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 product engineer, you’ll architect and build the core systems that power our simulation-driven product experience. You’ll work directly with customers to understand how they operate, translate real workflows into system design, and own the backend logic that turns complex scenarios into clear, actionable outcomes. You’ll also partner closely with the engineer building our web app to ship end-to-end features and ensure simulation outputs translate into intuitive product experiences.

Like every early engineer, you’ll wear many hats:

Talk to customers to understand their workflows, pain points, and desired outcomes
Design product and system architecture for new simulation-powered features
Implement backend logic: state transitions, modeling, APIs, orchestration
Collaborate on user-facing behavior, flows, and UX with the application engineer
Ship fast, validate with customers, and iterate even faster
Debug issues (sometimes with a quick patch, sometimes improving system reliability)

These features are built on top of a simulation engine that models complex, real-world operations; what you build will directly shape high-stakes decisions and outcomes.

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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