Senior Software Engineer

We also build our own software: a mobile app, fleet dashboard, and onboard computer system that lets customers monitor and control vehicle systems remotely. We design, fabricate, and assemble everything in-house at our facility in Corktown., We’re hiring a senior software engineer to build the software that makes a Grounded vehicle smart: our mobile app, fleet dashboard, and onboard computer system that let customers monitor and control their vehicles remotely. You’ll also help us tackle our biggest internal challenge - automating the design and manufacturing workflow so we can scale mass customization (parametric design, dynamic BOM generation, automated work instructions, and a customer-facing configurator).

It’s a broad, full-stack role at a hardware company: from onboard systems and telemetry, to the app and dashboard customers use every day, to internal tools that let a salesperson configure a vehicle without an engineer touching it.

What you’d actually do

• Build and own features across our mobile app, fleet dashboard, and onboard computer / telemetry system
• Design the data models and APIs that connect vehicles in the field to the dashboard and app
• Build internal tooling to automate design-to-manufacturing: programmatic/parametric CAD generation, dynamic BOMs, automated work instructions, and a configurator
• Work closely with mechanical and electrical engineers to turn physical systems into software (sensors, controls, monitoring)
• Own features end to end - design, build, ship, and iterate on real customer and shop-floor feedback
• Make pragmatic architecture decisions for a small team moving fast

Software Engineering, Food and Beverage Industry, Healthcare, Animal Care, HIV/AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome), OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer), Funding, Computer Systems, Vehicle Fleets, Reporting Dashboards, * 7+ years building and shipping production software, full-stack

• Strong in a modern web stack (e.g. React/TypeScript, Node, a relational database) and comfortable across frontend, backend, and APIs
• Pragmatic and product-minded; you can own ambiguous problems end to end
• Comfortable working at the hardware/software boundary - telemetry, devices, or IoT
• Startup or small-company experience strongly preferred: you ship, you own, you don’t need layers of process

Nice-to-haves

• Embedded / IoT / fleet telemetry experience
• Experience with CAD automation, parametric design, or CPQ/configurator systems
• Cloud infrastructure and data-pipeline experience

Competitive base salary + meaningful equity in Grounded + comprehensive health insurance