Procurement & Operations Specialist

SemiAnalysis•Hillsboro, OR

10h•Onsite

About The Position

SemiAnalysis is seeking a Procurement and Operations Specialist to support its teardown lab in Oregon. The lab purchases, disassembles, and analyzes chips, boards, and complete systems, with findings contributing to the company’s published research. The role combines procurement—ensuring the lab obtains needed hardware, equipment, and external services at appropriate cost and timing—with operational work covering compliance, legal coordination, and business administration. The specialist will work closely with lab staff and analysts and serve as the primary contact for outside counsel and vendors. This is a full-time, on-site position in Oregon, reporting to the teardown lab lead, with some travel for vendor visits and hardware pickup. SemiAnalysis is an independent research and analysis firm focused on the semiconductor and AI industries. Its work covers the semiconductor supply chain, AI models, software, and infrastructure. The company publishes research, develops industry models, and provides consulting and technical due diligence to investors, companies, and government agencies.

Requirements

At least 3 years of experience in procurement, sourcing, supply chain, or operations, ideally in electronics, semiconductors, a hardware startup, a test or failure-analysis lab, or a research organization.
Experience purchasing hardware through non-standard channels, such as brokers, secondary markets, and overseas vendors, and assessing source legitimacy.
Working knowledge of export controls, sanctions screening, and hazardous-material handling, or a clear ability to learn these areas quickly with support from counsel.
Comfort reading and redlining contracts and NDAs and working with lawyers.
Strong organization and ability to maintain accurate inventory, chain-of-custody records, budgets, and other records independently.
Sufficient technical background to understand the lab’s work and communicate credibly with vendors and engineers.
Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

APICS (CPIM/CSCP), ISM (CPSM), or export compliance certification.
Experience in a teardown, reverse-engineering, failure-analysis, or materials lab.
Experience setting up operations at a new lab or facility.
Familiarity with SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, or a similar purchasing and asset-tracking system.
Interest in the semiconductor industry and SemiAnalysis’s work.

Responsibilities

Purchase devices and systems for teardown, including phones, PCs, accelerators, servers, networking gear, automotive modules, and industrial modules, through retail, distributors, brokers, auctions, and secondary markets, often at or shortly after launch.
Source hard-to-find parts, such as engineering samples, allocated or export-controlled components, and end-of-life parts, and vet brokers before purchase.
Maintain supplies of lab equipment and consumables for decapsulation, imaging, X-ray, cross-sectioning, soldering, and testing, as well as chemicals and calibration services.
Scope and contract external laboratory work, such as SEM/TEM imaging, failure analysis, and chemical analysis, when it cannot be performed in-house.
Negotiate pricing, lead times, warranties, and payment terms; manage purchase orders and vendor onboarding; and track project spending.
Arrange domestic and international shipping, customs, and receiving, and maintain chain-of-custody records for items entering the lab.
Handle lab compliance, including export controls (EAR/ITAR), sanctions screening, hazardous-material handling and disposal, OSHA and Oregon workplace safety rules, and permits for lab chemicals and waste.
Serve as the lab’s point of contact with outside counsel; draft and track NDAs, vendor and service agreements, purchase terms, and consulting agreements; oversee handling of confidential hardware; and coordinate IP and publication review before teardown content is released.
Manage vendor and contractor onboarding, invoicing and expense reconciliation, insurance, facility and lease matters, and asset inventory for lab equipment and devices.
Write and maintain lab SOPs for intake, chain of custody, safety, and disposal, and maintain records suitable for audits.
Work with finance on budgets and spend reporting, with the lab team on project timelines, and with analysts on hardware needs and timing.