Materials Manager, Mechanical (Manufacturing)

How We Operate

• Be a barrel. Full autonomy. Own things end to end, take on scope without being asked, no permission required to operate outside your core role.
• Insane urgency. We drive everything forward as fast as possible.
• Reason from first principles. Challenge every assumption. Zero analogy thinking, no egos, the best idea wins.
• Love of the game. The frontier of AI is the most interesting problem of our time. We put in long hours at high intensity to push the frontier forward.
• Build something that actually matters. If you're going to spend your time, spend it on something that matters to the world.

Examples of key problems the team is working on

• Supply tens of gigawatts of compute, the largest build out of compute in history. Qualify and dual-source across every critical equipment category, with lead-time and capacity thresholds tied directly to the forward build pipeline.
• Make supply chain the reason we build faster than anyone. Our modular build redefines speed in this industry, and it lives or dies on supply chain. Keep procurement permanently off the critical path so schedule compression stays our advantage, not our constraint.
• Build the most accurate supply chain prediction modelling that exists. Use the frontier of AI to forecast lead times, demand, and disruption with a precision the industry has never had, and turn that foresight into a structural edge.

Role Scope

• Own sourcing for mechanical categories feeding manufacturing: steel, fabrications, cooling components, and mechanical assemblies.
• Lock supply and lead times against the build plan, with capacity commitments that survive demand spikes.
• Qualify suppliers technically with engineering: first articles, PPAP-style approvals, and audits.
• Negotiate multi-year agreements that hold price and priority as volumes grow 10x.

What We're Looking for

• The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us where you would
• You've sourced mechanical or fabricated categories for a manufacturer and owned the supplier relationships.
• You read drawings and specs well enough to challenge a quote line by line.
• You've qualified new suppliers under time pressure without skipping the steps that matter.
• You've secured capacity in constrained markets.
• You manage suppliers on data: on-time delivery, PPM, and lead-time performance.
• Bonus: Steel and fabrication markets. Cooling and thermal components. Should-cost modeling. Supplier development.

We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

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