Supply Chain Manager - AI Special Projects

Trope Research is an AI research lab building training environments for AI models and agents. We bring together professionals to help shape the next generation of knowledge work for the industrial world. We're backed by top investors, including Y Combinator.

Trope is seeking supply chain managers and planners with 7+ years of experience. Your experience forecasting demand, planning supply, setting inventory targets and coordinating materials or replenishment can help AI systems understand the work and decisions that matter in your profession.

We believe leaders who understand the spikes of frontier models will be best positioned to lead adoption and deployments over the next 1-3 years.

In this part-time and remote role
, you will use a simulated work environment to create realistic scenarios grounded in your professional expertise. Working with other experts and Trope’s AI research team, you will design, review, and solve tasks that challenge the capabilities of frontier AI.

We are unable to support H-1B or STEM OPT candidates at this time. Additionally, this role requires you to be based in the United States.

• Flexible Commitment – Work on your schedule alongside your current role or other commitments.
• Fully Remote – Work from anywhere.
• Competitive Pay – Earn competitive hourly rates for your expertise.
• Professional Growth – Expand your skills and gain hands-on experience in AI training and evaluation.
• Shape the Future – Work on cutting-edge AI projects alongside leading technology companies.

• Create realistic tasks drawn from your experience forecasting demand, planning supply, setting inventory targets and coordinating materials or replenishment.
• Solve tasks and review proposed solutions for accuracy, completeness and practical judgment.
• Explain the records, decisions and checks needed to complete the work successfully, including how you would handle changes or exceptions.

• 7+ years of hands‑on experience as a Supply Chain Planner, Demand Planner, Supply Planner, Materials Planner, Inventory Planner, Replenishment Planner or Buyer/Planner, or in an equivalent role with comparable responsibilities.
• Substantial responsibility for developing, maintaining or executing demand, supply, materials or inventory plans.
• Your experience may include forecasting, material requirements planning (MRP), replenishment, supplier schedules, inventory targets or balancing demand with supply and capacity. You do not need experience in every area listed.
• Confidence working with planning systems, ERP records, forecasts or spreadsheets to complete and check your work.
• Ability to explain your decisions clearly and assess whether a proposed solution would work in practice.

• ERP experience: Hands‑on experience using ERP systems such as SAP, Microsoft Dynamics or Oracle Net Suite is a plus.
• AI fluency: Hands‑on working use of large language models in your professional work, and the judgment to tell a well‑reasoned answer from a plausible‑sounding wrong one.

Please contact recruiting for any questions.