Senior Software Engineer

About TruckSmarter

Trucking powers the American economy moving 71% of the nations freight and representing nearly $900 billion in annual spend. Yet despite its scale the industry still runs on fragmented systems phone calls emails tribal knowledge and manual coordination. TruckSmarter is changing that starting with the people at the center of it all: truck drivers and small carriers.

Were a team of fewer than 25 building Dispatch an AI-powered operating layer for freight. Think Claude Code for trucking. Dispatch helps carriers navigate a constantly changing freight market reason through complex tradeoffs and execute operational workflows on their behalf.
The product is live drivers are using it and were now focused on making Dispatch dramatically smarter and more capable.

The Role

Were looking for senior software engineers to help us realize TruckSmarters vision of eliminating inefficiencies across the freight industry. Youll be at the forefront of building text- and voice-based AI agents that can drive external communication perform reasoning execute actions and continuously self-improve.

As a senior engineer youll play a critical role not only in building systems but also in shaping our technical and product strategy. Youll mentor peers influence architectural decisions and help us define what best-in-class AI-driven logistics software looks like.

What Youll Do

• Partner closely with product design and leadership to define and evolve the architecture for agentic AI systems that scale across multiple product surfaces.

• Own the design and delivery of complex features end-to-end balancing tradeoffs between velocity scalability and long-term maintainability.

• Lead technical discussions and architectural reviews ensuring our systems remain robust extensible and secure.

• Guide the integration of GenAI agents with traditional ML systems (classification recommendation optimization) to create hybrid intelligent workflows.

• Establish engineering best practices around testing observability deployment and performance monitoring for AI-driven features.

• Proactively identify product and infrastructure bottlenecks propose innovative solutions and drive them to completion.

• Mentor and coach other engineers raising the technical bar of the team.

• Stay ahead of emerging AI frameworks and technologies evaluating and introducing them when they create real product advantage.

What Were Looking For

• 5 years of industry experience including leading projects end-to-end.

• Demonstrated ability to design build and ship complex production-grade systems.

• Extremely curious about LLMs and Agentic AI architectures.

• Experience in fast-paced startup environments where youve had to wear multiple hats.

• A track record of mentoring engineers and shaping team practices.

• Bachelors degree in a relevant field (or equivalent practical experience).

Working Model

We work in-person 5 days a week at our downtown San Francisco office. We believe the best products get built when people are in the same room. Fast feedback loops real collaboration and a team that genuinely enjoys working together. If thats how you do your best work youll fit right in.

We Offer

• Full health dental and vision coverage

• Daily catered lunch provided in-office plus dinner covered for anyone working past 6:00pm

• Commuter benefits

• Flexible PTO

• 401k

• Commuter benefits

Wed love for you to join us on this journey and are excited to review your application!

Required Experience:

Senior IC