Lead Compute Buyer

The role

The Lead Compute Buyer will source GPU capacity globally for Andromeda and its customers. This role involves technical evaluation of hardware and data centers, commercial negotiation, and managing supplier relationships.

What you will do

• Find and secure GPU capacity worldwide across various providers.
• Build and maintain a pipeline of available capacity.
• Own relationships across the supply chain including neoclouds, hyperscalers, and chip vendors.
• Assess capacity including hardware generation, rack configuration, interconnect, storage, power, cooling, and network topology.
• Negotiate pricing and terms such as GPU-hour rates, capacity commitments, and SLAs.
• Travel to sites to evaluate power, cooling, and deployment readiness in person.
• Track compute pricing by GPU generation, region, and contract term.
• Build and defend a view on the direction of the compute market.

Required qualifications

• Deep GPU and Data Center fluency to evaluate clusters.
• Experience sourcing scarce, expensive capacity or hardware and negotiating it.
• Experience carrying significant spend and closing against constraints.
• Ability to follow pricing and form independent market views.
• Willingness to travel regularly, often internationally and on short notice.
• Comfort with unit economics, TCO, and contract structure.
• Build orientation to create processes in a lean team.

Nice to have

• Neocloud or hyperscaler capacity experience
• NVIDIA or OEM allocation relationships
• Data center operations background
• Commodity or energy market experience

Benefits

• Healthcare
• Dental
• Vision coverage
• 401(k)
• Unlimited PTO

About the company

Andromeda is a market and infrastructure platform to buy, sell, and operate compute. The company aims to enable fragmented compute to flow through one platform to deliver reliable capacity to model builders, research labs, and inference providers.