Head of Supply Chain

The role

The Head of Supply Chain will build the supply chain foundation to move from prototype retrofit operations to industrial-scale AV fleet deployment. This person owns the operational backbone for vehicle hardware readiness including procurement, supplier management, logistics, and inventory control.

What you will do

• Own procurement for sensors, compute, storage, harnesses, racks, brackets, power components, spare parts, and consumables.
• Build the supply plan to support monthly vehicle ramp targets.
• Negotiate supplier pricing, lead times, warranty terms, MSAs, and volume commitments.
• Implement VIN-specific kitting.
• Build inventory control and serialized tracking.
• Manage inbound logistics, supplier delivery performance, inter-city shipments, and finished-vehicle logistics support.
• Own warranty/RMA process, defective-part quarantine, supplier scorecards, and recovery plans.
• Partner with Hardware Ops and QA to identify batch defects, part failures, and line-stopper issues.
• Implement lightweight ERP / asset tracking.

Required qualifications

• 8–12+ years in supply chain, procurement, logistics, hardware operations, automotive, robotics, electronics, fleet, or manufacturing.
• Experience managing complex hardware BOMs and serialized inventory.
• Strong vendor negotiation and supplier management experience.
• Experience building inventory, kitting, warehouse, or asset-control systems from scratch.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-moving, high-growth startup environment.
• Strong cross-functional execution with engineering, production, QA, finance, and field ops.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, and Life Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account / Health Savings Account Options
• 401(k)
• Equity
• Sick Time, Unlimited Flexible Time Off, and Paid Holidays
• Paid Parental Leave
• Pre-Tax Commuter Benefit Plan
• Team lunch in our SoMa office every Tuesday and Thursday

About the company

Atoms builds Physical AI—real-world robots for the industries that move civilization forward, starting with food, mining, and transport. They are roboticists, engineers, operators, and builders.