Optimal Dynamics

Optimal Dynamics

Optimal Dynamics revolutionizes logistics with AI-powered solutions for optimized trucking operations and strategic planning.

Road & Rail
51-200
Founded 2018
$56M raised

Description

  • Lead engineering managers and build a cohesive, high-ownership engineering organization.
  • Recruit, develop, and retain engineers while overseeing career paths, headcount, and vendors.
  • Own the engineering vision, architecture, and technology strategy, with emphasis on reliability, security, and scalability.
  • Translate business priorities into executable engineering plans and make pragmatic short- and long-term technical investment decisions.
  • Establish CI/CD, QA, testing, and production deployment policies and practices.
  • Partner with Product, Design, AI, and Analytics leaders on roadmap, prioritization, ownership, and productionizing AI and optimization capabilities.
  • Represent engineering to executive leadership, communicating progress, risks, timelines, and resource needs.
  • Contribute technical expertise to customer, partner, and investor conversations.
  • Implement delivery metrics and operating rhythms; manage cloud spend and ensure security, privacy, and compliance standards meet enterprise expectations.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of engineering experience, including significant experience designing and building production systems.
  • 3+ years of experience managing managers.
  • Experience leading an engineering organization in a scaling startup or technical environment.
  • Experience building and scaling B2B SaaS products, ideally for enterprise customers.
  • Strong architecture and technical-strategy leadership, with the ability to remain hands-on in architecture and code.
  • Experience establishing secure, reliable, scalable engineering practices, including CI/CD and QA.
  • Experience directing ongoing SOC 2 compliance and hardening infrastructure, data, and access controls.
  • Strong cross-functional communication skills across engineering, product, AI/analytics, executives, and customers.
  • Experience building trust and consensus within teams that have established managers and history.
  • Familiarity with the company’s stack is preferred: AWS, Python, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Terraform, GitHub, and CI/CD tooling.
  • Experience in logistics, transportation systems, or similarly complex operational domains is preferred.

Benefits

  • $240,000–$280,000 USD salary range plus Series C equity.
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage at 100% for employees and 50% for dependents.
  • Life, short- and long-term disability, and AD&D insurance, with optional supplemental life coverage.
  • FSA and HSA accounts, plus a 401(k) with employer match.
  • Unlimited PTO, 11 holidays, and paid parental leave for all employees.
  • Fitness membership reimbursement and commuter benefits.

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