Intern to Founding Engineer

About the Role

NAVI is an end-to-end production planning system that connects to a factory's ERP, learns its operations, and uses AI agents plus mathematical optimization for material planning and scheduling. This role is for graduating college seniors, working part-time through their final year, with a direct conversion to a full-time Software Engineer offer in May without re-interviewing. The part-time work serves as the evaluation. The team is small, works on high-stakes problems, and requires an in-person commitment in NYC.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the frontend end to end, from the data model to the user interface.
• Build dense, fast interfaces for real scheduling data, including capacity and due-date views, scenario trees, and constraint views.
• Focus on details that prevent mistakes, such as latency, clarity under pressure, and maintaining a sane state for edge cases and messy ERP data.
• Ship real production code from week one.
• Contribute to product decisions and user experience, working directly with the team.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Graduating May 2027, available full-time immediately after.
• Genuine craft for UI and UX; ability to identify and improve bad interfaces.
• Strong JavaScript and TypeScript fundamentals.
• Creative and proactive problem-solver.
• Low ego; open to changing opinions based on evidence.
• Judgment about AI: knowing when to use models and when to perform tasks manually.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and messy, real-world factory data.

Nice to Have

• Data visualization skills: canvas, SVG, D3, or WebGL.
• A portfolio or design background demonstrating taste.
• Exposure to manufacturing, supply chain, ERP, or operations.

Qualifications

• First round involves a technical interview requiring a small, smart Python script written independently, without AI assistance.