Technical Buyer

We’re a team of passionate engineers dedicated to advancing aerospace.

We’re generalists with specialist depth, united by a flat structure and a shared obsession with building things that work well. We move fast, stay pragmatic, and let engineering excellence speak louder than hierarchy.

If this sounds like how you operate, check out our job openings below.

Full time

Executive Operations

• $155K – $185K

ABOUT US:

Astro Mechanica is a vertically integrated aerospace company building a faster, more connected future. Our mission is to democratize high-speed flight by making supersonic travel flexible, accessible, and sustainable. We believe that rapid, on-demand, point-to-point global mobility will become the new standard for moving people and goods across the planet. To achieve this, we are integrating our advanced airframe and engine technologies—which include Duality™, our proprietary dual-use propulsion system—with a new flight operations model to make supersonic transport as efficient and economical as commercial air travel is today.

In the near term, we are developing adaptable, high-speed systems to close aircraft performance gaps for the United States government.

WHO WE ARE:

We’re a team of passionate engineers dedicated to advancing aerospace. We’re generalists with specialist depth, united by a flat structure and a shared obsession with building things that work well. We move fast, stay pragmatic, and let engineering excellence speak louder than hierarchy.

We’re seeking a Procurement Associate / Technical Buyer who will move fast to get critical parts, materials, equipment, and services into the hands of our prototyping, testing, propulsion, and manufacturing teams. You are highly organized, detail-oriented, and execution-driven. You thrive in a fast-paced hardware environment with many moving parts. You are comfortable chasing suppliers, managing dozens of open threads, and creating the systems needed to make sure nothing falls through the cracks.

You care deeply about schedule, follow-through, and clear communication. This is a hands-on tactical procurement role supporting the development, testing, and buildout of complex aerospace and industrial systems.

As an early team member, you’ll drive our procurement and vendor operations, with the opportunity to grow into broader responsibilities across the supply chain team.

Specifically, you will:

Root out demand signals across engineering, prototyping, testing, propulsion, and manufacturing teams to identify what needs to be purchased before it becomes a blocker

Take parts and materials from early engineering conversations through vendor prospecting, quoting, negotiation, order placement, supplier follow-up, delivery tracking, and receipt

Source piece parts, machined components, fabricated parts, hardware, tooling, test equipment, lab supplies, and other materials needed to support fast-moving technical teams

Drive supplier schedule execution by maintaining regular check-ins, confirming lead times, escalating risks, and pushing vendors to deliver on time

Create and maintain detailed procurement trackers covering open requests, RFQs, quotes, POs, supplier commitments, delivery dates, risks, and status updates

Partner closely with engineering and manufacturing to clarify requirements, drawings, specifications, quantities, revisions, acceptable substitutes, and delivery priorities

Build and manage relationships with critical suppliers, manufacturers, and service providers to ensure reliability and quality

Build our vendor network by vetting and qualifying new and existing vendors

Anticipate risks in the supply chain and design contingency plans to mitigate disruptions

3+ years of experience in procurement, purchasing, supply chain, operations, production control, manufacturing, or vendor coordination in a hardware environment

Strong bias toward action; you move quickly, follow up relentlessly, and know how to unblock teams under schedule pressure

Exceptional organization skills, with the ability to track many parts, suppliers, quotes, purchase orders, delivery…