Mechanical Sourcing Manager — Materials & Supply Chain

Fluidstack; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack is building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI and operates data centers with a focus on scale and speed. We are looking for a sourcing professional to own mechanical category sourcing, lock lead times, and qualify suppliers under tight timelines to maintain our build cadence.

You will evaluate supplier capability, manage performance data, and negotiate multi-year agreements to ensure capacity as demand grows.

Qualifications

• Has sourced mechanical or fabricated categories for a manufacturer and owned the supplier relationships.
• Reads drawings and specs to challenge a quote line by line.
• Has qualified new suppliers under time pressure without skipping the steps that matter.
• Has secured capacity in constrained markets.
• Manages 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.

Responsibilities

• Own sourcing for mechanical categories feeding manufacturing.
• Lock supply and lead times against the build plan with capacity commitments.
• 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.

Skills

Sourcing

Supplier management

Reading drawings

Negotiation

PPAP approvals

Auditing

Job description

Fluidstack is building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI and operates data centers with a focus on scale and speed. We are looking for a sourcing professional to own mechanical category sourcing, lock lead times, and qualify suppliers under tight timelines to maintain our build cadence.

You will evaluate supplier capability, manage performance data, and negotiate multi-year agreements to ensure capacity as demand grows.