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We are a team of engineers, scientists, roboticists, and company builders developing foundation models and learning algorithms to power the robots of today and the physically-actuated devices of the future.\nIn this role you will own the supply chain and procurement strategy for PI's robot platforms as we scale from prototype to production. You'll build and expand a resilient global supply chain across electromechanical systems including actuators, motors, gearboxes, sensors, compute modules, PCBAs, harnessing, and structural/mechanical assemblies while partnering closely with engineering and manufacturing.\nSitting at the interface between our engineering teams and the industries that supply core technologies, you'll own sourcing strategy and supplier execution across the full robot BOM, lead the transition from in-house builds toward contract manufacturing, negotiate commercial agreements against aggressive cost and quality targets, and establish the sourcing processes, metrics, and supplier performance frameworks for a rapidly scaling robotics organization’s needs.\nIn this role you will\nOwn sourcing strategy and supplier execution across the full robot BOM: actuators, motors, gearboxes, sensors, compute modules, PCBAs, harnessing, and mechanical / structural assemblies.\n\nEstablish sourcing processes, supplier selection, capacity planning, dual-sourcing, and risk mitigation. Metrics, and supplier performance management frameworks appropriate for a rapidly scaling robotics organization.\n\nPartner closely with mechanical, electrical, firmware, and compute engineering teams to drive design for manufacturability, supply chain resilience, and cost optimization.\n\nEnsure material continuity across in-house and outsourced manufacturing. This includes determining order quantities and driving inventory accuracy with manufacturing and production teams.\n\nDevelop multi-source strategies for critical and allocation-sensitive components (including high-performance compute) and proactively mitigate geopolitical and single-source risks.\n\nNegotiate pricing, lead times, allocation, and commercial agreements to meet aggressive cost, quality, and production targets.\n\nLead the transition from prototype and in-house manufacturing toward contract manufacturing, including CM selection, qualification, onboarding, and operational scaling.\n\nSupport NPI and production ramp activities with suppliers and manufacturing partners across Asia Pacific and other global regions.\n\nWhat we hope you'll bring\nBachelor's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Business, Operations, or a related field (it is okay if you have an MBA)\n\n5+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, or supply chain management for hardware products.\n\nProven track record taking hardware products from prototype through production ramp at scale and either developing a new supply chain or moving it to a new geography.\n\nDirect experience sourcing electromechanical components, PCBAs, and high-performance compute systems, as well as motors, actuators, gearboxes, sensors, and mechanical assemblies.\n\nDemonstrated success negotiating pricing, lead times, allocation, and commercial agreements to meet aggressive cost, quality, and production targets.\n\nStrong quantitative and analytical skills: should-cost and BOM cost modeling, spend analysis, supplier financial research, and cost / capacity scenario analysis and benchmarking.\n\nStrong understanding of MRP/ERP systems, inventory planning, and material continuity across in-house and outsourced manufacturing. Familiarity with NPI, DFM/DFA, and manufacturing scale-up workflows.\n\nExperience sourcing constrained or allocation-sensitive components (compute, motors, etc)\n\nSuperb communication and cross-functional relationship-building; ability to influence and drive projects without direct authority.\n\nComfortable operating in a fast-moving, high-ownership environment, with willingness to travel internationally (primarily Asia Pacific).\n\nPursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4204,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Supply Chain","Robotics AI","Foundation Models","AI Research Labs"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-06T02:27:12Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":18,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.508,"p_room":0.36,"age_days":86,"expected_fill_days":55,"reasons":["conf:2","stale_co","velocity","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-29T05:49:05Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/physical-intelligence-supply-chain-lead","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/physical-intelligence-supply-chain-lead.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-29T09:52:44Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":14969,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-30T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":48436},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=48436"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fphysical-intelligence-supply-chain-lead"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fphysical-intelligence-supply-chain-lead"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fphysical-intelligence-supply-chain-lead"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/physical-intelligence-supply-chain-lead\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fphysical-intelligence-supply-chain-lead"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":413913}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"pi.website","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":413913},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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