Head of Supply Chain

American Turbines; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

American Turbines in San Francisco is building modular gas turbines for distributed power. We are seeking a Head of Supply Chain to accelerate sourcing, lead times, and delivery for our first machines.

You will sit with the engineers, find suppliers, negotiate lead times and pricing, and align purchasing with the build schedule. By 2027 you’ll lead rate manufacturing procurement and hire the team.

Qualifications

• Experience sourcing precision hardware in aerospace, turbomachinery, EV, or adjacent sectors.
• Ability to read drawings and explain supplier delays.
• Proven track record negotiating with suppliers.
• Experience moving from prototype purchasing to rate production.

Responsibilities

• Find and qualify suppliers; negotiate lead times and pricing; manage purchasing and delivery against the build schedule.
• Collaborate with engineers and join early team to scale operations.
• Build procurement system for rate manufacturing by 2027 and hire the team.

Skills

Supply chain management

Supplier negotiation

Procurement

Reading drawings

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.