Fluidstack
Materials Manager, Networking & Hardware
$155K–$199K
Austin, TX +4 · On-site · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Location
- Austin, TX
New York, NY
San Francisco, CA
U.S. Remote
Seattle, WA
About the job
Own sourcing and supply planning for networking hardware used in large accelerator-cluster fabrics, including supplier agreements, dual-sourcing, and hardware-generation transitions.
What you'll do
- Negotiate supply agreements with networking OEMs covering price, lead time, and roadmap access.
- Dual-source critical switch platforms and manage the associated qualification work.
- Align buy plans with network engineering roadmaps and manage end-of-life and generation transitions.
What they ask for
- Experience sourcing networking hardware at scale from major OEMs.
- Experience handling end-of-life and generation transitions without stranding inventory or stalling builds.
- Technical understanding of optics, ASICs, and port speeds sufficient to negotiate with product teams.
- Ability to manage firmware, licensing, and support terms.
Nice to have
- AI/HPC fabric hardware, white-box and ODM switching, or optics supply chains.
- Vendor financing structures.
Pay
$155K – $199K (base salary)
Tools
switches, routers, DPUs, optics, ASICs
AI focus
The role supports AI compute infrastructure; the posting also describes the supply-chain team's use of AI to forecast lead times, demand, and disruption, but does not specify this role's direct AI work.
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