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About the role
As an NPI Buyer/Planner, you sit between engineering and the factory floor. When a new design or a redesigned part comes out of engineering, you're the one who finds it a home: a qualified supplier, a real lead time, a purchase order, and a place on the build schedule. You'll work from our material cost breakdowns and BOMs directly — real part numbers, real suppliers, real weight and cost data — not a black-box spreadsheet someone else maintains. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years of buying or planning experience in hardware, robotics, or a related electromechanical precision-manufacturing environment
- Comfort reading a BOM and an engineering drawing well enough to have an informed conversation with both a supplier and an engineer
- Experience translating a demand forecast into purchase requirements — you've done the math on spares, lead time, and safety stock before
- A track record of qualifying and onboarding new suppliers, ideally for precision mechanical or electromechanical components
- Working knowledge of an ERP or MRP system, PLM experience is a strong plus
- Comfortable with the ambiguity of an early-stage ramp — you build the process while you're running it
More about this role
We are an early-stage humanoid robotics startup building intelligent robots designed to work alongside people. Our mission is to multiply human progress — creating machines that can take on useful work in real-world environments, from factories and warehouses to streets and public spaces.
We are small, technically ambitious, and moving fast. Every team member here has outsized ownership over what we build and how we build it.
As an NPI Buyer/Planner, you sit between engineering and the factory floor. When a new design or a redesigned part comes out of engineering, you're the one who finds it a home: a qualified supplier, a real lead time, a purchase order, and a place on the build schedule. You'll work from our material cost breakdowns and BOMs directly — real part numbers, real suppliers, real weight and cost data — not a black-box spreadsheet someone else maintains.
This isn't a steady-state buying job. Volumes are moving from single digits to hundreds of units inside a year, new suppliers are being onboarded as you read this, and the tools you'll use (our ERP and PLM systems) are still being stood up. You'll help shape them, not just use them.
If you are energized by getting...
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