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Sourcing & Planning Manager

fab2.com · Austin · On-site

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About fab2.com

fab2 builds the hardware and software needed to make chips, fabs, tools, and components. Backed by Eclipse Ventures.

About the role

As a Sourcing & Planning Manager at fab2, you will own the supply base we use to manufacture semiconductor fabs. The work spans supplier negotiation, MRP execution, and shortage recovery across hardware, electronics, and raw materials. You'll work alongside production and engineering to find suppliers, drive design for manufacturability, and make sure material is never the reason a build stops. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 5+ years sourcing, procurement, or material planning for physical products
  • MRP execution in a production ERP: demand planning, PO placement, shortage recovery
  • Supplier negotiation and should-cost analysis
  • Sourcing across machined parts, electronics, and raw materials
  • Material planning under rapid design change: revision cut-ins, obsolescence
More about this role

The fab2 team can build anything. We design all the hardware and software needed to make chips and we make the fabs, tools, and components ourselves.

We're looking for exceptional, hands-on people who can iterate to the limits of what's possible.

fab2 was founded by Sam Zeloof and Jim Keller . Sam is best known for making chips in his garage, and Jim has been a leader in the semiconductor industry for the past 40 years.

About the team

The fab2 production team manufactures chip fabs. From deposition and etching tools to lithography and metrology, we are building every tool ourselves. We fabricate the metal parts, operate SMT lines to build PCBAs, and assemble the tools in-house.

As a Sourcing & Planning Manager at fab2, you will own the supply base we use to manufacture semiconductor fabs. The work spans supplier negotiation, MRP execution, and shortage recovery across hardware, electronics, and raw materials. You'll work alongside production and engineering to find suppliers, drive design for manufacturability, and make sure material is never the reason a build stops.

Own material planning for high-mix assemblies under rapid design iteration, balancing obsolescence risk against...

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