Quince
Principal Engineer - Supply Chain Planning
$265K–$300K
Palo Alto, California, United States · Principal · Full-time · Posted Aug 20, 2026
- Experience
- 12+ years of software engineering experience.
About the job
Build Quince’s supply chain planning platform from the ground up, productionizing forecasting and optimization systems and creating AI-enabled tools for planners.
What you'll do
- Architect and build the planning platform, including model pipelines, experimentation, deployment, monitoring, and integrations with vendor, order, and inventory systems.
- Create operator tools such as dashboards, override workflows, audit trails, and alerts; develop observability and feedback loops for model performance.
- Set technical direction, partner with planning and science teams, and guide a globally distributed engineering team.
What they ask for
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including significant production work on data-intensive, ML-adjacent, or science platform systems.
- Demonstrated ownership of a greenfield platform from architecture through production.
- Strong production ML and AI platform engineering experience, including feature pipelines, model serving, experimentation, monitoring, drift detection, and AI infrastructure.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals across data systems, API design, pipeline orchestration, and production operations, plus stakeholder communication skills.
Nice to have
- Experience in supply chain planning, demand forecasting, inventory optimization, or logistics; adjacent-domain candidates who can develop supply chain fluency will also be considered.
- Experience directing geographically distributed engineering teams; hands-on ML or data science background is a plus.
Pay
$265,000 — $300,000 USD base salary
Tools
vector stores, LLM
AI focus
Build an AI-native supply chain planning platform, including AI-augmented operator interfaces, LLM-aided observability, agentic planning workflows, AI-assisted incident triage, and infrastructure for AI-driven models.
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