Operations & Systems Engineer

Role Overview

We are building an AI-powered operational system used inside real manufacturing environments.

We’re looking for an Operations & Systems Engineer to design and build the backend logic and data systems that power planning, validation, and operational reliability.

This role is for someone who thinks in systems — how data flows, how constraints interact, and how real-world operational complexity becomes structured software.

You will work across backend infrastructure, operational modeling, and internal tooling.

What You'll Do

Required:

• Strong Python skills
• Comfort working with structured data (SQL, pandas, schemas)
• Systems thinking and logical reasoning ability
• Ability to understand complex operational workflows
• Ownership mindset (able to take a problem from analysis to implementation)

Nice To Have:

• Experience building backend services or internal tools
• Familiarity with production or operational data
• Experience designing clean data contracts
• Exposure to performance-sensitive systems

What We're Looking For

Required

• Strong experience building and shipping applied AI or agentic systems in production
• Deep understanding of LLM-based reasoning, prompting, and evaluation techniques
• Experience designing systems that handle ambiguity and imperfect data gracefully
• Ability to reason about failure modes and design for graceful degradation
• Ownership mindset — able to take a feature from architecture to deployment

Nice to Have

• Experience with optimization, scheduling, or operations research
• Experience building evaluation harnesses for agent- or LLM-based systems
• Background in manufacturing, logistics, or other operational domains

How We Evaluate

• Technical + product discussion
• Time-boxed take-home focused on state management and performance
• In-person deep dive into architecture, tradeoffs, and failure handling

We Care About:

• Performance under load
• Robustness to imperfect data
• Scalable state architecture
• Production-level UX decisions

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation based on experience and level of responsibility
• Direct ownership over core operational systems
• Close collaboration with the founding team
• Exposure to production-grade operational software
• Clear growth path as the company scales

For Interns:

• Paid internship with structured mentorship
• Real system-level ownership
• Clear opportunity for full-time conversion based on performance