Job Description
You are the bridge between our engineering team and our manufacturing partners. You speak EE, ME, and embedded software well enough to push back on a designer when their part choice creates a sourcing or yield nightmare. You speak factory floor well enough to walk an SMT line in Shenzhen and know whether the operator is doing it right.
This is not a procurement role. We are not looking for someone whose primary skill is issuing POs, managing supplier portals, or running ERP. You will own purchasing, but it is downstream of the real work, which is turning engineering intent into a manufacturable, testable, shippable product, and then keeping that product flowing.
You will own the BOM, drive NPI through pilot and production ramp, run our CM relationship in Asia, and be the person the CEO and engineering leads turn to for ground truth on cost, yield, lead time, capacity, and risk. If a component has a 40 week lead time and nobody f...