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