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We’re reinventing how supply chain infrastructure works in America with carrier agnostic truck terminals. As a vertically integrated real estate, operations, and technology company, we acquire and operate mission-critical real estate across the country to serve the largest logistics providers in the world. Backed by $1B from Greenpoint Partners, we’re scaling and building the most valuable logistics network in the country.\nWe thrive on accountability, integrity, and a shared drive to raise the bar. If you’re excited to reshape the industry alongside a high-performance team with a championship mindset that executes relentlessly, welcome aboard.\nRole Summary:\nWe are seeking a Systems Engineer to keep the physical systems behind our platform running in the field - kiosks, edge compute, networking, power, cameras, and access control - and to make each new site launch faster and more repeatable than the last. Our site footprint is growing quickly, and when our system goes down, trucks stop moving and a customer’s yard stops running. This is a hands-on role: you will own uptime across the deployed fleet, troubleshoot hardware in the yard, run acceptance testing with our manufacturers and at new sites, integrate our access-control platform with customer security systems, and build the tooling and documentation that let a kiosk go from crate to live without a specialist on site. This position reports to Michael Sewell, Senior System Engineer.\nLocation: Austin, TX (preferred) | Open to candidates in the Central or Eastern time zones\nThis role is ideally based in our Austin office, where we value in-person collaboration. However, we're open to considering candidates based in the Central or Eastern time zones who are a strong fit for the role.\nOur stack: Ubuntu · NVIDIA Jetson · Industrial PCs and Edge Compute · Tailscale · Teltonika · Hanwha Cameras · Mercury Access Control\nKey Responsibilities:\nMonitor site uptime and health across the kiosk fleet, and drive the patterns behind repeat failures to zero;\n\nTroubleshoot hardware in the yard - edge compute, cameras, ID readers, displays, networking, power, enclosure - remotely where possible and on-site when it isn’t;\n\nContribute to the next kiosk hardware revisions: component and layout changes, downstream impact on enclosure and access-control hardware, and power resilience including UPS sizing and failover;\n\nOwn factory acceptance testing with our hardware manufacturers and site acceptance testing for new site launches;\n\nDeliver site-specific solutions, including integrating our access-control platform with customer-operated security and video management systems;\n\nBuild configuration utilities and automation so a kiosk goes from crate to live without a specialist, and maintain the kiosk documentation - interconnect, network, power, accessories - plus on-call runbooks; 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