# Technical Commodity Manager - Robotics

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: San Francisco
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $157K - $196K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186

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## Description

## Compensation

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The salary range for this role is $157K - $196K per year, with additional compensation including equity, performance-related bonuses, and benefits.

Benefits include:

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family

- Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses

- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match

- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents)

- Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees

- 13+ paid company holidays

- Mental health and wellness support

- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage

- Annual learning and development stipend

- Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible

- Relocation support for eligible employees

## About Team

The Robotics team at OpenAI focuses on unlocking general-purpose robotics and advancing toward AGI-level intelligence in dynamic, real-world environments. The team integrates cutting-edge hardware and software to explore various robotic form factors.

## About Role

As a Technical Commodity Manager - Robotics, you will play a crucial role in scaling OpenAI's hardware supply chain. You will work closely with engineers during R&D to source components, qualify vendors, and manage the procurement process. You will also help establish a full supply chain organization, including buyers, global supply managers, and specialists across various categories.

## Responsibilities

- Partner with engineering teams to source components and manage procurement

- Build and manage supplier relationships

- Evaluate quotes, lead times, and vendor capabilities

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including legal, finance, and leadership

- Develop and implement supply chain processes and tools

- Identify and mitigate supply chain risks

## Requirements

- Strong reasoning and analytical abilities

- Solid grounding in supply chain fundamentals

- Comfort with ambiguity and incomplete data

- Direct and clear communication skills

- Experience in the hardware supply chain (exposure to precision machining, gears/mechanical components, EMS, PCBA, electrical/electronic components, contract manufacturing, or JDM relationships is a plus)

- Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related technical field

## What Success Looks Like

Within the first 6 months, you will have:

- Established yourself as a highly responsive and agile partner to engineering and manufacturing teams

- Developed a strong understanding of critical commodities, suppliers, cost drivers, lead times, and manufacturing constraints

- Identified and mitigated high-priority supply risks

- Built strong relationships with existing suppliers and added credible alternatives

- Established a basic operating system for supply chain management

## Skills

### Required
- supply chain management
- procurement
- supplier relationship management
- analytical skills
- communication skills

### Nice to have
- precision machining
- gears/mechanical components
- EMS
- PCBA
- electrical/electronic components
- contract manufacturing
- JDM relationships

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