Laser & Optical Systems Buyer – Technical & Commercial

QuEra Computing, Inc.; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

QuEra Computing, Inc. in Boston, MA, seeks a Technical Buyer for Laser and Optical Systems to manage the optics vendor base across global sites.

You will balance technical and commercial needs, read specifications, and drive supplier accountability for high-end laser components and assemblies. Responsibilities include turning specifications into RFQs, maintaining supplier data, coordinating acceptance and testing, and handling RMAs.

Qualifications

• Degree in a science or engineering field, or equivalent hands-on technical training in technical sales, optical engineering or optics quality management.
• Two or more years working hands-on with lasers or optical systems, in a lab, field service, applications engineering, or technical sales role.
• Two or more years in supplier-facing commercial work in a hardware environment.
• Ability to read a technical specification and hold a supplier accountable to it.
• Experience with ERP or QMS systems.
• Rigorous documentation habits: purchase records, serial numbers, and configuration states recorded as a matter of course.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate vendor competencies based on QuEra's R&D specifications and capacity.
• Turn approved specifications into quotable requests; collect and normalize quotations for like-for-like comparison across development cost, lead time, and warranty.
• Understand the vendors ability to both delivery quality product and scale capacity as QuEra moves towards a production environment.
• Develop and Maintain an RFI / RFP / RFQ for new and existing vendors in a dynamic R&D environment.
• Maintain the qualified supplier list by category and track supplier delivery and quality performance
• Act as the intermediary for the Optics and Laser Systems Team and G&A for all high dollar procurements. Ensure that all technical and administrative details have been completed before contracts and purchase orders are executed.
• Work with internal stakeholders on material delivery plan and hold vendors accountable to that plan.
• Coordinate factory acceptance, witness testing, pre-shipment documentation, and incoming quality inspection.
• Own Vendor RMAs and systematize processes that drive down their likelihood of reoccurring.

Skills

Supplier management

Optics knowledge

Technical reading of specs

Contract & PO management

Quality systems (ERP/QMS)

Education

Science/Engineering degree

Tools

ERP systems

QMS

Export compliance

Job description

QuEra Computing, Inc. in Boston, MA, seeks a Technical Buyer for Laser and Optical Systems to manage the optics vendor base across global sites.

You will balance technical and commercial needs, read specifications, and drive supplier accountability for high-end laser components and assemblies. Responsibilities include turning specifications into RFQs, maintaining supplier data, coordinating acceptance and testing, and handling RMAs.