Buyer

LeoLabs, Inc. · Menlo Park, CA

  • Senior
  • Full-time
  • Posted 2026-09-10
  • Confirmed live on 25 September 2026

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Job description

Why LeoLabs?

At LeoLabs, we're building the living map of activity in space. Through our proprietary global radar network and AI-enabled analytics platform, we collect millions of measurements daily on more than 25,000 objects in low Earth orbit (LEO). Our radar-powered intelligence protects billions in assets, monitors adversarial behavior, and ensures safe operations for commercial and government missions.

We're not just building technology, we are redefining global security, safety, and transparency in space. As orbital activity accelerates and threats grow more complex, LeoLabs is a trusted partner for Space Domain Awareness, Space Traffic Management, and Satellite Operations for top-tier space operators and allied defense organizations.

If you're looking to work on mission-critical challenges at the forefront of aerospace, national security, and AI, your impact starts here.

LeoLabs is hiring a Buyer on the Radar Supply Chain Management team to own day-to-day purchasing execution for recurring production demand, released BOM requirements, and program-critical materials supporting advanced radar and sensing systems. This role will translate released BOMs, MRP requirements, production schedules, approved requisitions, and program priorities into timely purchasing actions that ensure material availability for manufacturing, integration, test, and deployment commitments.

As part of the Radar Supply Chain organization, this role will work closely with Strategic Sourcing, Supply Planning, Inventory, Manufacturing, and Engineering to execute production purchases within established sourcing strategies and the approved supply base. The Buyer will own purchase-order execution, MRP action management, supplier commitments, shortage recovery, cost and lead-time negotiations, and purchasing risks that require experienced judgment, urgency, and disciplined follow-through.

The ideal candidate has substantial direct-material procurement experience supporting production or manufacturing environments and is comfortable managing high-mix, low-volume programs with long lead times, shifting priorities, and production-critical material requirements.. They should bring strong commercial judgment, ERP/MRP discipline, negotiation skills, and experience managing production-critical suppliers and purchase commitments.

This is a full-time hybrid role based in Menlo Park, CA.

Responsibilities

• Own production purchasing execution for assigned suppliers, commodities, and BOM requirements from approved demand through receipt and PO closeout, with accountability for material availability, supplier commitments, cost, and delivery performance.

• Review MRP action messages, released BOM requirements, approved requisitions, shortage reports, and production priorities and execute required purchase, release, expedite, de-expedite, reschedule, cancellation, and quantity-change actions.

• Execute RFQs, quote evaluations, cost and price analysis, and commercial negotiations for pricing, lead times, MOQs, payment terms, NCNR exposure, and delivery requirements within established sourcing strategies.

• Manage the full purchase order lifecycle, including order placement, supplier acknowledgements, commit-date validation, change orders, partial shipments, delivery tracking, expedites, de-expedites, recovery actions, receipt, and closeout.

• Partner with Supply Planning, Inventory, Manufacturing, and Engineering to resolve shortages, engineering changes, part revisions, obsolescence, quality holds, substitutions, and other production constraints while minimizing excess, obsolete, and nonconforming inventory exposure.

• Monitor supplier delivery, purchase price variance, open commitments, lead-time risk, capacity constraints, allocations, and sole-source exposure; establish recovery plans and escalate risks before they impact production.

• Maintain accurate supplier commitments and purchasing data in the ERP system, including pricing, quantities, promise dates, lead times, revisions, and order status, and improve procurement workflows and controls as production volume and program complexity increase.

• Own supplier recovery for past-due and production-short material, including escalation, alternate delivery plans, partial shipments, and corrective actions necessary to protect build schedules.

• Represent Procurement in production-readiness, shortage, MRP, and material-review meetings and communicate supplier constraints, recovery dates, and purchasing risks to cross-functional stakeholders.

• Coordinate purchasing actions associated with engineering changes, substitutions, and part obsolescence to prevent invalid demand from converting into purchase commitments and to manage affected open orders.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, Business, Operations, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

• 5+ years of progressive purchasing, procurement, or buying experience suppor

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