Company Description

Mercator is building AI agents that coordinate global supply chains. Today’s systems leak $1.7T in waste each year in retail alone - in overproduction, lost revenue, and unnecessary emissions.

Mercator’s founders are seasoned technical operators with a decade of experience leading cutting-edge AI and simulation efforts across Google (Gemini, Tensorflow, & Google X). We recently raised $5M in seed funding from leading Silicon Valley investors and are scaling our small, elite engineering team to meet growing customer demand.

Role Description

As Mercator’s first Platform/Infrastructure engineer, you’ll architect the backbone that makes everything else possible. From our ingestion engine to our simulation engine to our web application, you’ll design the systems that keep our platform fast, secure, and resilient as we scale. This is a high-leverage role where you’ll turn scrappy prototypes into production-grade infrastructure, and where the tools and workflows you build will directly determine how quickly we can ship.

You’ll own our cloud environments, databases, deployments, and observability stack. You’ll also lead the security and compliance foundation needed for SOC 2 and enterprise readiness. And because our platform integrates with a wide range of external systems, you’ll build the pathways that allow customers to seamlessly move data into and take action through our product.

If you love building internal platforms that engineers actually want to use, turning infrastructure into a product, and creating the rails that unlock engineering velocity, this is the role. The systems you build will define our reliability, our security posture, and the speed at which Mercator can scale.

Benefits

Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
As a company we’ll work from a fun destination (think: skiing, surfing) two weeks a year

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Applicants must have valid U.S. work authorization. We are able to support H-1B transfers but are not initiating new visa sponsorships at this time.

About the company

Mercator Intelligence, Inc. builds an AI platform that modernizes global supply chains with an AI-driven decision orchestration layer. This layer replaces manual spreadsheet processes with real-time decision-making that helps create adaptive logistics and inventory networks. The platform surfaces and automates decisions across freight, inventory, and related operations, guiding users toward data-backed actions. Led by Google X alumni and Google AI veterans, the company aims to transform legacy supply chains into intelligent, resilient systems that perform well despite uncertainty.

Company Size

1-10

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$130K

Headquarters

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Founded

1985

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

The company’s September 2026 site update shows active positioning and ongoing hiring.
A $5 million seed round gives runway through 2026 for enterprise sales.
Supply chain teams still rely on spreadsheets and email, creating urgent automation demand.

What critics are saying

Mercator remains pre-product publicly; no customer logos or deployments appear on its site.
Alante Capital seems like a weak fit, risking limited follow-on capital and slow enterprise sales.
If pilots stall through 2027, Mercator becomes a generic supply-chain AI feature, not a company.

What makes Mercator unique

Mercator builds a decision layer for global supply chains, not another dashboard.
Megha Malpani and Grace Brentano bring Google Gemini, TensorFlow, and Google X experience.
Its platform targets high-uncertainty, conflicting-incentive decisions that spreadsheets cannot handle at scale.

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Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Paid Vacation

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Founding Platform & Infrastructure Engineer

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