Are you ready to join a dynamic, fast-growing company and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of mobility? At Peter Park, we are seeking a (Lead) IoT Procurement Engineer (m/f/d) to collaborate with our team in advancing our diverse IoT product landscape. Your expertise will be instrumental in driving and refining our hardware strategy.
Activities
- IoT & Embedded Systems Development: Design, build, and integrate IoT devices for commercial or industrial applications, centered around vision-based automated license plate recognition (ALPR) or customer interaction (digital signage, digital access control systems), ensuring seamless performance and reliability.
- Supplier sourcing & qualification: Identify, evaluate and onboard manufacturers and component suppliers worldwide.
- Collaborative Development: Work closely with other engineers and stakeholders to maintain high standards of quality and innovation.
- Project Management: Oversee and manage the entire lifecycle of IoT projects, from initial concept through to successful delivery, ensuring timelines and objectives are met..
- RFQs & cost analysis: Run RFQs, compare quotations on technical fit and total landed cost, and drive cost down across the BOM.
- Negotiation: Negotiate price, volume tiers, MOQ, payment terms and lead times.
- Technical specifications: Turn engineering and operations requirements into clear supplier specs, and review drawings and samples with the IoT teams.
- Supplier quality: Define acceptance criteria, manage sample and pilot orders, and make sure production matches the approved design.
- Order & supply management: Place and track orders, and manage production schedules, shipping and customs.
- Stakeholder alignment: Keep engineering, operations, warehouse and finance aligned on hardware decisions.
- Outcome Ownership: Own the outcomes of our hardware decisions end to end: availability, cost, quality and field reliability. Done means the hardware runs stably on customer sites, not that the order went out.
- Domain Stewardship: Own our hardware portfolio and supplier base. Anticipate end-of-life and supply risks early and build second sources before they become urgent.
- Technical Leadership: Act as technical lead for our hardware initiatives and make the call on technical fit, cost and risk.
- Team Enablement: Make others better at hardware decisions through coaching, playbooks and documentation, so the team can decide well without you.
Requirements
- You hold a degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, or a comparable field.
- You have 6+ years of experience in IoT, embedded or hardware engineering, of which at least 3 years in supplier sourcing or supplier management.
- You have a proven track record as technical lead for cross-functional hardware projects.
- You have experience in software development for edge computing devices.
- You are familiar with simulation tools and test procedures to validate hardware designs.
- You are a creative problem solver who applies innovative approaches to hardware development.
- You work with precision and attention to detail.
- You have outstanding diagnostic and troubleshooting skills.
- You are fluent in English (Chinese is a big plus, German is a plus)
Application Process
- Initial Contact: We’ll get back to you within 48 hours.
- HR Interview: Discuss your experience and expectations with our HR team.
- Live Assessment: Complete a technical exercise designed to challenge you with scenarios beyond your usual experience.
- Tech Challenge: Tackle a problem in a familiar context to demonstrate your technical skills and approach.
- Leadership Conversation: Dive deeper into the role and expectations with a member of our technical leadership.
- On-Site Meeting: Visit our Munich office, meet more of the team, and experience our culture firsthand.