Principal Engineer - Supply Chain Planning

About the company

Quince is an e-commerce platform that manufactures and sells apparel, home goods, accessories, beauty, and wellness products directly to consumers through its “manufacturer-to-consumer” model.

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><p data-renderer-start-pos="34"><strong data-renderer-mark="true"><u data-renderer-mark="true">ABOUT QUINCE&nbsp;</u></strong></p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="74">Founded in 2018, Quince was built to challenge the idea that nice things have to cost a lot. Our mission is simple: to make really high quality essentials for really low prices, produced fairly and sustainably. We believe everyone deserves exceptional craftsmanship and timeless design without the traditional markups. Quince is a direct-to-consumer (DTC) model that cuts out middlemen and leverages just-in-time manufacturing to minimize waste and maximize value.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="540">Quince is a tech company disrupting the retail industry by putting AI, analytics and automation at the center of everything we do. Our unwavering commitment to excellence and company values guide our teams and actions:</p> <ul class="ak-ul" data-indent-level="1"> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="762"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Customer First</strong>: We prioritize customer satisfaction in every decision.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="836"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">High Quality</strong>: True quality means premium materials and rigorous production standards you can feel good about.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="949"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Essential Design</strong>: We focus on timeless, functional essentials instead of chasing trends.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1041"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Always a Better Deal</strong>: Innovation and transparency ensure value for both customers and partners.</p> </li> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1140"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Social &amp; Environmental Responsibility</strong>: We commit to sustainable materials, ethical production, and fair wages.</p> </li> </ul> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1254">Quince partners with world-class manufacturers across the globe and serves millions of customers. With strong investor backing and a focus on sustainable growth, we are a company that is rapidly scaling while maintaining a commitment to quality, simplicity, and radical price transparency.</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1545"><strong data-renderer-mark="true"><u data-renderer-mark="true">OUR TEAM AND SUCCESS&nbsp;</u></strong></p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1587">At Quince, you will be part of a high-performing team that is redefining what quality, value, and sustainability mean in modern retail. We are a destination for builders, innovators, and operators to come together and challenge the status quo. Our collective ambition is bold. We are creating an entirely new category and customer experience – one that democratizes luxury and provides high quality products at radically low prices. That mission demands a world-class team committed to excellence.&nbsp;</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="2087">If you are motivated by impact, growth, and purpose, you will find a strong sense of belonging at Quince.</p></div><p data-renderer-start-pos="2290" data-local-id="6a0d0d38-3057-4834-9012-12f09f19e465"><strong data-renderer-mark="true"><span class="fabric-text-color-mark" data-renderer-mark="true" data-text-custom-color="#0747a6"><u data-renderer-mark="true">THE ROLE </u></span></strong></p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="2301" data-local-id="6d5afd27-5970-45c1-b675-f5df64663cbf"><strong data-renderer-mark="true"><span class="fabric-text-color-mark" data-renderer-mark="true" data-text-custom-color="#0747a6">Principal Engineer - Supply Chain Planning</span></strong></p> <p>Quince is building its own supply chain planning platform from scratch because the model we operate doesn’t fit anything off the shelf. Our supply chain runs factory-direct, at high frequency, with short lead times, across a growing number of vendors, fulfillment centers, and markets worldwide. The planning and forecasting layer that coordinates all of this is being rebuilt, and as Principal Engineer for Supply Chain Planning Tools, you will build it.</p> <p>This role is about building the production systems that make data science real, specifically the platform infrastructure that takes forecasting models and optimization algorithms from development into the weekly cadence that runs the business. You’ll need to understand the science well enough to partner with the people who do it, translate it into reliable systems, and give operators the controls to work alongside it and override it when needed.</p> <p>This is a 0-to-1 role. You won’t inherit a system, but a set of business workflows. You’ll design and build one, with a small and highly capable team, starting with demand forecasting and planning infrastructure and expanding into logistics and warehouse optimization.&nbsp;</p> <p>The platform we'll build is AI-native by design. AI-augmented operator interfaces, LLM-aided observability, agentic workflows over planning data, and AI-assisted incident triage are first-class capabilities on the roadmap, not afterthoughts. The Principal Engineer will set the bar for both — how the team builds with AI, and how AI shows up in what we ship.<br><br>The ideal candidate is a seasoned production engineer who has spent meaningful time in the orbit of data science and ML, not as a practitioner, but as the person who makes it work in production. They have built model pipelines, experimentation frameworks, feature infrastructure, and operator tooling that bring algorithmic systems to life at scale. They can walk into a room with supply chain practitioners, understand their problems at a strategic level, and independently determine what to build. They don’t wait for a PM to translate, and they don’t wait for a large team to start executing.</p> <p>They thrive in environments where strategy, innovation, and decision-making are intentionally distributed, where candor, speed, and data are highly valued, and colleagues at all levels hold each other to un