Job Description
The role 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 flagged it, that is on you. If a CM misses a DPPM target, that is on you. If we ship on time, that is on you too. The product, so you can self select Small electronic device: SoM based compute, camera modules, sensors, plastic enclosure, cable assemblies, packaging BOM in the low to mid hundreds of line items BOM cost in the low hundreds of dollars per unit Annual volume scaling from low thousands toward tens of thousands of units in years one and two Manufactured at an EMS in Asia today; North American final assembly and test on the roadmap If you have run manufacturing for cars, aircraft, ships, satellites, buildings, oil and gas equipment, or any other multi million dollar capital good, this is not the right role for you. The cadence, decision making, supplier landscape, and unit economics are entirely different. We will not interview for that experience. What you will do Be the technical interface between engineering (EE, ME,