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Forgepoint is building AI workers for manufacturing back-office operations—helping US manufacturers automate estimating, procurement, quoting, and other non-production workflows. The company is backed by a16z Speedrun and angels from Brex, Xwing, and Betterment.
This is a hands-on senior individual-contributor role at the intersection of applied AI, product, and distributed systems. You will take ambiguous customer problems and complex product initiatives, turn them into focused architectures, and ship simple, reliable systems in production.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead complex product initiatives from customer discovery and technical design through implementation, rollout, and production operation
- Turn broad product requirements into focused architecture documents, clear tradeoffs, and incremental execution plans
- Build core AI product experiences and the agent workflows, tools, and integrations behind them
- Improve agent performance, reliability, and cost as usage grows and new models arrive
- Design and operate distributed systems, including queues, workers, observability, and failure recovery
- Help set technical strategy across models, agent architecture, context management, infrastructure, and developer experience
- Raise the engineering bar through simple design, testing, code review, and operational follow-through
- Mentor engineers and create patterns, documentation, and feedback loops that make the team more effective
You'll build AI workers across the stack, from customer-facing experiences to long-running agent workflows and integrations with legacy ERPs and CRMs. The stack is TypeScript end-to-end with React, Node.js, and PostgreSQL, running on AWS and Kubernetes. Technical leadership at Forgepoint means writing and operating core product code while raising the bar for the team through clear technical writing, thoughtful code review, mentorship, and better developer tooling.
The company culture emphasizes in-person collaboration (five days a week in NYC), constant user engagement with manufacturers, end-to-end ownership, and simple, incremental systems. Core values include winning at the highest level, resourcefulness, honesty, speed, and team-first thinking.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 5+ years of product engineering experience with a track record of designing, shipping, and operating important systems
- Experience across both a high-growth startup and a scaled engineering organization is a plus
- Strong systems thinking: ability to reduce complex domains to clear boundaries and maintainable software
- Product mindset: learn how customers work, notice patterns, connect technical decisions to customer value
- Deep care for code quality and reliability without unnecessary abstraction or complexity
- Clear communication with technical and non-technical teammates; ability to mentor and improve others through writing, code review, and feedback
- Thoughtful opinions about fast-moving AI technology; ability to choose models, architectures, and context strategies based on evidence
- Ambitious, resourceful, action-oriented, team-first mindset; commitment to strengthening American manufacturing
- Willingness to work in person five days a week in NYC
BONUS:
- Deep experience with TypeScript, Node.js, React, or PostgreSQL
- Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, queues, streaming, caching, retries, consistency, and observability
- Experience building large surface areas of third-party integrations, especially with legacy systems
- Experience building software for manufacturing or other operationally complex industries
