Senior Autonomous Systems Software Engineer

About the role

Senior Autonomous Systems Software Engineer

Bay Area, CA — Full-Time, On-Site

Build the Software Operating Layer Behind Autonomous Fleets

Autzu is building the infrastructure and operating layer needed to support autonomous transportation at scale.

Our autonomous hubs will bring together vehicles, robots, chargers, sensors, infrastructure, edge compute, and cloud software into a coordinated operating environment.

We’re looking for a Senior Autonomous Systems Software Engineer to build the orchestration, data, and intelligence layer behind that system.

This software will understand what is happening across vehicles, robots, chargers, and hub infrastructure, determine what needs to happen next, and coordinate operations automatically.

About the Role

You’ll own core elements of Autzu’s hub and fleet operating software.

You’ll work across distributed systems, telemetry, real-time event processing, state management, scheduling, dispatch, APIs, data infrastructure, automation, analytics, and operational intelligence.

This is an ideal role for a strong software engineer who wants to build complex systems from scratch and see their software directly coordinate real-world autonomous operations.

What You’ll Do

Build hub and fleet orchestration software

Ingest and manage 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 operational workflows

Build APIs connecting vehicles, robots, 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 supporting analytics, optimization, 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

Work closely with the CTO, systems engineers, robotics engineers, and Physical AI team

Minimum Qualifications

5+ years of professional software engineering experience focused on autonmous technology

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field

Strong backend and distributed systems experience

Strong programming skills in Python, Go, C++, Java, or similar languages

Experience building production APIs using REST, gRPC, or similar technologies

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

Experience taking software from design through production

Ability to work full-time on-site in the Bay Area

Strong fit for a fast-moving startup environment

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Kafka or similar streaming platforms

Experience with time-series data and high-volume telemetry

Experience with Kubernetes

Experience deploying systems across cloud and edge environments

Experience with scheduling, dispatch, fleet operations, logistics, or orchestration platforms

Experience in autonomous vehicles, robotics, mobility, or industrial automation

Experience with analytics, optimization, or operations research

Experience building LLM agents or intelligent automation

Experience with NVIDIA NIM microservices

Experience with NeMo or Triton Inference Server

Experience with CUDA, TensorRT, or NGC

Experience deploying AI workloads to Jetson or IGX

Why Join Autzu?

Build the software brain behind autonomous physical operations

Work directly with our CTO and founding autonomous systems team

Create the orchestration layer connecting vehicles, robots, chargers, infrastructure, and cloud systems

See your software directly influence real-world operations

Help launch our first autonomous hub

Own major architectural and product decisions from an early stage

Grow into Staff, Principal, or engineering leadership roles as the organization scales

If you love distributed systems and want to apply that experience to autonomous machines operating in the real world, we’d love to hear from you.