cloud-native applications/services (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases (SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB, Cosmos DB, Elasticsearch).
• Experience with streaming platforms and integration technologies (Kafka, Event Hubs, ESB).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated deployment practices, and modern DevOps principles.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the technical roadmap and architectural direction of optimization, planning, and workflow orchestration services.
• Design, develop, and operate resilient, scalable, cloud-native services that support planning capabilities.
• Build platforms that evaluate constraints, costs, service levels, capacity, and customer objectives to generate actionable shipment plans.
• Develop APIs, event-driven services, and workflow orchestration to integrate planning solutions across the enterprise.
• Partner with Product Managers, Data Scientists, Architects, and stakeholders to translate needs into scalable solutions.
• Design systems balancing configurability, maintainability, and performance for diverse customer scenarios.

Skills

6+ years experience

.NET Core, C#

Cloud-native apps

Azure, AWS, GCP

Databases (SQL/NoSQL)

Kafka / Event Hubs / ESB

CI/CD / DevOps

Education

Bachelor's Degree in CS, SE, MIS or 4 years exp

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

SQL Server

Oracle

MongoDB

Cosmos DB

Elasticsearch

Kafka

Job description

Robinson is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Plan/Optimizer team within Technology. You will build cloud-native platforms and services for intelligent freight planning, balancing cost, service, utilization, and constraints at scale.

We look for engineers who enjoy tackling distributed systems, optimization, and AI in logistics, and who will collaborate with Product Managers, Data Scientists, and business stakeholders to translate customer needs into scalable solutions.