Staff Technical Sourcing Lead, AI Infrastructure

Coreweave; Livingston (NJ); On-site; USD 177,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Company-paid Life Insurance

Tuition Reimbursement

401(k) with match

Flexible PTO

Catered lunch in offices

Job summary

CoreWeave is seeking a Staff Technical Sourcing Manager to lead supplier strategy and execution for critical data center hardware portfolios. You will own end-to-end sourcing from technology selection through ramp and lifecycle management, shaping requirements and supplier roadmaps to scale capacity while protecting cost and quality.

You will influence engineering, product, and legal teams and drive dual-sourcing and risk mitigation.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of technical sourcing, commodity, or category management experience in data center, hyperscaler, cloud service provider, AI hardware, or related high-technology hardware industry.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, a related technical field, Supply Chain, or Business Administration.
• Proven ability to develop sourcing strategy and translate it into executed results on schedule and against measurable cost, quality, and supply objectives.
• Exceptional negotiation, influencing, and consensus-building skills, with a track record of leading complex commercial agreements to signature.

Responsibilities

• Develop and refine comprehensive sourcing strategies and multi-generation roadmaps for your assigned portfolio, aligning supply capability to business growth and technology direction.
• Lead cross-functional teams through the sourcing process for new platforms, technologies, and components—defining requirements, running RFI, RFQ, and RFP events, evaluating proposals on technical and commercial merit, and driving business award decisions.
• Lead complex, high-value supplier negotiations covering pricing, capacity, quality and delivery commitments, warranty, liability, and intellectual property.
• Own the drafting, execution, and administration of master supply agreements, long-term agreements, statements of work, and amendments. Partner with Legal to manage risk and ensure commercial terms are enforced throughout the life of each agreement.
• Build bottom-up should-cost models and total cost of ownership analyses to inform negotiation strategy and identify cost reduction opportunities. Partner with Finance on budgeting, forecasting, savings tracking, and reconciliation.
• Establish supplier scorecards across cost, quality, delivery, technology, and responsiveness. Lead quarterly and executive business reviews, drive corrective action where performance gaps exist, and hold suppliers to continuous improvement commitments.

Skills

Technical sourcing

Category management

Supply chain management

Negotiation

Executive relationships

Data center hardware

Engineering collaboration

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

CoreWeave is seeking a Staff Technical Sourcing Manager to lead supplier strategy and execution for critical data center hardware portfolios. You will own end-to-end sourcing from technology selection through ramp and lifecycle management, shaping requirements and supplier roadmaps to scale capacity while protecting cost and quality.

You will influence engineering, product, and legal teams and drive dual-sourcing and risk mitigation.