Materials Manager, Manufacturing Facilities

Fluidstack; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 239,000 - 278,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack in Austin, TX, is seeking a strategic supply chain leader to own global sourcing for our manufacturing facilities. You will negotiate supplier agreements across capital equipment, MRO, and facility services, tying lead times to the production ramp and ensuring dual-sourcing where critical.

You will build resilient supplier networks, develop should-cost models, and drive total cost improvements while maintaining quality and uptime.

Qualifications

• Sourced capital equipment or industrial categories at scale and closed the deals.
• Built supplier redundancy that was tested and held.
• Negotiated from a should-cost model, not a quote comparison.
• Managed suppliers through a factory launch or major ramp.
• Contracts anticipate delays, quality, and support.
• Experience with manufacturing launches and international sourcing is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own global sourcing for manufacturing facilities, the equipment, fit-out, and services that stand up and run our factories.
• Negotiate supplier agreements across capital equipment, MRO, and facility services with lead times tied to the production ramp.
• Qualify and dual-source critical categories so no single supplier can stall the factory.
• Drive total cost, not just price: freight, spares, uptime, and terms.

Skills

Capital equipment sourcing

Supplier negotiation

Global sourcing

Supply chain management

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

About Fluidstack

We exist to make humanity more free. For most of human history, you farmed or you starved. Technology gave people more time for the things they wanted to do, instead of things they had to do. Powerful AI will be the biggest lever for human choice we've ever built - but only if models are aligned with what humanity actually wants. There are groups building AI who don't share these goals. Whoever deploys frontier compute infrastructure fastest will decide whether AI expands human freedom or shrinks it.

How We Operate

• Extreme ownership. Full autonomy. Own things end to end often taking on scope outside your core role without being asked to get things done.
• Velocity. We drive everything forward as fast as possible.
• 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.

The Supply Chain Team

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 global sourcing for manufacturing facilities: the equipment, fit-out, and services that stand up and run our factories.
• Negotiate supplier agreements across capital equipment, MRO, and facility services with lead times tied to the production ramp.
• Qualify and dual-source critical categories so no single supplier can stall the factory.
• Drive total cost, not just price: freight, spares, uptime, and terms.

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 capital equipment or industrial categories at scale and closed the deals yourself.
• You've built supplier redundancy that got tested and held.
• You negotiate from a should-cost model, not a quote comparison.
• You've managed suppliers through a factory launch or major ramp.
• Your contracts anticipate the failure modes: delays, quality, and support.
• Bonus: Manufacturing launches. Equipment categories such as weld, CNC, and material handling. International supply bases. ERP procurement.

We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

Fluidstack is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Fluidstack will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

Compensation Range: $239K - $278K