2 months ago
Base Salary
$170k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build factory-to-customer visibility for work in progress, first-pass yield, vehicle genealogy, inventory, and shipment status.
- Develop planning engines for contract-manufacturer purchases and internal assembly, including SKU-by-day material planning, available-to-promise, and build and fulfillment queues.
- Manage supplier processes including purchase-order confirmations, promise dates, RFQs, design changes, tier-one through tier-three forecasts, and component pricing effectivity.
- Create visibility into physical transportation from contract manufacturers through third-party logistics providers to customers, including contract-manufacturer system feeds.
- Close the quality loop across incoming and inline quality, deviations, trends, warranty tracing, and supplier chargebacks into financial systems.
- Evaluate buy-versus-build decisions by shipping thin operational applications and instrumenting quality, transport, and warehouse processes.
- Simplify and instrument operational processes before automating them, including undocumented exceptions and system handoffs.
- Deliver working software rapidly with coding agents and embed with process-owning teams so they can ship their own improvements.
- Lead through architecture, code, and influence without current direct reports.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience building operations, manufacturing, or supply chain software from zero to production while owning data models and decision logic.
- Technical degree or equivalent hands-on experience.
- Daily LLM-native development experience with coding agents such as Claude, plus a method for validating model output through contracts, tests, evaluations, and review.
- Track record of rapidly putting working software in users’ hands and iterating based on actual usage.
- Deep SaaS platform expertise integrating QMS, TMS, WMS, or ERP systems into a unified data platform.
- Fluency in Python, SQL, and APIs, with sufficient physical-operations knowledge to reconcile conflicting data.
- Ability to earn the trust of unfamiliar teams and move to the next operational constraint after automation is live.
- Willingness to travel internationally to contract manufacturers in Taiwan when needed.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance covered up to 100% by ALSO, with FSA and HSA options.
- One Medical membership and dedicated insurance advocates.
- Fertility and family-building benefits through Progyny.
- Flexible time off.
- 401(k) match.
- Regular onsite presence in Palo Alto, warehouse-floor work, and occasional international travel are part of the role.
About ALSO
ALSO builds small, efficient electric vehicles for moving people and goods in dense urban settings, with options planned for both driver-operated and autonomous use. The privately held company, founded in 2025 and headquartered in Palo Alto, was originally incubated within Rivian and follows a vertically integrated approach spanning vehicle hardware, software, and sensing, selling directly through demos, retail experiences, and community activations.