Operations & Systems Engineer

Navi Operations; Bloomington (IN); On-site; USD 100,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Navi Operations in Bloomington, Indiana is seeking an Operations & Systems Engineer to design and build the backend logic and data systems that power planning, validation, and operational reliability.

You will work across backend infrastructure, operational modeling, and internal tooling, applying systems thinking to ensure scalable data flows and robust performance in real-world environments.

Qualifications

• Strong Python skills and experience with structured data (SQL, pandas, schemas).
• Experience building backend services or internal tools is a plus.
• Ability to reason about complex operational workflows and failure modes.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the backend logic and data systems that power planning, validation, and reliability.
• Work across backend infrastructure, operational modeling, and internal tooling.
• Practice systems thinking to model data flows and constraints in production-scale systems.

Skills

Python

Structured data

Systems thinking

Data workflows

Ownership mindset

AI/agentic systems

Tools

SQL

Pandas

Backend services design

Job description

Role Overview

We are building an AI-powered operational system used inside real manufacturing environments.

We’re looking for an Operations & Systems Engineer to design and build the backend logic and data systems that power planning, validation, and operational reliability.

This role is for someone who thinks in systems — how data flows, how constraints interact, and how real-world operational complexity becomes structured software.

You will work across backend infrastructure, operational modeling, and internal tooling.

What You'll Do

Required

• Strong Python skills
• Comfort working with structured data (SQL, pandas, schemas)
• Systems thinking and logical reasoning ability
• Ability to understand complex operational workflows
• Ownership mindset (able to take a problem from analysis to implementation)

Nice To Have

• Experience building backend services or internal tools
• Familiarity with production or operational data
• Experience designing clean data contracts
• Exposure to performance-sensitive systems

What We're Looking For

Required

• Strong experience building and shipping applied AI or agentic systems in production
• Deep understanding of LLM-based reasoning, prompting, and evaluation techniques
• Experience designing systems that handle ambiguity and imperfect data gracefully
• Ability to reason about failure modes and design for graceful degradation
• Ownership mindset — able to take a feature from architecture to deployment

Nice to Have

• Experience with optimization, scheduling, or operations research
• Experience building evaluation harnesses for agent- or LLM-based systems
• Background in manufacturing, logistics, or other operational domains

How We Evaluate

• Technical + product discussion
• Time-boxed take-home focused on state management and performance
• In-person deep dive into architecture, tradeoffs, and failure handling

We Care About

• Performance under load
• Robustness to imperfect data
• Scalable state architecture
• Production-level UX decisions

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation based on experience and level of responsibility
• Direct ownership over core operational systems
• Close collaboration with the founding team
• Exposure to production-grade operational software
• Clear growth path as the company scales

For Interns

• Paid internship with structured mentorship
• Real system-level ownership
• Clear opportunity for full-time conversion based on performance