# Strategic Sourcing Manager, Intern

Join Meta's Reality Labs sourcing team to help develop supply chains for AR hardware - spanning display and optics modules (eyepiece modules, waveguides, lenses, optical coatings) and custom mechanical components for Smartglasses/MR/AR programs.Work with Strategic Sourcing Managers and teams in Engineering, Quality, Operations, and Program Management. Your work will connect technical requirements with supplier capability, cost, manufacturing capacity, and supply risk. You will join the hardware sourcing team and complete a defined summer project with guidance from experienced sourcing managers. Projects may include supplier market research, cost modeling, CMF complexity analysis, or manufacturing capacity analysis. This role combines technical analysis with business decisions and provides experience in hardware sourcing and product development. Responsibilities Research suppliers, manufacturing capabilities, and technology trends to support sourcing strategies for display, optical, and custom mechanical components and modules Support requests for quotation (RFQs). Gather supplier quotes, compare bids, and help prepare supplier selection recommendations with Engineering, Quality, an

- **Id**: 4300998
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/meta-strategic-sourcing-manager-intern>
- **Role**: Operations
- **Role family**: Operations
- **Seniority**: intern
- **Employment type**: internship
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Menlo Park, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T21:11:55Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T03:11:20Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4096
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Supply Chain, Advertising, Virtual & Augmented Reality, Foundation Models

## Company

- **Id**: 20
- **Name**: Meta
- **Domain**: meta.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/meta>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Career sitemap

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 229
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.799
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 41
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-14T03:11:20Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 1; Filings 12m: 1

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 40
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:junior,brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:46:32Z

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