About the role
You bring the best available components and engineering partners into one coherent personal-computing product. That means being technical enough to know when a supplier's roadmap will not survive contact with our requirements, and commercial enough to build the relationship anyway. We are small, so we will rarely be anyone's largest customer, and the partnerships we get are the ones somebody earned on the merits of the work.
The work
Develop technical relationships with chip, computer, memory, networking and manufacturing companies. Align roadmaps, evaluation access, support and commercial terms with the hardware team. Turn promising discussions into scoped engineering work with owners and acceptance criteria.
What good looks like
In your first 90 days, deliver a partner map, two substantive technical evaluations and one decision-ready collaboration proposal.
Evidence we look for
Bring technical partnership experience and enough systems fluency to understand real integration limits. Show outcomes from relationships you helped build, not only the names of companies you know.
What we need to see
- Technical partnership experience with semiconductor or hardware partners
- Enough systems fluency to understand real integration limits rather than repeating a datasheet
- Outcomes from relationships you helped build, not a list of logos
- You can hold a supplier to a commitment without losing the relationship
Nice to have
- Existing relationships with silicon vendors or ODMs
- An engineering background
- You have negotiated a supply agreement at small volumes
The exercise
Structure a reference-device collaboration where responsibilities for firmware, security patches, warranty and repair must be explicit.
Where and how we work
Customer-facing, so remote-friendly: base yourself in any major US city with good airport connections. Offices in all nine cities if you want one.