Senior Software Engineer - Global Forwarding Technology
Company: C.H. Robinson
Location: Remote (Remote)
Salary: $113,000 - $254,200 a year
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-09-24
About this role
C.H Robinson is seeking a Senior Software Engineer role on our Global Forwarding
team which is expanding engineering capacity to support a growing portfolio of strategic modernization and automation initiatives. In this role, you will help design and deliver scalable solutions across the Global Forwarding platform and provide technical leadership as we continue modernizing how freight is planned, priced, booked, and executed. You will partner closely with engineering product managers, business stakeholders, and other leaders to define, estimate, and design complex, strategic solutions that delight our customers. You are responsible for driving innovation through leadership, influence and discussions. In addition, the role is also responsible for impacting and continuously improving our engineering process and mentoring other engineers across the organization. If you are someone not only comfortable using modern AI development tools, but is genuinely curious about how to build reliable, production-grade automation and autonomous agents in an enterprise environment, let’s talk!
This role can be based only in MN, IL or Kansas City
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The duties and responsibilities of this position consist of, but are not limited to, the following:
- Lead the design and development of scalable software solutions that modernize and automate complex workflows across Global Forwarding
- Translate ambiguous business and customer problems into durable technical solutions spanning pricing and rating, carrier contracts, shipment planning and execution, booking, visibility, documents, and operational workflows
- Design and build AI-enabled and agentic solutions that automate repetitive knowledge work, assist with complex decision-making, and reduce manual intervention across the shipment lifecycle
- Identify opportunities to apply large language models, intelligent agents, workflow orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation, and other AI capabilities to r...