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# Sales at NOX METALS

- **Company:** NOX METALS
- **Location:** Detroit, MI
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nox-metals/0f65cfce-ab00-42e6-a27b-fe8aa9ac9556

## Job description

Sales American factories deserve a supply chain that moves as fast as they do. The next generation of American manufacturing is being built right now. Nox Metals is the supply chain behind it. We use software and automation to supply metal to American factories faster than the industry thought possible. We are hiring a salesperson to win new accounts with American manufacturers and grow them into long term partners. You will:

- Close new accounts, from first conversation to first order
- Own relationships with buyers, supply chain managers, and shop owners, and become the person they call first
- Quote fast and follow up faster
- Learn the product deeply, including alloys, tempers, tolerances, lead times, and what actually matters on the floor
- Work closely with software and purchasing to turn demand signals into inventory decisions, so the right plate is already on the floor when the order lands
- Use AI to research accounts, prepare for calls, and follow up at a volume a team of five could not match
- Build your own internal tools in Claude Code
- Manage your own time with real discipline, protect your focus for the work that matters most, and delegate the rest
- Grow existing accounts by finding the next part, the next program, and the next plant
- Bring pricing, product, and service feedback back into the company while it is still useful

You should be:

- Experienced at a high growth company or an early stage startup
- Fast, organized, and on time
- Excellent with AI tools and fluent in Claude Code. This is one of the most important skills in the role
- A constant learner who goes deep on new subjects without being asked
- Focused on the highest leverage work, with a strong instinct for what is exponential and what is only linear
- Someone who puts the business first, especially when deciding where their own time goes and what to hand off
- A problem solver who can carry a big item alone and knows when to pull in help
- An optimist who believes this is a solvable problem and a winnable market
- A leader who sets the standard for the people around them and makes the whole team better
- Someone with a great attitude, the kind of person others want to work next to on a hard day
- Low ego, customer obsessed, and quick to take work off other people's plates
- High agency, and someone who never says "that's not my job"
- Excited by a role where the extra hours you put in show up directly in the numbers. This role runs 60 to 90 hours per week and weekends are expected
- Excited to spend the next 30 years rebuilding American manufacturing

Significant equity is offered. This role is full time, in person in Detroit.

## About NOX METALS

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: NOX METALS is an AI-powered metals supplier that provides instant quotes and rapid delivery of cut-to-size aluminum plate to American manufacturers through vertically integrated, software-driven factories.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; raised $11.5M seed round per company website, plus $4.6M pre-seed from Y Combinator per LinkedIn – conflicting reports)
- **Headquarters**: Detroit, Michigan, United States (2703 23rd Street, Detroit, MI 48216)
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Zane Hengsperger (Founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Manufacturing, metals processing, industrial supply chain
- **Target customers**: Job shops, OEMs, Tier 1/2/3 suppliers, aerospace, defense, and industrial manufacturers (B2B)
- **Mission**: To reindustrialize America by supplying manufacturers at warp speeds and lower prices, with the goal of enabling 100x more parts made in the USA.

## Products & Services
- **Gondor (Ordering Platform)**: An AI-powered system where customers upload material lists or paste part specs, and the AI parses, prices, and returns a quote in under 60 seconds. Offers real-time order tracking, mill certs, and one-click reordering.
- **Nox Nest (AI Nesting Engine)**: An ML-trained bin-packing solver that evaluates hundreds of thousands of cut combinations to find the optimal path, reducing scrap and creating predictive inventory based on likely future orders.
- **Predictive Inventory**: AI that anticipates what American manufacturers need and stocks material before customers even place an order.
- **AI Schedule**: Machine-learning trained scheduling and job timing to lower lead times.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metrics**:
  - Total funding: $11.5M seed round (per company website) plus a $4.6M pre-seed round led by Y Combinator (per LinkedIn/Tracxn)
  - Team size: ~22 (per Y Combinator profile; LinkedIn shows 8 employees but 24 active job postings, suggesting rapid growth)
  - Headcount growth: +27.3% monthly (LinkedIn)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (led pre-seed; Summer 2025 batch), Jared Friedman (Primary Partner at YC)
- **Growth Signals**: Raised $11.5M seed round in 2026; 24 open positions; expanding from aluminum plate/block into steel, tube, and sheet; LinkedIn followers 4,148 with +8.3% monthly growth.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Vertically integrated factories**: NOX builds and operates its own automated cutting facilities, removing middlemen, brokers, and manual scheduling layers.
- **AI-first operations**: ML-driven nesting, scheduling, and inventory prediction deliver quotes in seconds and lead times in days rather than weeks.
- **Lower overhead**: Automation (robots pick, cut, package, label) reduces human bottlenecks, enabling better pricing and faster throughput.
- **Real-time visibility**: Every order tracked from quote to delivery, with mill certifications attached.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Scale the Detroit factory, expand product offerings into steel, tube, and sheet, and continue building out the software platform (Gondor, Nest, AI Schedule).
- **Direction**: Become the fastest and lowest-cost supplier to America’s industrial base by treating the factory as a software product.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Early-stage startup backed by Y Combinator; mission-driven to reindustrialize America; fast-paced environment where software and hardware meet.
- **Work environment**: On-site in Detroit, MI (2703 23rd Street). Roles span software engineering (perception, full-stack), factory operations, shift leads, sales, and IT/SecOps.
- **Perks & highlights**: Opportunity to work with advanced manufacturing technology (AI, robotics, automated cutting lines); competitive salaries ($80K–$150K for engineering roles); direct impact on the supply chain of American manufacturing.
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on building automated factories that are “the product” – software engineers work alongside factory operators to optimize real-time production.

## Sources
1. [NOX METALS Website](https://noxmetals.co/)
2. [Y Combinator Company Profile](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/nox-metals)
3. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/noxmetals)
4. [Careers Page (Ashby)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nox-metals)

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