OpenAI
Strategic Sourcing Manager, Compute Infrastructure
$226K–$285K
San Francisco · Manager · Full-time · Posted May 19, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of strategic sourcing and vendor management experience.
About the job
Leads global sourcing strategy and supplier engagements for hyperscale AI compute infrastructure, including commercial agreements, capacity, risk, and supplier performance.
What you'll do
- Develop sourcing strategies and negotiate and manage supplier agreements for compute infrastructure.
- Secure supply capacity, mitigate risks, and oversee manufacturing readiness and supplier accountability.
- Coordinate with technical and business teams and report portfolio progress, risks, and decisions to executives.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of strategic sourcing and vendor management experience, with deep expertise in compute systems and hardware supply chains.
- Leadership sourcing high-performance compute, accelerators, and data-center server platforms.
- Technical fluency in compute architecture, including GPUs, CPUs, server and rack systems, cooling, and power delivery.
- Experience negotiating complex capital procurement agreements and supplier capacity programs at hyperscale.
Nice to have
- Procurement, supply chain, program management, or data-center hardware certifications.
- Familiarity with hyperscale data-center operations, testing and qualification, and integration workflows.
Pay
$226K – $285K USD base salary
Tools
GPUs, CPUs, server platforms, rack systems, cold-plate & liquid-cooling design, PSUs
AI focus
Sources and supports the deployment of AI compute infrastructure, including supercomputing platforms and their supply chains.
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