Founding Engineer

About the role

Navi is end-to-end production planning, from sales order to shop floor. We connect to a factory’s ERP, learn how it actually runs, and use AI agents plus mathematical optimization to handle the material planning and scheduling in between. We started from the factory floor and are solving problems we have hit firsthand. We are a small team working on high-stakes problems, in person in NYC, starting early. That is not for everyone and we respect it.

Responsibilities

• Work across the stack: data pipelines and ERP integrations, agent workflows, the interfaces planners actually use
• Own problems end to end. Scope it, build it, ship it, keep it running
• Build software that real factories depend on, where wrong output has consequences on a production floor
• Pick up whatever the problem requires. New domains, new tools, unfamiliar codebases
• The majority of your time will be spent designing and implementing frontend systems. This is not marketing UI. This is high-density operational software.

Requirements

• Strong generalist engineer. Language and framework agnostic. We care that you can learn fast and build well
• Creative and proactive. You find the problem worth solving instead of waiting to be handed one
• Low ego. Strong opinions, held loosely, dropped quickly when the evidence says otherwise
• Self-taught by default. You go read the source, the spec, the paper
• Judgment about AI. You know when to let a model do the work, when to do it yourself, and how to tell the difference. Neither the engineer who won’t touch it nor the one who ships whatever it produces
• Comfortable with ambiguity and messy real-world data

Nice to Have

• Manufacturing, supply chain, ERP, or ops experience
• Building on LLMs in production, not just demos

Pay

$80,000 to $120,000 base

Benefits

• Competitive equity

We are not able to sponsor or transfer employment visas for this role. Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without current or future sponsorship.