AI Decision Engineering Lead for Manufacturing & Supply

Fluidstack; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 269,000 - 335,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Generous PTO

Job summary

Fluidstack in Austin, TX is hiring a Decision Engineering Team Lead for the Manufacturing & Supply Chain team. You will lead a small team of Decision Engineers building AI-powered tools and decision systems to improve productivity in manufacturing and supply chain workflows, while still shipping hands-on.

You will set technical direction, own the team's delivery bar, grow engineers, and partner with leadership to pick high-impact AI augmentation bets.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with 2+ years leading a team while still coding
• Track record shipping production systems in supply chain, manufacturing, logistics, or automation domains
• Production-grade code in Go, Python, and TypeScript, with strong full-stack skills building web applications (React, Next.js, or similar frameworks)
• Hands-on experience building applications with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, or open-weight models), creating and using MCP servers, and agentic frameworks
• Deep understanding of AI coding agent tools including Claude Code and Cursor, and the agent frameworks around them
• Technical depth to review architecture and unblock engineers, not just manage
• Ownership mentality: you can define a roadmap and execute without heavy process support
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders
• Nice to have: experience at a fast-scaling automation, robotics, or supply chain software company

Responsibilities

• Lead a small team of Decision Engineers, setting technical direction and owning the bar for what ships
• Still build hands-on: personally ship the highest-leverage AI tools and agents for manufacturing and supply chain workflows
• Own the team's delivery: identify the highest-impact AI augmentation opportunities across manufacturing and supply chain workflows and turn them into shipped tools with measurable productivity gains
• Design and maintain shared AI infrastructure including AGENTS.md and SKILLS.md, and shared skills the wider organization builds on
• Grow the engineers on your team through review, direction, and hiring
• Partner with team and functional leadership to translate their goals into an AI tooling roadmap

Skills

Team leadership

Go

Python

TypeScript

Full-stack web apps

LLM APIs

Agent frameworks

Claude Code

Cursor

Architecture review

Communication

Ownership mindset

Tools

Go

Python

TypeScript

React/Next.js

LLM APIs

MCP servers

Agent frameworks

Claude Code

Cursor

Job description

Fluidstack in Austin, TX is hiring a Decision Engineering Team Lead for the Manufacturing & Supply Chain team. You will lead a small team of Decision Engineers building AI-powered tools and decision systems to improve productivity in manufacturing and supply chain workflows, while still shipping hands-on.

You will set technical direction, own the team's delivery bar, grow engineers, and partner with leadership to pick high-impact AI augmentation bets.