# Senior Staff Engineer, Supply Chain (R6213)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: Seattle, Washington
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full Time Employee
**Salary**: USD 210,000-310,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Shield AI is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Supplier Development Engineer to join their 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.

## 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

## Requirements

- 10 plus years of supply chain, manufacturing engineering, process engineering,

- CAD (SolidWorks, NX, CATIA, etc.)

- Excel / data analysis

- PLM or ERP systems

- Travel up to 50% including internationally

- Can read drawings + GD&T confidently

- Understand machining/welding/forming processes

- Led root cause investigations (8D, 5 Whys)

- Worked with suppliers or production lines

## Skills

### Required
- CAD
- Excel
- data analysis
- PLM
- ERP systems
- GD&T
- machining
- welding
- forming processes
- root cause investigations

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