Staff Software Engineer, Autonomous Freight Systems

Flexport builds technology for global trade; companies use it to move more than $19B of goods across 112 countries a year. The Autonomous Freight Systems team is a brand new, AI-first engineering team in San Francisco. This team will own Flexport’s client-facing rates platform and the self-serve freight booking experience—two of the highest-leverage surfaces in our Client App that dictate how clients see pricing and book freight without manual intervention.

Key responsibilities

• Design and ship end-to-end AI agents that handle pricing intelligence and booking compliance without human oversight
• Create the tooling and secure AI infrastructure required to expose internal logistics data to LLMs safely
• Navigate the rapidly evolving landscape of agent patterns, RAG, and prompt engineering to solve problems that don’t have "Stack Overflow" answers yet
• Build and launch products rapidly and incrementally: we ship to production dozens of times per day
• Mentor and uplevel engineers across the team, fostering a culture of technical excellence
• Partner with the Engineering Manager to define the team’s technical roadmap and hiring bar

Requirements

• Experience with agent patterns, RAG, and prompt engineering
• Experience with workflow orchestration (e.g., Temporal) and building reliable systems around non-deterministic AI
• Don't wait for a spec; you find the highest-leverage automation problems and design the AI-driven solution
• Identify what is worth building, not just execute on a spec
• Demonstrated experience leading technical initiatives across multiple teams or systems
• A love of simple, well-tested code that is easy to extend and hard to break, combined with experience building large-scale distributed systems

Location and schedule

• Onsite in San Francisco, California

Salary and benefits

US base salary $196,875 to $270,703 a year. Flexport also offers benefits; the full list is on the posting.

How to apply

Apply on the company's own site.