Principal Software Engineer

Role Summary

Are you interested in building an AI operated autonomous fleet and depot operating system? Moove AV is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to serve as the founding technical owner of a brand-new, greenfield platform for autonomous mobility operations, powered by GenAI, LLMs, and real-time visual intelligence. You will start as a hands-on founding engineer, growing into long-term technical ownership and mentorship as the platform matures.

Key Responsibilities

• Design the core architecture, select the technology stack, and write the foundational production code for a new autonomous fleet & depot platform, built from scratch.
• Work closely with product, operations, and depot teams to translate ambiguous, fast-moving business requirements into resilient, production-ready systems.
• Influence product and technology strategy by helping define platform features, refine system architecture, and spearhead Agentic AI and LLM best practices.
• Build agentic APIs to deliver low latency, low cost, highly reliable, and highly scalable cloud services and device software solutions.
• Design for distributed systems fundamentals, including reliability, performance, and maintainability, from day one.
• Set engineering standards, coding practices, and technical decision-making processes for the systems you build.
• Onboard, mentor, and coach new team members as the platform scales, setting them up to contribute quickly and grow into the engineering culture you're building.

Qualifications

• Must have Bachelors in a related-field preferred (Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering)
• 10+ years of experience building cloud-native backend or platform systems
• Proven experience delivering greenfield products or internal platforms from scratch
• Hands-on experience building distributed systems on modern cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines, including AI/ML or LLM-driven components in production
• Able to translate ambiguous business requirements into production-ready systems
• Strong engineering fundamentals across 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

Nice to have

• Experience building workflow engines, orchestration systems, or DAG-based processing platforms
• Exposure to logistics, fleet, mobility, or data-intensive SaaS platforms
• Prior experience in founding engineer or early platform team roles