Chinese Technical Sourcing Specialist (Hardware)

moss • Full Time • Remote (Hong Kong, China) • 1d ago

About Us

At moss.ag, we build robots to go where humans won't, digitizing the physical outdoor world to make it machine-readable. Starting with tree farms — where a single field holds millions of plants no human has ever fully inventoried. 🌲🤯🌳

We’re a small team of practical engineers with a long-term vision. We focus on real, messy, on-the-ground problems today, while working toward a future where autonomous field robots make harsh outdoor jobs easier and safer.

If our mission aligns with how you work and think, we’d love to learn more about you!

The Role

We are a startup, and this is not a big-company role. You will be our main person on the ground in China. You will work mainly with our Hardware Lead, who handles our engineering from San Francisco and does not speak Chinese, so you are the bridge between our team and every supplier we work with. You may also work with other team members from time to time. As our company grows, you will build and manage a team in China for sourcing, logistics, and engineering support.

The parts you will source cover whole robots and R&D projects we build. This includes machined and fabricated mechanical parts, sheet metal, plastics, cables and harnesses, PCBs and electronic components, sensors, and high-value items like cameras and lidars. Some orders are thousands of small parts for R&D. Some are a handful of expensive precision components where one mistake is very costly.

Your job in one sentence: Find the right parts, at the best quality, delivered to the US as fast as possible.

Minimum Requirements

Experience in technical sourcing, supplier development, and hardware supply chain work, covering mechanical parts as well as electronics
Ability to read and understand BOMs, mechanical drawings, datasheets, and technical specifications
Working knowledge of DFM and DFA
Working knowledge of incoterms and cross-border shipping to the US
Strong written and spoken English; experience working with overseas engineering teams or customers
Extremely detail oriented. Small errors in specs, quotes, or shipments are expensive for us, and we need someone who catches them
Persistent by nature. Comfortable following up with suppliers daily and asking direct questions until you get real answers
Strong ownership, time management, and follow-through
Comfortable working independently and remotely, with scheduled calls across US/China time zones
Willing and able to travel for supplier visits, including trips alongside

What You'll Do

Sourcing and supplier development. Quickly find, evaluate, and maintain a network of qualified suppliers (manufacturers, distributors, traders, assemblers) across mechanical, electronic, and optical categories. Compare them on capability, cost, quality, lead time, and reliability.
Chase production relentlessly. This is a core part of the job. Check in on active orders constantly. Do not wait for suppliers to update you. Find the specific technician or assembly worker responsible for our parts and follow up with them directly. When a schedule slips, push hard to recover it. You should be comfortable consistently raising concerns and working with the vendor teams.
Report back with evidence. Send photos and short written reports to the US team on a regular basis: parts in production, samples, packaging, factory conditions. We make decisions on what you see very quickly, so communication and trust is very important.
Technical coordination and DFM/DFA. Review BOMs, drawings, datasheets, and specs. Confirm parameters, feasibility, and substitutions with suppliers. You should understand design for manufacturing and design for assembly deeply enough to catch problems early, suggest changes that save cost or time, and translate supplier feedback quickly. Ask suppliers lots of questions. If something is unclear, dig until it is clear.
Quality and pre-shipment inspection. Inspect parts before they ship. Build inspection checklists and quality tracking documents. Follow corrective actions through to completion, not just to a promise.
Logistics and shipping. Know incoterms well (EXW, FOB, DAP, DDP, and when each one helps or hurts us). Work with our logistics agents to choose the fastest realistic delivery method to the US for each shipment, and manage the China-side export handover. Speed to our door matters as much as unit price.
Negotiation. Negotiate pricing, MOQ, lead time, and payment terms. Prepare clear quote comparisons so we can decide fast.
Travel and in-person work. Visit suppliers regularly on your own. When our team travels to China, you will travel with them: plan the factory visits, set the schedule, interpret, and help lead negotiations in the room.
Keep good records. Maintain clear documentation of supplier communications, quotes, terms, and open issues. Simple, systematic, and easy for the US side to follow.

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