Senior Software Engineer
Grounded RV
Detroit, MI, US
Onsite
2026-06-27
Estimated salary · Detroit
~ $113,500 - $186,000
Low
$81K
Median
$113K
High
$145K
Market in Detroit · BLS OEWS 2025
Estimated net pay
$7,009 - $10,903
/month · 26% withheld
after tax & contributions · on the estimated salary · Single, no dependents
Job description
**Senior Software Engineer — Grounded**
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Detroit, MI (in\-person)
### **About Grounded**
Grounded is a 25\-person Detroit\-based startup building modular electric platforms for specialty vehicles. We take cab chassis from OEMs like Ford and Harbinger and build configurable vehicle systems on top, serving mobile healthcare, RVs, command centers, food and beverage, pet care, and more. Our customers include Colgate, Nokia, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, and Portland PD. We've raised \~$5M in VC funding and are shipping vehicles in market today.
We also build our own software: a mobile app, fleet dashboard, and onboard computer system that lets customers monitor and control vehicle systems remotely. We design, fabricate, and assemble everything in\-house at our facility in Corktown.
### **The Role**
We're hiring a senior software engineer to build the software that makes a Grounded vehicle smart: our mobile app, fleet dashboard, and onboard computer system that let customers monitor and control their vehicles remotely. You'll also help us tackle our biggest internal challenge — automating the design and manufacturing workflow so we can scale mass customization (parametric design, dynamic BOM generation, automated work instructions, and a customer\-facing configurator).
It's a broad, full\-stack role at a hardware company: from onboard systems and telemetry, to the app and dashboard customers use every day, to internal tools that let a salesperson configure a vehicle without an engineer touching it.
### **What you'd actually do**
* Build and own features across our mobile app, fleet dashboard, and onboard computer / telemetry system
* Design the data models and APIs that connect vehicles in the field to the dashboard and app
* Build internal tooling to automate design\-to\-manufacturing: programmatic/parametric CAD generation, dynamic BOMs, automated work instructions, and a configurator
* Work closely with mechanical