Head of Hardware Supply Chain — Scale AV Fleet (Equity)

Atoms; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 223,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Disability Insurance

Life Insurance

401(k)

Equity

Sick Time

Parental Leave

Pre-Tax Commuter Benefit

Team lunch in SoMa

Job summary

Atoms is seeking a Head of Supply Chain to design and lead the operational backbone for our industrial-scale AV fleet. You will own procurement, supplier management, and logistics for hardware, ensuring traceability from PO to deployed vehicle in a fast-growing startup.

The role demands 8–12+ years in relevant fields, strong vendor relationships, and the ability to build inventory and kitting systems from scratch. Based in San Francisco with onsite work expectations.

Qualifications

• 8–12+ years in supply chain, procurement, logistics, hardware operations, automotive, robotics, electronics, fleet, or manufacturing.
• Experience managing complex hardware BOMs and serialized inventory.
• Strong vendor negotiation and supplier management experience.
• Experience building inventory, kitting, warehouse, or asset-control systems from scratch.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-moving, high-growth startup environment.
• Strong cross-functional execution with engineering, production, QA, finance, and field ops.

Responsibilities

• Own procurement for sensors, compute, storage, harnesses, racks, brackets, power components, spare parts, and consumables.
• Build the supply plan to support monthly vehicle ramp targets.
• Negotiate supplier pricing, lead times, warranty terms, MSAs, and volume commitments.
• Implement VIN-specific kitting so every vehicle enters retrofit with a complete, pre-verified kit.
• Build inventory control and serialized tracking across: Supplier PO → Lot → Serial number → VIN → Installer → Calibration result → Warranty/RMA history.
• Manage inbound logistics, supplier delivery performance, inter-city shipments, and finished-vehicle logistics support.
• Own warranty/RMA process, defective-part quarantine, supplier scorecards, and recovery plans.
• Partner with Hardware Ops and QA to identify batch defects, part failures, and line-stopper issues.
• Implement lightweight ERP / asset tracking before spreadsheets break at scale.

Skills

Supply chain management

Procurement

Logistics

Vendor negotiation

Cross-functional execution

Inventory control

Serialized inventory

ERP / asset tracking

Tools

ERP software

Inventory management systems

Job description

Atoms is seeking a Head of Supply Chain to design and lead the operational backbone for our industrial-scale AV fleet. You will own procurement, supplier management, and logistics for hardware, ensuring traceability from PO to deployed vehicle in a fast-growing startup.

The role demands 8–12+ years in relevant fields, strong vendor relationships, and the ability to build inventory and kitting systems from scratch. Based in San Francisco with onsite work expectations.