# Principal Engineer at Raft

- Company: Raft
- What the company does: Raft brings the power of AI and logistics together to help freight forwarders and customs brokers automate workflows, cut costs, and scale efficiently. Backed by Bessemer.
- Company website: https://www.raft.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Fort Hood, TX
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-01
- Apply by: 2026-10-16
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/raft/jobs/6176209004
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/raft-principal-engineer-2/

## About the role

As Principal Engineer you are Raft’s embedded technical lead at Fort Hood. You will work directly with Army customers, program offices, and partner integrators to deploy, integrate, and operationalize [R]DP, [R]AIMS, and [R]AP in their environments. You are a software engineer first. The field engineering context means your work has immediate operational impact, but between integration cycles you are writing code, building tooling, and contributing features back to the core product.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience with demonstrated ability to write, debug, and ship production code in complex enterprise or government environments
- Active Secret clearance required, U.S. citizenship required
- Hands-on production coding experience in at least one backend language such as Go, Java, or Rust, this is a development role, not just a deployment role
- Strong DevSecOps experience: CI/CD, container builds, infrastructure as code, secrets management, and applying security controls in production deployments
- Strong scripting skills in Bash and Python for automation, integration tooling, and operational playbooks
- Demonstrated ability to build runbooks and reproducible procedures that other engineers and customer administrators can follow without hand-holding

Tags: Engineering