--- title: 'Supply Chain Manager at nEye.ai' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/supply-chain-manager-neye-ai-santa-clara-181q68wzgw90' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-08' --- # Supply Chain Manager at nEye.ai - **Company:** nEye.ai - **Location:** Santa Clara, CA - **Compensation:** $180k–$230k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2025-12-23 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/neye-systems-inc./611534e4-1c9d-463e-919b-f7937c4cecab ## Job description ## About Us nEye.ai, a well-funded optical switch startup, is poised to revolutionize the future of data centers. nEye’s MEMS-based silicon photonics optical circuit switches (OCS) eliminate critical bottlenecks in AI processing by enabling direct optical connections among thousands of GPUs and memory units. The company's OCS is an ultra-low power consumption, high radix, compact chip-scale design, offering hyperscale data centers enhanced performance, efficiency, and scalability. ## Role Overview This is a foundational, hands-on role responsible for architecting nEye’s end-to-end supply chain. You will own vendor engagement, materials planning, forecasting, inventory, logistics, and act as the business owner for the rollout of critical operational systems (ERP, MES, PLM/ECC). You will work closely with the Operations and Engineering teams to design a supply chain that is resilient, scalable, and deeply integrated with engineering and manufacturing workflows. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a zero-to-one environment and wants to spearhead the supply chain function for a category-creating hardware company. ## Key Responsibilities - Build Supply Chain Function - Design, implement, and scale supply chain processes, workflows, policies, and documentation. - Develop a strategic roadmap for supply chain operations aligned with nEye’s growth and manufacturing ramp. - Establish foundational KPIs, dashboards, and reporting mechanisms for supply chain health. - Systems Leadership - Partner with the Operations Systems lead to define requirements for ERP, MES, and PLM systems. Act as the primary business owner for supply chain data accuracy and process adoption. - Materials Planning & Execution - Develop and maintain demand forecasts, safety stock models, build plans, and long-lead strategies. - Own purchasing, PO management, and cost optimization for prototype and production materials. - Oversee inbound/outbound logistics, warehousing, inventory, and materials traceability. - Proactively identify and mitigate supply risks (allocation, yield issues, capacity constraints, sole-source components). - NPI to Production Readiness - Drive BOM accuracy, AVL management, ECO coordination, and change control across hardware, photonics, and MEMS components. - Partner with engineering teams on build schedules, material availability, and long-lead planning. - Ensure vendors are prepared for yield, reliability, and scale requirements. - Supplier Ownership - Identify, qualify, and manage critical suppliers across MEMS, silicon photonics, ASICs, optics, PCBA, and mechanicals. - Negotiate supply agreements, lead times, pricing, and capacity commitments. - Create and maintain vendor scorecards, drive quarterly reviews, and lead corrective actions when needed. - Ensure suppliers meet quality, reliability, and manufacturability expectations for nEye’s OCS products. Required Qualifications - 8+ years of supply chain, operations, or manufacturing experience in high-tech hardware - Some experience in semiconductor is essential, with some foundational exposure to MEMS, silicon photonics and optics. - Hands-on experience building supply chain processes in an early-stage or rapidly growing hardware company. - Practical experience leading the requirements, process design, and adoption for ERP, MES, PLM, and ECC systems. - Deep expertise with Foundry/OSAT/CM  management, outsourcing models, and supplier qualification. - Strong understanding of NPI, hardware development cycles, prototype-to-pilot-to -production transitions. - Ability to thrive in ambiguity, roll up your sleeves, and operate at both tactical and strategic levels. - Excellent communication and negotiation skills; strong analytical mindset. ## Preferred Skills - Experience with silicon photonics, MEMS fabrication, optical modules, or complex multi-disciplinary hardware assemblies. - Prior ownership of ground-up ERP/MES/PLM implementation. - Startup operations buildout experience. - Familiarity with reliability testing, manufacturing quality, and yield management. nEye.ai is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us. ## About nEye.ai ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: nEye.ai develops ultra-low-power MEMS-based silicon photonic optical circuit switches (OCS) that eliminate connectivity bottlenecks in AI data centers, enabling direct optical links among thousands of GPUs. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series C funding stage) - **Headquarters**: Santa Clara, California, United States - **Founded**: 2020 - **Founders**: Ashish Vengsarkar (CEO), Ming Wu (Chief Scientist & Co-Founder), Tae Joon Seok (CTO & Co-Founder) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Semiconductor manufacturing (silicon photonics) / AI data center infrastructure - **Target customers**: Hyperscale data centers, cloud providers, AI/ML infrastructure operators (B2B, Enterprise) - **Mission**: To transform data center networks through innovative optical circuit switching technology, solving the most challenging problems in AI infrastructure. ## Products & Services - **[SuperSwitch](https://www.neye.ai)**: A chip-scale, high-radix optical circuit switch leveraging MEMS-based silicon photonics. It enables direct optical connections among GPUs and memory units, dramatically reducing power consumption and latency compared to electrical switches. Type: Hardware (silicon photonic switch). ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$152.5M** across four rounds (Series A, B, C, and a corporate round) as of April 2026 - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sutter Hill Ventures (led Series C, $80M, April 2026), CapitalG (led Series B, $58M, May 2025), TEDA (led Series A, $14.5M, September 2023) - **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew **+164.7% YoY** to 36 employees; 12 active job postings (up 300% YoY); filed 12 patents in photonics, fiber optics, and optical devices; key hires from Google, AWS, Ayar Labs, and Intel. ## Competitive Advantages - **MEMS + Silicon Photonics Integration**: Combines micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) with silicon photonics on a single chip, enabling ultra-low power, high-radix switching in a compact form factor. - **Founding Team Depth**: Led by industry veterans with decades of experience at Bell Labs, UC Berkeley, Google, and successful optical startups (Photuris, Nistica). Chief Scientist Ming C. Wu is a renowned professor at UC Berkeley. - **Patented Technology**: 12 granted/pending patents covering lidar, photonic switch arrays, and optical devices. - **Hyperscaler Relevance**: Directly addresses the critical bottleneck in AI cluster networking, a problem actively being tackled by major cloud providers. ## Strategic Focus - **Scaling Engineering & Operations**: Heavily hiring across MEMS design, photonics, silicon photonics layout, test systems, and lab operations to accelerate product development and deployment. - **Hyperscale Deployment**: Targeting volume production and integration into the world’s largest AI data centers, leveraging team members’ prior experience at Google and AWS. - **Product Maturation**: Moving from prototype to commercial-grade SuperSwitch, with emphasis on reliability, yield, and cost efficiency. ## Why Work Here - **Mission-Driven**: Tackle one of the hardest problems in AI infrastructure – optical connectivity at scale. - **On-Site Culture**: Roles are based in Santa Clara, CA (with an additional Berkeley office), fostering close collaboration among a tight-knit, highly technical team. - **Impact & Ownership**: Small team (~36 people) means engineers have broad responsibility and direct influence on product direction. - **Veteran Leadership**: Work alongside former Google, Bell Labs, and successful startup leaders who have raised over $100M and achieved multiple exits. - **Growth Trajectory**: Rapid headcount growth and significant venture backing signal a company in an aggressive scaling phase, offering career advancement opportunities. ## Sources 1. [LinkedIn – nEye Systems Company Page](https://linkedin.com/company/neye-systems) 2. [CB Insights – nEye Systems Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/neye-systems) 3. [nEye.ai About Us](https://www.neye.ai/about-us) 4. [nEye.ai Join Us / Careers](https://www.neye.ai/join-us) 5. 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