Senior Staff Engineer, Supply Chain (R6485)

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Staff Engineer to join Shield AI's supply chain team, focusing on machined parts. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in supplier development, quality engineering, production process improvement, and supply chain management within the aerospace industry.

This role is critical in enhancing supplier performance by solving supplier challenges that impact quality, on-time delivery, and scaling, supporting the onboarding of suppliers to new designs, and delivering on our mission to deliver affordable and autonomous mass at scale. This role has extensive travel to Europe to develop and create the supply base in the region.

Responsibilities

• Process Improvement: Audit and embed into core supplier processes to understand improvement opportunities to cost, lead-times, and quality.
• Quality Assurance: Conduct on-site audits to root cause supplier quality issues or performance challenges.
• Supplier Development: Assess and improve supplier capabilities, ensuring alignment with engineering and operational priorities.
• Engineering Technical Support: Provide technical guidance to suppliers on part specifications, manufacturing processes and standards, and quality measures.
• Supplier Performance Monitoring: Track and analyze supplier performance metrics, including delivery, quality, and cost. Implement corrective actions and continuous improvement plans as necessary.
• Risk Management: Identify and mitigate risks within the supply chain to ensure uninterrupted production and delivery of components.
• New Product Introduction (NPI): Support the introduction of new products by ensuring suppliers meet all quality and delivery requirements during the development phase.

Required qualifications:

• 10 plus years of supply chain, manufacturing, process & mechanical engineering.
• CAD (SolidWorks, NX, CATIA, etc.).
• Excel / data analysis.
• PLM or ERP systems.
• Travel up to 75% including international.
• Can read drawings + GD&T confidently.
• Understand machining/welding/forming processes.
• Led root cause investigations (8D, 5 Whys).
• Worked with suppliers or production lines.