AI-Driven Demand & Supply Planning Lead

Crux AI; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Crux AI is building a premier integrated AI infrastructure company in the United States, headquartered in Palo Alto. This role focuses on end-to-end demand and supply planning for data center, hardware, and capacity delivery, with an emphasis on AI-driven autonomous planning.

You will own forecasting, inventory policy, and allocation across locations, driving efficiency and profitability in a high-growth environment.

Qualifications

• 8–10+ years in demand/supply, capacity, or integrated business planning for cloud, data center, hardware, or other capital‑intensive infrastructure.
• Built forecasting, inventory optimization, and replenishment systems that reconciled sales forecasts, constrained supply, and long‑lead‑time physical assets, with the quantitative and modeling depth to do the work yourself.

Responsibilities

• Manage a multi-echelon inventory with right-sized buffers, optimized against business goals to hedge both demand and supply uncertainty while respecting lead times and other business constraints.
• Forecast demand and supply at multiple levels with the accuracy the business can commit against, and you will build the systems that trigger build/lease decisions for data center space and the ordering of racks and networking equipment on time to meet service level and inventory goals.
• Manage customer orders, provide reliable ETAs for capacity delivery, optimize allocation decisions, and run scenarios with quantified impact so the business can make trade-offs between utilization, margin, and speed. Doing this in a high-growth, high-uncertainty, high-complexity environment requires building autonomous planning and replenishment engines that leverage AI, not a monthly spreadsheet reconciliation.
• Run the integrated planning cadence and own the capacity plan of record, and feed back what the plan reveals about where capacity is needed.
• Partner across Sales, Sourcing, Capacity Delivery, Business Operations, and Finance.

Skills

Demand planning

Inventory optimization

Forecasting

AI automation

Tools

S&OP systems

Operational analytics

Job description

Crux AI is building a premier integrated AI infrastructure company in the United States, headquartered in Palo Alto. This role focuses on end-to-end demand and supply planning for data center, hardware, and capacity delivery, with an emphasis on AI-driven autonomous planning.

You will own forecasting, inventory policy, and allocation across locations, driving efficiency and profitability in a high-growth environment.