Engineering
Full-time
In person (NYC area)
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