Sourcing Manager, Steel

Fluidstack; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack is building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI and is seeking a supply chain professional to own structural steel sourcing and fabrication capacity. You will qualify fabricators, model lead times, and manage pricing mechanisms to keep projects on track as the company scales its modular manufacturing and site builds.

The role requires deep understanding of fabrication economics, capacity constraints, and supplier risk management, with a focus on delivering speed and reliability

Qualifications

• Experience sourcing structural steel or fabricated steel assemblies at industrial volume.
• Understanding fabrication economics: material, labor, coatings, and margins.
• Ability to qualify fabrication shops and detect capacity overstatements.
• Ability to manage commodity exposure with indexing or hedging.

Responsibilities

• Own the steel category: structural steel and fabricated assemblies feeding the modular manufacturing line and site builds.
• Source fabrication capacity across regional shops so throughput scales with the build plan.
• Negotiate raw material and fabrication pricing with mechanisms that survive commodity swings.
• Qualify fabricators on quality and capacity, and manage the load balancing across them weekly.

Skills

Sourcing steel at scale

Fabrication economics

Fabrication shop qualification

Commodity hedging

Supplier negotiation

Forecasting lead times

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.

We're singularly focused on delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else, rethinking every layer of the stack. We acquire power, design and build data centers, and operate them - with teams spanning hardware and software. Speed and scale are our key differentiators. Come be a part of building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI.

How We Operate

• Be a barrel. Full autonomy. Own things end to end, take on scope without being asked, no permission required to operate outside your core role.

• Insane urgency. We drive everything forward as fast as possible.

• Reason from 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.

• Build something that actually matters. If you're going to spend your time, spend it on something that matters to the world.

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 the steel category: structural steel and fabricated assemblies feeding the modular manufacturing line and site builds.

• Source fabrication capacity across regional shops so throughput scales with the build plan, not with one shop's backlog.

• Negotiate raw material and fabrication pricing with mechanisms that survive commodity swings.

• Qualify fabricators on quality and capacity, and manage the load balancing across them weekly.

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 structural steel or fabricated steel assemblies at industrial volume.

• You understand fabrication economics: material, labor, coatings, and freight, and where each shop makes its margin.

• You've qualified fabrication shops and caught the capacity overstatements in their pitch.

• You manage commodity exposure with indexing or hedging rather than hoping.

• Bonus: AISC-certified fabrication networks. Modular construction. Weld quality programs. Logistics for oversize loads.

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.

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