AI use among architectural and engineering managers is little observed so far. Measured exposure for architectural and engineering managers: 3% (little observed).

Share of this job’s tasks that AI is already used for at work, from real usage. It is not a forecast of job loss, and a low number means no use seen yet. Source: Anthropic Economic Index.

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About the job

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.