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Staff Engineer, IOI (Internet of Industrials)

Oway· Engineering
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San Francisco$220k - $300kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Technical lead role owning the IOI protocol and node platform for industrial systems. Build and evolve the core primitives, node runtime, permission model, and command layer to enable AI agents and software to safely interact with the physical world through IOI.

Responsibilities

  • Own the protocol. Set the schema, versioning, and extension model for IOI's primitives and capability descriptors.
  • Build the node. Architect the node runtime that ingests a company's systems and telemetry and keeps its physical state current.
  • Design the permission model. Keep customer-owned nodes private by default, with fine-grained, auditable grants between nodes, agents, and hardware.
  • Build the command layer. Define how agents query state and issue actions safely, including our MCP server over IOI nodes.
  • Make it a platform. Ship the specs, SDKs, and docs that let other engineers and companies build on IOI.
  • Raise the bar. Set technical direction, review designs, and mentor the engineers who join after you.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years building production systems, with clear ownership of architecture that other teams or companies built on.
  • Designed an interface that held up as adoption grew, and can explain why it did.
  • Writes specs and docs that other engineers enjoy reading.
  • Energized by open questions and comfortable making the call.

Skills

Required:Protocol and schema designDistributed systemsJava and Spring BootAPI design (REST, gRPC, event-driven)Data modeling (MongoDB, PostgreSQL, time-series, geospatial)Security architectureCloud infrastructure & IaC (Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes)Observability (tracing, metrics, alerting)
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Oway

The First AI Infrastructure Layer for America’s Empty Truck Space

Oway is an AI-driven freight platform that turns America’s empty truck space into a new category of freight shipping. Every year 50% of U.S. truck space goes unused, a $100B+ inefficiency. Oway uses AI to automatically price, match, and sell that space in real time, giving businesses freight shipping that is dramatically faster and cheaper than traditional options. We're building the largest decentralized network of America’s empty truck space - a transparent infrastructure layer any shipper, broker, or carrier can plug into. For shippers, this means freight costs that are up to 50% lower than traditional LTL (shipments from 1 to 12 pallets), along with faster delivery windows because freight moves directly from dock to dock without the slow handoffs, warehouses, or cross-docking infrastructure that LTL depends on. For carriers, Oway’s integration can increase annual revenues by up to 30% with minimal impact on existing schedules. They simply earn more by monetizing space that would have gone unused. Our mission is to transform empty truck space into an asset that strengthens U.S. competitiveness. By lowering the cost of goods sold, we help businesses grow. By improving carrier margins, we make trucking more sustainable. And by digitizing and decentralizing freight, we are laying the foundation for a resilient, transparent logistics layer that can support America’s reindustrialization in the decades ahead. Oway makes freight shipping as simple as ridesharing - click a button, book a truck, and move goods at the true cost of available capacity.

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