Supply Chain & logistics Executive

About The Role:

As a Supply Chain Executive at CynLr, you will be responsible for building and orchestrating the ecosystem that enables this technology to exist at scale. You will play a key role in shaping make-vs-buy decisions, managing lead times and risks across geographies, and designing supply chain strategies that support rapid experimentation as well as production readiness. In a system where hardware, sensors, compute, and mechanics are tightly coupled, your ability to understand context, anticipate constraints, and align suppliers with CynLr's vision is critical to transforming breakthrough research into deployable products.

Key Responsibilities

1. Act as a coordination layer between CynLr s engineering, operations, and finance teams and external vendors to ensure timely, accurate, and context-aware material flow.
2. Support planning and execution of domestic and international logistics, including shipment planning, documentation, customs coordination, and end-to-end tracking.
3. Assist in evaluating shipping and sourcing options by comparing cost, lead time, risk, and operational impact.
4. Maintain visibility into inventory across prototypes, demos, and production builds, proactively flag shortages, excesses, or critical dependencies.
5. Support vendor onboarding, basic evaluations, and ongoing follow-ups on pricing, lead times, and quality expectations.
6. Assist in tracking supply-chain performance (cost, lead time, reliability) and contribute to improving workflows, SOPs, and MIS dashboards.
7. Support Procure-to-Pay activities, including purchase requests, PO follow-ups, invoice verification, and coordination with finance for closures.
8. Help document assumptions, constraints, and learnings from sourcing and logistics activities to enable repeatability and scale.

This role requires curiosity, structured thinking, and the ability to connect engineering intent with real-world supply-chain execution.

Team Structure

The Operations team acts as a cross-functional enablement layer that supports Engineering, Product, and Business teams in executing reliably and at scale. The team comprises Supply Chain, Logistics, Procurement, Finance Operations, and Program Coordination functions.

Each Operations team member owns a primary function while also serving as a passive contributor to other workflows, ensuring continuity across sourcing, movement, costing, and execution. The team works closely with internal stakeholders and external partners to translate technical and business intent into timely, executable operations.

Supply Chain Operations anchor this structure by ensuring material readiness, vendor alignment, inventory visibility, and logistics planning across geographies. By balancing cost, lead time, and risk, the supply chain function anticipates constraints early and enables both rapid experimentation and reliable deployment.

Operations break execution into reusable processes and guides teams through dependencies and trade-offs, allowing CynLr to move fast without losing control.

What You'll Need to Do This Well

• End-to-end hardware supply chain fundamentals in a startup environment: sourcing, procurement, logistics, inventory, and vendor coordination under low volumes and frequent design changes.
• Cost structures of complex hardware systems, including BOM breakdowns, landed cost, logistics, duties, taxes, and the impact of small batch sizes.
• Lead-time and risk drivers when sourcing specialized components across multiple geographies, and how these affect R&D, demos, and customer commitments.
• Basics of international logistics relevant to hardware startups: air vs sea trade-offs, customs clearance, Carnet/temporary imports, Incoterms, and documentation.
• Using Excel and structured trackers to model scenarios, compare options, and support fast, context-driven decisions.

Experience That Will Accelerate You

• Working with non-traditional or early-stage suppliers where specifications, volumes, and processes are still evolving.
• Supporting rapid prototyping and demo builds, including short-notice sourcing, partial shipments, and material substitutions.
• Vendor evaluation and performance tracking in environments with limited historical data and high uncertainty.
• Procure-to-Pay workflows in a startup setup, including PO management, invoice tracking, and close coordination with finance under tight timelines.
• Translating engineering intent and experimental requirements into practical sourcing, inventory, and logistics plans.

What will you do

• You will translate CynLr's engineering intent into executable supply-chain reality.
• You will break down complex system requirements into sourcing, logistics, inventory, and cost decisions that enable rapid experimentation and reliable delivery. You will work closely with engineering teams to understand evolving designs and identify the right vendors, materials, and logistics paths that balance speed, cost, and risk.
• You will actively model and compare supply chain options and anticipate constraints. As CynLr builds hardware systems with hundreds of components sourced globally, your role is to ensure that material availability never becomes the bottleneck to innovation.

How will you do it

• Though focused on supply chain execution, the role is inherently entrepreneurial, with all the advantages and challenges of a deep-tech hardware startup. Designs will evolve quickly, volumes will be small and uncertain, and standard playbooks will often not apply.
• You will participate actively in building and refining supply-chain processes, trackers, and decision frameworks as the product and organization evolve. You will have the autonomy to rethink how materials are sourced, moved, and tracked, with outcomes reviewed through the lens of execution quality, continuity, and system-level trade-offs.
• The role demands strong context building, structured thinking, and comfort with ambiguity, enabling CynLr to move fast without losing operational control.

About CynLr

Just like a baby's brain, CynLr's Visual Intelligence stack makes Robots to instinctively see & pick any object under any ambience, without any training. (a demo video link).

Today, a robot that can fit a screw into a nut without slipping a thread, doesn't exist. Imagine what it would take for a robot to assemble a Smartphone or a car by putting together 1000s of parts with varied shapes and weights, all in random orientations. Thus, factories become complex, needing heavy customization of their environment.

CynLr-enabled visual robots intuitively learn to handle even unknown objects, on-the-fly, eliminating the need for rigid fixtures, pre-training, or environment customization. This enables an universal alternative to custom automation thus simplifying factory lines into modular LEGO-like micro-factories that can be rapidly reconfigured as products change.

At the core of CynLr lies a fundamentally new approach to machine vision. Unlike conventional vision systems that rely on image recognition and heuristics, CynLr s Vision and ML stacks are deeply inspired by neuroscience, modelling how biological vision understands shape, geometry, and interaction rather than appearance alone. To support this, CynLr builds its hardware, sensors, compute pipelines, and learning stacks from scratch, tightly coupling perception, decision-making, and action.

This integration allows CynLr to operate in conditions that defeat traditional automation: variable lighting, cluttered environments, unknown objects, and high precision manipulation, unlocking automation use cases that have remained unsolved for decades. By rethinking vision as an intelligent, adaptive sense rather than a static tool, CynLr is redefining how robots perceive, reason, and interact with the physical world.

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