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About AC Future

AC Future is developing next-generation smart travel trailers and mobile living products that integrate connected vehicle technology, cloud services, energy management, smart-home functionality, and AI-powered experiences.

We are building an integrated technology ecosystem connecting vehicles, embedded systems, cloud infrastructure, mobile applications, and intelligent services to deliver a seamless and secure user experience.

Position Summary

AC Future is seeking a hands-on Telemetry & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to design, develop, deploy, and maintain the telemetry and cloud infrastructure powering our connected vehicles and products.

This role will focus primarily on vehicle telemetry, cloud infrastructure, backend services, device connectivity, remote diagnostics, data pipelines, and OTA capabilities.

The ideal candidate combines strong cloud and backend engineering capabilities with practical experience in telematics, connected vehicles, automotive systems, IoT, or other complex connected products. Direct experience working with vehicle data, vehicle communication protocols, or connected vehicle platforms is highly valued.

This individual should be comfortable working across cloud, software, embedded, and vehicle engineering environments and taking projects from architecture and requirements through implementation, deployment, and production support.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable telemetry architecture and cloud data pipelines for AC Future's connected vehicles and products.
• Support telemetry for onboard systems including battery, energy management, power electronics, HVAC, water, leveling, expansion systems, and other vehicle systems.
• Develop reliable solutions for vehicle data ingestion, processing, storage, monitoring, visualization, and analytics.
• Define telemetry data structures, communication protocols, data models, and data management strategies.
• Integrate data generated by embedded controllers, sensors, vehicle networks, and other onboard systems into cloud-based telemetry platforms.
• Develop simulation, testing, diagnostic, and data analysis tools to support engineering and product development.
• Improve telemetry reliability, data quality, latency, performance, and scalability as the connected vehicle fleet grows.
• Support real-time and historical vehicle data analysis for engineering, diagnostics, product development, and fleet operations.

• Design, deploy, and manage scalable AWS-based cloud infrastructure supporting AC Future's connected vehicles and applications.
• Develop backend services, APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures supporting

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
• 4+ years of professional experience in telematics, connected vehicles, IoT, connected products, cloud infrastructure, backend systems, or a closely related field.
• Hands-on experience designing or supporting cloud-based connected product architectures.
• Experience with AWS services and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with MQTT, REST APIs, backend development, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with Kafka or similar messaging or streaming technologies.
• Proficiency in at least one backend programming language such as Python, Go, Java, Node.js, or TypeScript.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, infrastructure, APIs, databases, and distributed systems.
• Understanding of cloud and application security, including IAM, API security, authentication, encryption, certificates, and TLS.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, troubleshooting, and production system support.
• Ability to troubleshoot issues across software, cloud, networking, and connected devices.
• Strong documentation, communication, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment and take ownership of projects from problem definition through implementation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with connected vehicles, EVs, RVs, automotive systems, mobility products, robotics, industrial IoT, or other complex connected products.
• Experience with AWS IoT or similar IoT cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with CAN, CAN FD, J1939, UDS, vehicle diagnostics, or related automotive communication technologies.
• Experience designing or operating OTA software or firmware update platforms.
• Knowledge of ISO 21434 automotive cybersecurity concepts.
• Experience with PKI, certificate lifecycle management, secure device identity, or device provisioning.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and DevOps tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Docker, Kubernetes, or CI/CD platforms.
• Experience with endpoint management, MDM, EDR, identity management, or corporate IT security platforms.
• Familiarity with Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Entra ID/Azure AD, or similar enterprise identity and productivity environments.
• Experience implementing role-based access control and secure file/data access policies.
• Experience supporting IT infrastructure and cybersecurity in a startup or growing technology company.
• Experience working with geographically distributed or international engineering teams.