A productized supplier qualification and second-source readiness service for hardware teams scaling complex products.
Added Jul 6, 2026
Hardware companies are hiring across sourcing, supplier development, component engineering, and program management to keep critical BOM items from blocking production. The repeated pain is not generic procurement; it is the technical workflow of matching components to capable suppliers, validating manufacturability, qualifying alternate sources, and managing risk from NPI through rate production. Teams need supplier capability assessments, PPAP/APQP execution, BOM risk reviews, and second-source qualification before shortages, obsolescence, or poor supplier performance delay launches.
Start as a managed technical sourcing and supplier qualification service for aerospace, robotics, energy storage, semiconductor equipment, and advanced electronics companies. The first offer is a fixed-scope critical BOM risk sprint: review the customer's BOM, identify sole-source and long-lead parts, assess supplier capability, create an approved vendor and second-source plan, and manage the first PPAP or qualification packet for the highest-risk parts. Over time, the service can become a repeatable operating system with templates, supplier scorecards, qualification checklists, and a lightweight portal for BOM risk tracking, but the initial value is expert execution.
Advanced hardware companies are scaling new products while supply chains remain exposed to long lead times, obsolescence, tariffs, geopolitical risk, and scarce supplier capacity. Job signals show firms are adding specialized roles because engineering, sourcing, and supplier quality decisions now have to be coordinated earlier in product development.
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For critical components, partner with engineering to design, develop, qualify, and implement functional test and performance validation processes at suppliers. Partner with development engineering, product quality engineering, global strategic sourcing and program management to deliver predictable supply to the development programs, production programs, and manage exceptions/containments/deviations for supplier technical performance. Drive supplier quality readiness by analyzing key and critical characteristics for drawings and supplier specifications, develop measurement systems, and supplier qualification activities (PPAP, FAIR, Audit, inspection development, etc).
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Insightfully designed manufacturing processes and fully qualified supplier relationships are critical elements in bringing tightly integrated, sophisticated electromechanical systems to major markets. As a member of Skydio’s Supplier Quality Engineering team, you’ll work with our Product Design, Manufacturing, Manufacturing Design, Supply Chain, and Quality teams and interface with current and potential suppliers to strengthen Skydio’s supplier base to meet our increasing production volume & quality needs.
This role is focused on supplier industrialization, mechanical manufacturing process excellence, equipment standardization, Bill of Equipment (BOE) development, yield improvement, and cost optimization for complex instrumentation and manufacturing platforms. The position will operate with a high degree of ownership across product transfers, supplier readiness, and sustained operational performance.
Zipline is expanding its life-saving technology's reach from tens to hundreds of millions of people. To achieve this, we require a Supplier Industrialization Engineer (SIE) with extensive PCBA knowledge to spearhead supplier quality, development, and manufacturing excellence. You will play a crucial role in supplier selection, qualification, process control, and automation, collaborating closely with Engineering, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing teams.
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