Head of Engineering (Advanced Manufacturing Supply Chain)

A growth-stage manufacturing startup is modernizing how metal stock reaches aerospace and defense producers in the United States. It needs a hands-on engineering leader to create the software organization from the ground up and to design the systems that run both the business and the plant.

Scope

• Own the technology strategy and roadmap, spanning products customers use, tooling for internal teams, data platforms, cloud infrastructure and applied ML
• Recruit, grow and lead the engineering team from its first hires
• Shape a durable system architecture covering customer, sales and manufacturing needs, while remaining hands-on enough to vet important designs yourself
• Sit down with the commercial, operations and finance teams and with plant staff to convert how work actually gets done into applications
• Lift standards for uptime, security and monitoring, and measure what that does for customers and the plant

Ideal background

• Four to ten years as a software engineer, including at least a year leading a small team of three to five
• Product-minded, backend-leaning full stack skills, with a split of about seventy percent hands-on engineering and thirty percent people leadership
• Proven zero-to-one ownership of systems at a high-growth startup or a company of a hundred to a thousand-plus people
• Daily, deep use of leading AI coding tools
• Ease working with both engineers and factory operators
• Manufacturing, logistics, supply chain, industrial software or optimization experience is a plus
• Willingness to travel up to a fifth of the time

On-site five days a week in the South Bay area of Los Angeles. Unable to sponsor or transfer visas.