Apptronik

Apptronik

Global Supply Manager - Electrical & Electronics

Austin, TX

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 8 days ago
NegotiationSupply ChainLogisticsERPPCB DesignRoboticsElectrical EngineeringHardware DesignMedical DevicesCommunicationPublic SpeakingProcurement

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About the role

  • We operate at the cutting edge of Applied AI, applying our expertise across the full robotics stack to solve some of society's most important problems.
  • You will join a team dedicated to bringing Apollo to market at scale, tackling the complex challenges like safety, commercialization, and mass production to change the world for the better.
  • This role equips the Supply Chain team with qualified suppliers, negotiated pricing, and established commercial terms.

Responsibilities

  • Own commodity strategy for PCB fabrication, PCBA/EMS, wire harness and cable assembly, compute modules, sensors and perception hardware, and board-level components.
  • Define the supply-base architecture for each commodity, including prototype partner, volume partner, regional alternate, and the triggers that move work between them.
  • Create and run RFQs and RFPs, and lead supplier selection and contract award.
  • Develop should-cost models addressing real cost drivers, including layer count, panel utilization, placement count, test strategy, connector and terminal selection, and labor content.
  • Negotiate pricing, NRE, tooling, minimum order quantities, NCNR commitments, capacity reservations, and commercial terms, and own MSAs, LTAs, and tooling ownership agreements.
  • Own commodity cost targets and multi-year cost-reduction roadmaps, including design-to-cost, supplier negotiations, VA/VE, alternate components, manufacturing-process improvements, and volume-based pricing.
  • Maintain costed-BOM visibility for assigned commodities and identify gaps and opportunities against program-level BOM cost targets.
  • Build and maintain AVL/AML strategy including qualification criteria and geographic footprint requirements.
  • Own component-level supply-risk strategy, including allocation management, lead-time volatility, NCNR exposure, EOL and last-time-buy events, lifecycle status, sole-source dependencies, and alternate-part qualification.
  • Ensure suppliers are prepared to support prototype builds, pilot builds, and production ramp on schedule.

Requirements

  • Ability to safely lift and/or move approximately 15 pounds at times.
  • Ability to communicate effectively with team members during normal operations and when responding to safety or operational concern
  • Ability to walk manufacturing floors and use required personal protective equipment during supplier audits and site visits

Nice to have

  • Proven should-cost modeling capability and a negotiation track record with quantified results on electronics categories.
  • Ability to read schematics, BOMs, fabrication and harness drawings, and test specifications, and to engage electrical engineering on technical detail.
  • Experience owning commercial agreements end to end.
  • Strong spreadsheet and modeling skills.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including presenting to executive leadership.
  • Strong record of applying first-principles thinking to supplier negotiations.
  • Track record of managing successful escalations to the executive level within a supplier.
  • Experience qualifying and scaling a prototype supplier into a production supplier.

Compensation

  • Ability to travel domestically and internationally, averaging 25% per year including supplier manufacturing sites

Benefits

  • Drive dual and multi-source coverage on critical content and own the roadmap that builds redundancy into single-sourced supply.
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