Tenkara – AI-Powered Operation & Supply Chain for Manufacturers Features Features About About Contact Contact Partner Login Partner Login Get Started For Free Get Started For Free Meet Tenkara Features About Contact Us Login " style="--border-bottom-width:1px;--border-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.15);--border-left-width:1px;--border-right-width:1px;--border-style:solid;--border-top-width:1px;backdrop-filter:none;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);-webkit-backdrop-filter:none;width:100%;will-change:transform;border-bottom-left-radius:4px;border-bottom-right-radius:4px;box-shadow:0px 1px 2px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05);opacity:1;transform:none"> Features Features About About Contact Contact Partner Login Partner Login Get Started For Free Software Integration Engineer Software Integration Engineer You're an experienced data engineer with expertise in building pipelines, working with messy real-world data, and translating technical concepts for customers. You're an experienced data engineer with expertise in building pipelines, working with messy real-world data, and translating technical concepts for customers.
About Us At Tenkara, we're building an operating system for process manufacturers, starting with agents that run procurement, logistics, and demand planning. American manufacturing has never had a greater opportunity to reclaim global competitiveness. But operations teams are underwater, drowning in manual coordination work. Suppliers managed over email. Freight tracked through calls. Compliance scattered across spreadsheets. Mid-market manufacturers can't scale operations without scaling headcount proportionally. Tenkara deploys agents that execute these workflows autonomously, bringing real automation to American manufacturing. Our agents enable businesses to make smarter decisions and faster transactions. Culture Build the absolute best product, bar nothing. Move fast and learn by shipping. Best ideas win. Extreme ownership. Steep trajectory for those who prove themselves. What we're building matters: helping American manufacturers compete globally. We're backed by some of the very best supply chain and enterprise software investors. We're live with manufacturers processing real transactions right now. Founded by a serial entrepreneur who built and ran manufacturing plants from the ground up.
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the Role You will own how our platform connects to the outside world: ERPs, freight systems, supplier data feeds, and customer environments. You'll build data pipelines that hold up when the source data doesn't, and work directly with customers to understand their systems and bring them onto ours. What you learn there shapes what we build next. What You’ll Take On Build and maintain integrations with ERPs, freight APIs, and client systems. Design and operate ETL pipelines that ingest, transform, and normalize external data. Partner directly with customers during onboarding to map their data to our platform. Own data quality and validation, ensuring external data is clean, consistent, and reliable. Build tooling to accelerate integration development and reduce onboarding time. Document integration patterns and create runbooks for common scenarios. Collaborate with platform and product engineers to define how external data flows through the system. What You Have Strong software engineering experience with a focus on data engineering. Strong skills in data pipelines and ETL: you've worked with tools like Airflow, dbt, Fivetran, or custom pipeline frameworks. Experience with data modeling and schema design for complex, messy real-world data. Comfortable working directly with customers—you can translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders. Familiarity with common enterprise systems: ERPs, TMS/freight platforms, EDI, or similar. Proficiency in Python, SQL, and ideally TypeScript. You're resourceful and pragmatic. You know when to build custom vs. leverage existing tools. Supply chain or logistics domain experience. What We Offer $140,000-$160,000 annually + meaningful equity (you would be one of the first 5 technical hires). Health, dental, vision following probationary period. Unlimited PTO. Hard, important problems. Foundational ownership. Direct collaboration with experienced, well-backed founders. Meaningful equity in a company with strong tailwinds. Ready To Apply? Ready To Apply? Resources Customers Customers Blog Blog Careers Careers Meet Tenkara Features Features About About Contact Us Contact Us Socials LinkedIn LinkedIn X X Privacy Policy Terms of Service © 2026 Tenkara Labs, Inc. All rights are reserved. Optimize your manufacturing workflow Get Started For Free Resources Customers Customers Blog Blog Careers Careers Meet Tenkara Features Features About About Contact Us Contact Us Socials LinkedIn LinkedIn X X Privacy Policy Terms of Service © 2026 Tenkara Labs, Inc. All rights are reserved. Optimize your manufacturing workflow Get Started For Free Resources Customers Customers Blog Blog Careers Careers Meet Tenkara Features Features About About Contact Us Contact Us Socials LinkedIn LinkedIn X X Privacy Policy Terms of Service © 2026 Tenkara Labs, Inc. All rights are reserved. Optimize your manufacturing workflow Get Started For Free Resources Customers Customers Blog Blog Careers Careers Meet Tenkara Features Features About About Contact Us Contact Us Socials LinkedIn LinkedIn X X Privacy Policy Terms of Service © 2026 Tenkara Labs, Inc. All rights are reserved. Optimize your manufacturing workflow Get Started For Free Resources Customers Customers Blog Blog Careers Careers Meet Tenkara Features Features About About Contact Us Contact Us Socials LinkedIn LinkedIn X X Privacy Policy Terms of Service © 2026 Tenkara Labs, Inc. All rights are reserved. Optimize your manufacturing workflow Get Started For Free Resources Customers Customers Blog Blog Careers Careers Meet Tenkara Features Features About About Contact Us Contact Us Socials LinkedIn LinkedIn X X Privacy Policy Terms of Service © 2026 Tenkara Labs, Inc. All rights are reserved. Optimize your manufacturing workflow Get Started For Free
Ops Agents for American Manufacturers.
Salary
$140,000 - $160,000
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Total raised
$7.0M
Investors
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.