Base Salary
$1 - $50/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and build Quince’s proprietary multi-vendor, multi-modal, multi-market supply chain planning platform from the ground up.
- Own model pipeline and experimentation lifecycles, including feature engineering, forecasting evaluation, deployment, monitoring, drift detection, and refresh.
- Integrate planning systems with vendor management, order management, and inventory platforms.
- Build AI-augmented capabilities including LLM-aided observability, natural-language operator interfaces, agentic workflows, vector stores, prompt versioning, and LLM evaluation harnesses.
- Build dashboards, override workflows, audit trails, alerts, observability systems, and feedback loops for planners and operators.
- Partner with planning teams, business leadership, scientists, product stakeholders, and engineering teams to define requirements, architecture, sequencing, and trade-offs.
- Set technical direction and architecture standards for the planning tools domain and provide direction to a globally distributed engineering team.
- Recruit and grow a small engineering team as the charter expands.
Requirements
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience building data-intensive, ML-adjacent, or science platform systems in production.
- Demonstrated 0-to-1 platform ownership from architecture through production.
- Strong production ML and AI platform engineering experience with feature pipelines, model serving, experiment frameworks, monitoring, drift detection, vector stores, prompt and trace versioning, and LLM evaluation harnesses.
- Hands-on experience applying AI-native engineering practices such as code generation, AI-generated tests, and AI-augmented platform features while maintaining rigorous quality standards.
- Sufficient understanding of forecasting and optimization models to build infrastructure around them and collaborate with scientists as a technical peer.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals across data systems, API design, pipeline orchestration, and production operations.
- Strong communication and stakeholder partnership skills for translating business problems into architectural blueprints and roadmaps.
- Experience in supply chain planning, demand forecasting, inventory optimization, or logistics operations is strongly preferred.
- Experience providing technical direction to geographically distributed engineering teams and hands-on ML or data science experience are preferred.
Benefits
- The role is at Quince, a mission-driven company focused on sustainable, accessible retail and meaningful technical challenges.
- The posted base salary range is $1—$50 USD; bonus and equity may also be provided for eligible roles.
- Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check.
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About Quince
Quince is a consumer technology platform rebuilding retail from the infrastructure up. The company began with a towel. A hotel-grade towel retailed for roughly $80. The manufacturing partner who made it sold it for about $7. Nothing about the product justified the gap. The gap was the system. Quince was built to replace that system. Its proprietary Manufacturer-to-Consumer (M2C) platform connects customers directly to the manufacturing partners behind some of the best-made products in the world, with demand signals flowing back to partners weekly so production follows what customers are actually buying, not a year-old forecast. No promotional calendar, no inventory built on guesses, no layered costs priced into the product. What differentiates Quince is not pricing. It is the system. The proof is in how the company operates: cost breakdowns published on product pages, a 365-day return policy, third-party lab testing, and products removed from the assortment at Quince's cost when they fall below the quality bar. Because the platform produces against real demand, the excess inventory that defines conventional retail is never made. Responsibility is built into the model, not added on top of it. Today, Quince offers curated essentials across 100+ categories, from cashmere and linen to fine jewelry and furniture, at prices typically 50 to 70 percent below comparable market prices, and is one of the fastest-growing consumer platforms in the industry. Visit Quince at quince.com or on Instagram at @onequince.