Introduction:
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.
Our Objectives and your Role:
- 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.
Your Expertise, Skills & Mindset:
- 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)
Work Setup:
- Hours : 40 hours per week (based on trust)
- Home Office Policy : 3 days in the office / 2 days remote
- Contract : Permanent contract
- Location : Munich
What We Offer:
We believe in supporting our team with an environment that fosters growth, well-being, and a great work-life balance.
- Your perks: company pension plan, corporate benefits, and JobRad bike leasing, plus, you can choose between a subsidized Deutschlandticket or an EGYM Wellpass membership.
- Your flexibility: flexible working hours and the option to temporarily work remotely from within the EU.
- Your setup: an onboarding experience that gets you up to speed right away, height-adjustable desks, and modern Apple equipment (MacBook (M5 Pro, 48GB Ram) and a 37-inch curved screen) for the perfect start from day one. Plus access to all major frontier AI models, MCP servers, and the agentic tooling you need to do your best work.
- Your well-being: a healthy energy boost with free snacks (fruit, nuts, muesli), subsidized office catering, and a weekly team lunch.
- Your fit: a lived start-up mentality in a financially secure and stable environment.
Our Recruiting 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.
Interested in joining our team? Apply now and be part of something great!
About us
Peter Park revolutionizes parking lots by digitizing them. Our mission is to replace physical barriers with cutting-edge computer vision technology, paper-based receipts with interactive touch screen terminals, and traditional payment methods with smartphone integration and cloud microservices. We aim to integrate every parking lot into the digital mobility ecosystem, offering a range of secondary services to optimize parking capacity utilization.
As of now, Peter Park operates over 500 edge devices across Europe, facilitating thousands of parking and payment transactions per hour. Our physical infrastructure relies on distributed, Python and NestJS-based backend services hosted on AWS.