Lead AI Decision Engineer for Manufacturing & Supply Chain

Fluidstack; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 269,000 - 335,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive total compensation package

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Retirement plan

Generous PTO policy

Job summary

Fluidstack in Seattle is seeking a Decision Engineering Team Lead for the Manufacturing & Supply Chain group. You will guide a small team of AI engineers, set direction, and personally ship high-leverage AI tools for production workflows.

You’ll own the AI tooling roadmap, design shared infrastructure, and partner with leadership to maximize productivity gains across complex manufacturing pipelines. Strong coding and architectural review skills are essential.

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

Software engineering

Team leadership

Go

Python

TypeScript

Full-stack web

LLM APIs

Agent frameworks

Code review

Communication

Tools

React

Next.js

MCP servers

Claude Code

Cursor

Job description

Fluidstack in Seattle is seeking a Decision Engineering Team Lead for the Manufacturing & Supply Chain group. You will guide a small team of AI engineers, set direction, and personally ship high-leverage AI tools for production workflows.

You’ll own the AI tooling roadmap, design shared infrastructure, and partner with leadership to maximize productivity gains across complex manufacturing pipelines. Strong coding and architectural review skills are essential.