Software Engineer III

C.H Robinson is seeking a Software Engineer III on our Bots & Quoting Automation team where you will support customer quoting automation including API integrations, web scraping, and email automation for thousands of customers. The primary focus will be on selecting optimal solutions, implementing them, and monitoring. The team continues to lean into LLM powered solutions for customization and generalized solutions and you will work directly on applying these new tools to help build out a workforce that combines traditional software, AI/ML powered software, AI agents, and humans to efficiently handle the fractured and varied logistics processes for all of our customers.

This role can be based only in Minnesota, Chicago or Kansas City.

• Partner with product managers and principal software engineers to translate requirements into detailed designs.
• Partner with data scientists and data analysts to drive performance improvements for our applications.
• Proactively troubleshoot applications and identify performance and availability issues, providing effective options for resolution.
• Tune performance and resolve availability issues of product or service and its dependencies.
• Increase code quality through writing unit, integration, and acceptance tests.
• Collaborate with other software engineers and teams on code reviews, development infrastructure, and process enhancements.
• Grow, push the boundaries and learn new things to apply to our team's work.
• Write clean, maintainable Python and JS code.
• Participate in AGILE/SCRUM process.
• Work directly on a product suite that drives revenue and cost-savings to the company bottom line.

• 5+ years of experience collaborating in a team environment shipping software (Python).
• Experience with automation and/or human computer-interaction (HCI) principles & design.
• AI Native Programming – you both make use of tools like copilot and think about when to integrate LLMs into systems.
• Proficient creating applications and features in object-oriented and functional programming environments.
• Working experience with database objects in relational databases (ex. MS SQL, Oracle, Postgres) and non-relational databases (ex. MongoDB).
• Proficient with GIT for version control.
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience and a high school diploma/GED.

• Exposure developing containerized applications (Docker).
• Front-End (React) development/design.
• Exposure to statistics and machine learning concepts.
• Experience building Agentic AI systems that interact with humans.
• Web Scraping Experience (ex. Selenium, Playwright).
• You value Systems Thinking: how do different parts of the system interact with each other, queues, software components, agents, etc.
• Experience with monitoring tools (ex. Data Dog, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Have a growth mindset that is open to giving and receiving feedback.
• Able to thrive in a collaborative, creative, dynamic workplace.

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Equal Opportunity: C.H Robinson is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to a workplace and performance culture that reflects the strengths of our worldwide marketplace. We value unique experiences and diverse backgrounds of our people within our company, our business relationships, and our communities. We’re committed to providing an inclusive environment, free from harassment and discrimination, where all employees feel welcomed, valued and respected.