Up Labs

Lead Software Engineer - Stealth AI Manufacturing Planning Startup

USA

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 23 days ago

JavaScriptPythonNode.jsAlgorithmsDatabricksAzureMachine LearningResearchMentoringDemand Planning

About the role

Built in partnership with a $1.5B+ truck body manufacturer, the platform is a demand-driven planning co-pilot that helps manufacturers reduce schedule volatility, improve on-time delivery, and scale operational intelligence across their plants.
Establish engineering patterns, standards, and discipline as the team grows from its earliest stage.
Use AI as a force multiplier across development and product capabilities.

Own backend architecture and system design decisions alongside the CTO - whiteboard to production.
Build and scale the core platform on a Node.js / Python stack with Azure Databricks as the data layer.
Design and implement optimization-heavy algorithms for demand planning and production scheduling.
Collaborate directly with product and data functions - the team is small, the surface area is wide.
Mentor and eventually lead a small team of engineers, setting the technical bar without the ego.
You built things from scratch and learned system design by doing it.
You lead without pretension - deep technical expertise without needing a title to prove it.
You're comfortable operating in ambiguity early on, wearing multiple hats, and building the plane while flying it.
About UP.Labs: UP.Labs builds high-growth tech startups that enable faster, cleaner, and smarter movement of people and goods.

5-10+ years of engineering experience, with meaningful tenure at startups - ideally founding or early engineer who stayed and saw a product scale.
Proficiency in Node.js and Python
comfort across a modern JavaScript stack.
Experience with Azure Databricks or comparable cloud data platforms.
Some experience leading or mentoring engineers, even informally.
You Should Have: 5-10+ years of engineering experience, with meaningful tenure at startups - ideally founding or early engineer who stayed and saw a product scale.

Our unique approach combines meaningful equity for team members, scalable software built from the ground up, and deep corporate partnerships with industry leaders invested in the outcome.

How You'll Operate: You rose through the ranks at a startup, not a big company.
Demonstrated 0>1 experience on a B2B SaaS product, with firsthand exposure to scaling to thousands of customers.

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