Strategic Sourcing Lead, Hardware & Semiconductors

Fab2; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance

Paid Time Off

Visa Sponsorship

Life and Disability Insurance

Paid Parental Leave

401(k) retirement plan

Weekly Learning & Development

Commuter Benefits

Office lunches and meals

Job summary

fab2, an early-stage hardware startup with a San Francisco lab, is seeking a hands-on Sourcing Manager in Austin to own the supply base for semiconductor fabs, manage supplier negotiation, MRP execution, and shortage recovery across hardware, electronics, and raw materials.

You will work with production and engineering to drive design for manufacturability, set stocking policies, and ensure on-time builds, while evaluating suppliers, running make-vs-buy analyses, and navigating export controls.

Qualifications

• 5+ years sourcing, procurement, or material planning for physical products.
• MRP execution in a production ERP: demand planning, PO placement, shortage recovery.
• Supplier negotiation and should-cost analysis.
• Sourcing across machined parts, electronics, and raw materials.
• Material planning under rapid design change: revision cut-ins, obsolescence.

Responsibilities

• Own material planning for high‑mix assemblies under rapid design iteration, balancing obsolescence risk against continuity of supply.
• Preserve R&D’s freedom to source fast and creatively while bringing rigor and continuity of supply as we scale into production.
• Be the creative tension in our push toward zero vendors. Run make‑versus‑buy analysis, know what a part should cost and who can supply it, and call it when buying beats our in‑house capability today.
• Judge suppliers in person. Walk their floors, look at their machines, and form your own view of what they can actually make.
• Identify single‑sourced parts; qualify second sources where the risk is unacceptable.
• Buy long‑lead material ahead of design release; execute last‑time buys before end‑of‑life.
• Set stocking policy and own any resulting excess and obsolescence.
• Own purchase orders: confirm dates, expedite late lines.
• Manage inbound freight, customs, and tariff exposure.
• Ensure our production work centers are always clear‑to‑build on time.
• Represent sourcing in the development of our in‑house manufacturing software. Draft the specifications and prototype the tools yourself.
• Introduce design changes to the line in a disciplined fashion. Ensure new revisions cut in cleanly as we finish past configurations.
• Score suppliers on delivery, quality, and cost over time.
• Interpret contract terms, including their fiscal and legal implications, and work with Business Operations to revise anything that puts the company at risk.
• Support compliance with applicable U.S. export control laws and regulations in all sourcing and supplier engagement activities.

Skills

Sourcing

Procurement

Material planning

Negotiation

MRP execution

Part cost knowledge

Supplier evaluation

Tools

SQL

Go

Postgres

TypeScript/React

REST

Job description

fab2, an early-stage hardware startup with a San Francisco lab, is seeking a hands-on Sourcing Manager in Austin to own the supply base for semiconductor fabs, manage supplier negotiation, MRP execution, and shortage recovery across hardware, electronics, and raw materials.

You will work with production and engineering to drive design for manufacturability, set stocking policies, and ensure on-time builds, while evaluating suppliers, running make-vs-buy analyses, and navigating export controls.