At Pelico, state-of-the-art technology meets supply-chain expertise in the search for operational excellence. Our manufacturing intelligence platform helps factories at Safran, Airbus, Daikin and other aerospace, defense, and industrial leaders stay agile and resilient — turning disruption into decisions. We're a fast-growing international SaaS scale-up: 180+ Pelicans, 36+ nationalities, across Paris and Miami, making real impact, every day, on the ground 💙
Pelico is a configuration-driven, AI-native platform: a field engineer stands up a running factory application by authoring YAML — schema, algorithms, widgets, actions, agents — instead of writing code. The Platform squads build the reusable blocks that make that possible, and we run them as a product our customers are other engineers — the Solution squads, our Regional Solution Engineering pods, and customer AI teams building on top of us.
You'll lead one squad — the configurability framework, the compute layer, the widget surface, the agent-development substrate (MCP/LSP/harness/BYOM), the integration layer, or the end-user Copilot — owning a capability cluster the whole company builds on.
You'll own a platform capability end to end — and ship it yourself:
Build the substrate. Author the framework, SPI, runtime, or AI tooling other squads depend on, and review the rest at architectural depth.
Run it as a product. Own the roadmap, the contracts your consumers rely on, the adoption metric, and the deprecation policy that keeps the surface clean.
Set the bar. Author specs, run the spec-driven workflow, and stand up the eval and review gates that make agent-authored code trustworthy.
Harvest the field. Turn recurring customer patterns into platform capabilities, so learning compounds instead of fragmenting into bespoke forks.
Lead by example. Write the load-bearing code, pair with your engineers, raise their craft, and grow the squad as the leverage you ship earns it.
Every Solution squad and every customer deployment is only as strong as the platform underneath it. Own a capability cluster well and you create leverage the entire company compounds on — the difference between a platform that scales and a pile of one-off forks.
This is a lead-by-example role for a senior engineer who builds platforms other engineers love. You're excited by deep, high-blast-radius problems, you measure yourself by what others build on your work, and you lead by being among the best engineers in the room.
You'll need:
A track record of shipping production platform / framework / infrastructure that other engineers build on (SPIs, libraries, runtimes, dev tooling, or AI substrate)
Deep, current hands-on coding — we build in Kotlin / Java 25 (TypeScript/React for the experience squads); strong here, or a fast learner
Real API / SPI / abstraction-design judgment, with a feel for performance and correctness at scale (up to hundreds of millions of records)
A platform-as-product mindset — you optimize for adoption and others' leverage, and you're comfortable deprecating
A track record of leading senior engineers by example, not by leaving the keyboard
Nice to have:
Running a team as an internal platform (adoption metrics, internal NPS, deprecation, roadmap)
Squad-relevant depth — codegen/annotation processors, Kubernetes/IaC/observability, React/design systems, MCP/LSP/agent harnesses, ERP/connectors, or end-user agent UX
AI-native ways of working (agentic workflows, eval harnesses, spec-driven development)
Aerospace / defense / discrete-manufacturing context
French is a plus, not a requirement
If you bring the essentials and a strong mix of the rest, we want to hear from you — we're hiring the person who'll make this real, not a checklist.
A real ownership mandate over a capability cluster, with equity in a category-defining scale-up
Deep, high-leverage problems with real customers and real scale
An AI-native engineering culture and a small, elite squad — be challenged, learn, and have fun
Hybrid working from our Paris HQ, an international team of 36+ nationalities
Intro call with Talent Acquisition (30 min)
Hiring manager conversation with the VP Engineering (45 min)
Case Study onsite 1h30 / 2h
Leadership conversation + founders (CEO/CTO)
Offer + References, run in parallel
Pelico is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the manufacturers we serve. All applications are reviewed — we'll get back to you.
In today’s world, supply chain disruptions are inevitable, but the impact on your bottom line doesn’t have to be. Pelico is a manufacturing orchestration platform built for complex, global supply chains.
Our platform eliminates fragmentation by connecting and enriching your supply chain operations data, providing teams and executives with real-time upstream and downstream visibility of disruption impacts across every part of your operation, from procurement to production to customer support.
With Pelico’s AI-powered operations, teams are able to anticipate and respond to disruptions before they become problems. With AI-generated recommendations and the ability to simulate scenarios on real-time data, teams can collaborate effectively and optimize their workflows to keep the line running.
Our precision insights provide executives with real-time answers to critical questions, like what is blocking progress, and what are my team’s blindspot, so they can make better decisions and optimize operations on the fly.
The result is a more agile, resilient supply chain that keeps production on track, minimizes costs, and delivers on time, every time.
Within 10 weeks of implementing Pelico, global, market-leading companies like Airbus, Safran, Eaton and Daikin reduced parts shortages by 37%, increased on-time delivery by 15%, and reduced turnaround time by 42%.
