> AI agents: this is one page of Nextmove’s FDE site, in Markdown. Nextmove is a job board and free career service for forward deployed engineers (FDEs). Each posting is classified from its text, not its title: the kind of work, how much of it is production code, pre-sales weight, time at customer sites, travel, remote arrangement, level and posted base pay. The site also publishes the aggregates: median pay by level, metro, company and kind of work, and which companies started hiring FDEs each week. Every page under https://nextmove.md/fde is served this way; the index of pages is https://nextmove.md/llms.txt. # Senior Software Engineer, Fleet Mission Control Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/ed8abc8a729d8416 Bot Auto posts a senior FDE role to build for teams inside the company in Houston, TX with no pay posted. Architect and build core operation platforms: scheduler, dispatcher, vehicle console, ATC, and TMS Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Bot Auto](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/bot-auto) Posted Jun 4, 2026 by Bot Auto · open on Greenhouse as of Nov 8, 2026 Pay not posted Houston, TX +1 Full-time Architect and build core operation platforms: scheduler, dispatcher, vehicle console, ATC, and TMS - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2Fed8abc8a729d8416&placement=top) - [View posting at Bot Auto](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/botauto/jobs/5248909008) Free. Upload your resume once, see why each FDE role fits, and get introduced only when you say so. ## At a glance ### Posted base pay Not posted Senior FDE postings, 1,864 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K. ### The work Builds for teams inside the company Balance **Mostly building** Project stages 1. Pre-sales (not covered) 2. Proof of concept (not covered) 3. Implementation 4. Operations - **Coding**: Writes production code - **Builds for**: Internal teams - **Level**: Senior - **Role**: Technical lead ### What they ask for Experience - **5+ years** software engineering experience building backend services and/or full-stack applications in production Background - **Software engineering** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting asks for 5+ years. How many do you have? The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now? The job is in Houston, TX. Could you work there? Which of these have you used in production? Answer each one. Nothing is saved or sent. [What postings ask for, by background →](https://nextmove.md/fde/paths) ## Conditions - **Location**: Houston, TX · San Francisco Bay Area, California - **Employment type**: Full-time ## More like this [Crowe](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/crowe) ### [AI Technical Lead](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/09376e25483dddb4) Chicago, IL · Washington, DC · +35 more Hybrid 2w ago $102,400–$204,100 [Vitol](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/vitol) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/56f6ec9bb0533d32) Houston, TX On-site 2mo ago Pay not posted [T-Mobile](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/t-mobile) ### [Sr Forward Deployment Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/fe873f43dfb0ff9d) Bellevue, WA · Frisco, TX 2w ago $142,300–$256,700 ## The job description from Bot Auto Posted by Bot Auto on Jun 4, 2026 ### Company Introduction At Bot Auto, we are revolutionizing the transportation of goods with our cutting-edge autonomous trucks, enhancing the quality of life for communities around the globe. With the agility of a start-up and the wisdom of seasoned experts, Bot Auto boasts a team that has achieved numerous world-firsts and unparalleled innovations. United by a shared vision, we create miracles and propel the future of transportation. Join us and transform your dreams into reality. We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated **Senior Software Engineer, Operation Platforms** to architect and build the platforms that run Bot Auto's autonomous trucking operations. Our Operation Platforms builds the intelligence and automation behind fleet scheduling, fleet management, fleet maintenance, mission control, remote assistance, IoT platform, business intelligence, and operational efficiency. Together, these platforms form a cyber-physical operating system that turns commercial freight into executable, monitored, and reconciled work. In this role, you will design the core object models, state machines, and services that coordinate Loads, Legs, Missions, and Trips across digital and physical domains, with clear authority boundaries, deterministic foundations, and room for agentic automation on top. As a hands-on technical leader, you will build operator-facing tools and backend services that move our fleet safely and efficiently in real-world commercial operations. ### Key Responsibilities - Architect and build the core operation platforms — scheduler, dispatcher, vehicle console, ATC, and TMS — and the services that coordinate them. - Design durable object models, state machines, and lifecycle logic for the system's core entities (Load, Leg, Mission, Trip) and the structured events that connect them (e.g., execution impact events, mission closeout packages). - Establish clear authority boundaries between applications (a source-of-authority model), keeping the deterministic core reliable, traceable, and auditable while enabling probabilistic, agent-assisted automation on top. - Build real-time operator tooling and role-based views for dispatchers, remote assistants, technicians, and fleet managers — covering monitoring, mission control, exception handling, and remote assistance. - Develop backend services, APIs, and event-driven integrations that connect digital planning with the physical fleet, including the vehicle console at the edge. - Ensure safety-relevant workflows (e.g., launch authorization and dual-clearance, recovery and physical-takeover handoff) are correct, observable, and resilient. - Partner with autonomy, operations, product, and physical-layer teams to translate real operational workflows into dependable software. - Drive engineering excellence through system design, code quality, testing, observability, and mentorship. ### Required Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience - 5+ years of software engineering experience building backend services and/or full-stack applications in production - Strong software development skills in one or more languages: Python, Go, Java, or JavaScript/TypeScript - Experience designing distributed systems, data models, state machines, or workflow/lifecycle-driven applications - Solid understanding of APIs, databases, and event-driven architectures ### Preferred Qualifications - Experience with operations-critical, mission-control, logistics, fleet management, TMS, dispatch/scheduling, or marketplace systems - Experience building real-time systems and operator-facing tools (live dashboards, command-and-control) - Familiarity with event-driven and streaming platforms (NATS, Kafka, MQTT, etc.) and modern frontend frameworks (React, TypeScript) - Experience with cloud platforms (AWS), containerization (Docker), and Kubernetes - Exposure to LLM/agentic automation and human-in-the-loop systems - Interest in autonomous systems, robotics, or cyber-physical systems - Strong product sense and the ability to collaborate closely with operations teams [View posting at Bot Auto](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/botauto/jobs/5248909008) ## About Bot Auto Operates Level 4 autonomous trucks as a carrier, selling TaaS freight capacity to shippers and brokers on Texas corridors. 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