Supply Chain Manager

American Turbines; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

American Turbines in San Francisco is seeking a Supply Chain Manager to accelerate procurement for its first machines. You will sit with engineers, find and qualify suppliers, negotiate lead times and pricing, and manage purchasing and delivery against the build schedule.

By 2027 you will help scale to rate manufacturing, building the procurement system, supplier quality, incoming inspection, inventory and logistics, and you will hire the team that runs it.

Qualifications

• Sourced precision hardware: aerospace, turbomachinery, EV, or adjacent sectors.
• Read drawings and explain supplier late parts with specifics.
• Negotiated with suppliers and secured difficult deals.
• Experience moving products from prototype purchasing to rate production.
• Know when faster but expensive options are justified or not.

Responsibilities

• Find and qualify suppliers in a timely manner to meet the build schedule.
• Negotiate lead times and pricing with suppliers.
• Manage purchasing and delivery against the production plan.
• Collaborate with engineers as part of the early American Turbines team.
• Build the procurement system for rate manufacturing: supplier quality, incoming inspection, inventory, and logistics.
• Hire and lead the procurement team as the company scales.

Skills

Sourcing hardware

Supplier negotiation

Procurement planning

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 Supply Chain Manager 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.