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
We’re ALSO, an electric mobility company on a mission to build the world’s best small vehicles for moving people and goods, driven and autonomous. Originally incubated within Rivian, we’re rethinking transportation from first principles to create a new generation of smaller, smarter, and more connected electric vehicles. Our team combines automotive rigor with advanced software, autonomy, sensing, and vertically integrated EV technologies to build products designed around the realities of modern mobility. We believe small vehicles are not a niche category, but a foundational shift in how people, goods, and communities will move through the world in the decades ahead. At ALSO, details matter. We’re builders, technologists, designers, and dreamers who care deeply about craft, innovation, and the everyday experiences our products create. Because movement is more than transportation—it’s connection, culture, freedom, and collective impact. We’re building that future now.