2 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
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 direct-to-consumer ecommerce retailer that sells apparel, accessories, and home goods by connecting shoppers directly with manufacturing partners. Its manufacturer-to-consumer model uses demand-driven production and price transparency (including cost breakdowns) to reduce middlemen and inventory waste. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held company offers curated essentials across categories such as cashmere, linen, jewelry, and furniture through its online storefront.