Materials Manager, Networking & Hardware

The role

The Materials Manager owns the networking hardware category including switches, routers, and DPUs. This person negotiates supply agreements and manages dual-sourcing for accelerator clusters.

What you will do

• Own the networking hardware category including switches, routers, and DPUs for fabrics connecting 100k+ accelerator clusters
• Negotiate supply agreements with networking OEMs covering price, lead time, and roadmap access
• Dual-source critical switch platforms and manage the qualification burden
• Align buy plans with network engineering roadmaps

Required qualifications

• Sourced networking hardware at scale from major OEMs
• Handled end-of-life and generation transitions without stranding inventory or stalling builds
• Understand enough of the technology (optics, ASICs, port speeds) to negotiate credibly with product teams
• Keep firmware, licensing, and support terms from becoming the expensive surprise later

Nice to have

• AI/HPC fabric hardware
• White-box and ODM switching
• Optics supply chains
• Vendor financing structures

About the company

Fluidstack acquires power, designs and builds data centers, and operates them. They are focused on delivering tens to hundreds of GWs of compute for AI.