Head of Supply Chain

American Turbines; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

American Turbines is building modular gas turbines for distributed power. The Head of Supply Chain will accelerate sourcing, procurement, and supplier management to meet aggressive build schedules with engineers from the early team.

You will lead supplier selection, negotiate terms, and establish the procurement system as production scales to thousands of units per year. The role demands hands-on experience moving from prototype purchasing to rate production, with the ability to read drawings,

Qualifications

• Sourced precision hardware for aerospace or turbomachinery (or adjacent).
• Read a drawing and explain to a supplier why a part is late.
• Negotiated with suppliers and secured favorable terms.

Responsibilities

• Find and qualify suppliers in the near term; negotiate lead times and pricing.
• Manage purchasing and delivery against the build schedule; sit with engineers on the early team.

Skills

Sourcing

Supplier negotiation

Procurement

Reading drawings

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

About American Turbines

The power grid was built for a world that no longer exists. Centralized generation, hundred-mile transmission lines, decade-long permitting cycles. Meanwhile, demand is exploding: AI data centers, industrial electrification, remote operations that need megawatts yesterday and can’t wait for utilities to catch up.

American Turbines is designing small modular gas turbines, purpose-built for distributed power generation. Machines designed from a blank sheet to be manufactured at scale, clustered in arrays. Hundreds of units operating in parallel, dynamically matching load like a compute cluster matches demand. We are a seed-stage company backed by the investors behind SpaceX, Boom Supersonic, and Hadrian.

About the Role

The Head of Supply Chain helps our team source materials and get parts in shop asap. Today that means the parts for our first machines, working with machine shops and exploring the many options we can choose. Lead times on these parts set our schedule just as much as engineering does. Your job is to make the supply chain move faster than the design cycle.

Near term, you’ll find and qualify suppliers, negotiate lead times and pricing, and manage purchasing and delivery against the build schedule. You’ll sit with the engineers and join the early team here at American Turbines.

By 2027 the job changes: turbines in production on a rolling assembly. You will build the procurement system for rate manufacturing: supplier quality, incoming inspection, inventory, logistics, and the supplier base to support thousands of units per year. You’ll hire the team that runs it.

What We’re Looking For

You’ve sourced precision hardware: aerospace, turbomachinery, EV, or adjacent. You know how machine shops, foundries, and forge houses actually work, you can read a drawing and tell a supplier exactly why their part is late. You’ve negotiated with suppliers and have won almost impossible deals.

You’ve taken a product from prototype purchasing into rate production and know what breaks in between. You know when the expensive fast option is the cheap one.