Optimus · 3 weeks ago
Head of Engineering
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area
Full-time
Onsite
Director/ExecutiveOptimus is seeking a founding engineering leader to build cutting-edge AI systems and data infrastructure for intelligent freight insights. The role involves architecting machine learning pipelines and predictive models while managing a scalable platform for freight broker customers.
Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
Responsibilities
Architect next-generation AI systems with advanced predictive models for shipper behavior, intelligent targeting, and automated deal scoring
Process millions of shipment records across 500K+ companies at scale
Serve 20,000+ potential freight broker customers with a scalable platform
Build integrations with major TMS systems and strategic partners
Ability to recruit and close awesome engineers on Day 1
Proven track record of attracting top-tier technical talent in competitive markets
Experience building and mentoring high-performing, distributed engineering teams
Strong personal network of engineers to tap into immediately
Experience managing engineering budgets and resource allocation
Qualification
Required
Architect next-generation AI systems with advanced predictive models for shipper behavior, intelligent targeting, and automated deal scoring
Process millions of shipment records across 500K+ companies at scale
Serve 20,000+ potential freight broker customers with a scalable platform
Build integrations with major TMS systems and strategic partners
Product & Startup Mindset
Comfort with ambiguity; builds MVPs quickly
Strong product intuition — able to turn data and ideas into customer-facing insights
Experience in early-stage startups ready for scale
Pragmatic, fast, iterative, and relentlessly resourceful
Curious and has the ability to learn on the job to use the right tool for the job
Can design and build APIs
Can build UI and application including dashboards and actionable features
Experience with Python or MVC frameworks
Understands distributed systems, event-driven workflows, caching, and logging
Strong with SQL, Postgres
Ability to design and build data pipelines for messy real-world data
Geospatial/Location Tracking data processing
Hands-on experience building LLM-powered workflows (agents, multi-step reasoning, tool use)
Strong with prompt engineering, structured outputs (JSON), fallbacks, guardrails
Has built ML systems in production (evaluation sets, drift detection, retraining)
Ability to recruit and close awesome engineers on Day 1
Proven track record of attracting top-tier technical talent in competitive markets
Experience building and mentoring high-performing, distributed engineering teams
Strong personal network of engineers to tap into immediately
Experience managing engineering budgets and resource allocation
Company
Optimus
Unlike generic sales tools, Optimus provides shipper-specific data including lanes, volumes, commodities, and key contacts—giving you the edge to close more deals.
Founded in 2025
2-10 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
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