Strategic Sourcing Specialist

At Leo Labs, 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, Leo Labs 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.

Leo Labs is hiring a Strategic Sourcing Specialist on the Radar Supply Chain Management team to lead complex sourcing and subcontracting activities supporting U.S. Government-funded and other contract-driven programs. This role will translate program and contractual requirements into supplier actions from intake and competitive sourcing through negotiation, award, administration, and closeout.

This role will work closely with the Strategic Sourcing Manager, Legal, Engineering, Manufacturing, Finance, Security, and other Supply Chain partners. The Strategic Sourcing Specialist will own assigned strategic sourcing and subcontract actions, including supplier evaluations, negotiations, flow-down coordination, and audit-ready procurement documentation.

The ideal candidate has strategic sourcing, procurement, or subcontracting experience in aerospace, defense, space, electronics, or another highly regulated environment, with working knowledge of FAR/DFARS requirements, supplier terms, price analysis, source-selection documentation, and supplier management.

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

• Own strategic sourcing and subcontracting activities for assigned suppliers and program requirements from intake through solicitation, evaluation, negotiation, award, administration, and closeout. Partner with Engineering, Legal, Security, Finance, and Supply Chain stakeholders to translate contractual, technical, schedule, and compliance requirements into supplier sourcing and award actions.
• Lead RFQ/RFPs, supplier evaluations, source-selection recommendations, cost and price analysis, and negotiations covering pricing, lead times, payment terms, delivery, statements of work, and commercial terms.
• Prepare and administer purchase orders, subcontracts, amendments, and related supplier agreements in accordance with internal approvals, sourcing strategies, and applicable contract requirements.
• Coordinate supplier reviews of FAR/DFARS flow-downs, domestic sourcing requirements, DPAS, ITAR/export controls, CUI or cybersecurity requirements, representations and certifications, security obligations, and other program-specific terms.
• Maintain organized, audit-ready procurement files documenting competition, source selection, price reasonableness, negotiations, approvals, supplier acknowledgements, and required compliance records, including DPAS documentation where applicable.
• Manage supplier commercial and contractual performance, including cost, schedule, deliverables, change management, terms-and-conditions issues, risk escalation, and recovery actions.
• Support proposal and program planning with supplier quotations, lead-time validation, commercial assumptions, and sourcing or compliance risk inputs.
• Improve sourcing and subcontracting processes, templates, documentation standards, and stakeholder guidance as program…