Strategic Sourcing Lead

About the Company

At Skild AI, we are building the world's first general purpose robotic intelligence that is robust and adapts to unseen scenarios without failing. We believe massive scale through data-driven machine learning is the key to unlocking these capabilities for the widespread deployment of robots within society.

Responsibilities

• Own sourcing strategy and supplier execution across the full robot BOM, including actuators, motors, sensors, compute modules, PCBAs, harnessing, and mechanical assemblies
• Lead the transition from prototype and in-house manufacturing toward contract manufacturing, including CM selection, qualification, onboarding, and operational scaling
• Negotiate pricing, lead times, allocation, and commercial agreements to support aggressive cost, quality, and production targets
• Build and expand strategic supplier relationships to unlock pricing advantages, engineering support, and supply continuity
• Partner closely with mechanical, electrical, firmware, and compute engineering teams to drive design for manufacturability, supply chain resilience, and cost optimization
• Develop multi-source strategies for critical components and proactively mitigate allocation, geopolitical, and single-source risks
• Own BOM cost targets as the platform scales from pilot builds to large-scale deployment
• Support NPI and production ramp activities with suppliers and manufacturing partners across Asia Pacific and other global regions
• Establish sourcing processes, metrics, and supplier performance management frameworks

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, or supply chain management for hardware products
• Proven track record taking hardware products from prototype through production ramp at scale
• Direct experience with electromechanical components, PCBAs, and high-performance compute systems
• Experience transitioning products from in-house builds to contract manufacturing
• Strong supplier relationships across motors, actuators, sensors, PCBAs, compute, or robotics hardware ecosystems
• Demonstrated success negotiating pricing, lead times, allocation, and commercial agreements
• Experience in robotics, warehouse automation, autonomous systems, drones, or industrial automation
• Familiarity with NPI, DFM/DFA, and manufacturing scale-up workflows
• Experience sourcing constrained compute platforms (e.g. NVIDIA, Qualcomm, AMD)
• Ability to travel internationally, primarily across Asia Pacific