Materials Manager, Spares (Manufacturing)

About the Role

We exist to make humanity more free. For most of human history, you farmed or you starved. Technology gave people more time for the things they wanted to do, instead of things they had to do. Powerful AI will be the biggest lever for human choice we've ever built - but only if models are aligned with what humanity actually wants.

We're singularly focused on delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else, rethinking every layer of the stack. We acquire power, design and build data centers, and operate them - with teams spanning hardware and software. Speed and scale are our key differentiators.

How We Operate

We operate with extreme ownership, full autonomy, and a focus on velocity. We challenge every assumption and prioritize the best idea, with no egos or analogy thinking. We're driven by a love of the game and a desire to push the frontier of AI forward.

The Supply Chain Team

The Supply Chain Team is working on key problems such as supplying tens of gigawatts of compute, qualifying and dual-sourcing critical equipment, and building accurate supply chain prediction models. The team's goal is to make supply chain the reason we build faster than anyone.

Examples of key problems the team is working on include:

• Supplying tens of gigawatts of compute, the largest build out of compute in history
• Qualifying and dual-sourcing across every critical equipment category, with lead-time and capacity thresholds tied directly to the forward build pipeline
• Building the most accurate supply chain prediction modelling that exists, using the frontier of AI to forecast lead times, demand, and disruption with precision

Role Scope

The role involves building the global spares sourcing program for critical datacenter equipment, such as chillers, CDUs, switchgear, generators, and pumps, across a fleet scaling to tens of gigawatts.

Responsibilities include:

• Qualifying and dual-sourcing spare parts suppliers across every critical equipment category, tying min and max stocking levels and reorder points to failure rates and equipment criticality tiers
• Negotiating spares pricing, lead-time commitments, and consignment or vendor-managed inventory terms that keep replacement parts on site before a failure takes a hall offline
• Setting the spares stocking strategy across sites and regional depots, so a single critical failure never idles live compute waiting on a part
• Partnering with reliability and site operations to forecast spares demand from the maintenance schedule and installed base, and keeping the parts catalog ahead of every new equipment generation

What We're Looking For

We're looking for someone who has built or run a spare parts or MRO sourcing program for capital equipment, where downtime carried a real cost, and has set the stocking levels themselves.

Requirements include:

• Experience qualifying and dual-sourcing suppliers across multiple equipment categories, and pulling a second source online fast when a primary vendor slipped
• Negotiating consignment, vendor-managed inventory, or stocking agreements that put critical parts on site ahead of demand rather than after a failure
• Tying spares inventory decisions to failure data, criticality tiers, and lead times, not to gut feel or blanket safety stock
• Working directly with reliability and maintenance teams to forecast parts demand off an installed base and a maintenance schedule
• Keeping clean records of parts, suppliers, pricing, and lead times, and not losing a critical spare in a spreadsheet

Bonus experience includes datacenter or mission-critical facility equipment, global supplier networks, ERP or inventory systems, and mechanical or electrical spares for high-availability infrastructure.

Qualifications

We are committed to pay equity and transparency, and offer a compensation range of $155K - $199K.