Strategic Supply Chain Lead for AI Hardware

Nscale; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Flexible paid time off

Parental leave

Retirement plan participation

Job summary

Nscale is hiring a Senior Supply Chain Manager to join Strategy Planning. You’ll forecast AI demand and capacity globally, owning BOM-level planning and supplier constraints to ensure feasible, data-driven demand plans.

This is an individual contributor role within a high-growth GPU cloud environment. You'll collaborate with Sales, Finance, and Product Engineering to align commercial signals with procurement realities, manage 18–24 month horizons, and contribute to capital planning and long-lead

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in supply chain management, procurement, or infrastructure/hardware supply chain.
• Hands-on knowledge of supplier management, lead times, BOM structures, procurement cycles, and build/manufacturing constraints.
• Experience in high-growth technology, infrastructure-heavy or hardware environments (AI, cloud, or data center).
• Strong understanding of compute, networking, racks, and power systems from a sourcing perspective.
• Ability to translate real-world constraints into forecasting inputs and planning signals.
• Solid analytical skills and comfort with demand models and scenarios.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration with Finance, Sales and Engineering.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity when building planning frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Audit how demand signals flow through the business and map to BOM-level demand signals.
• Contribute to and maintain the global 18–24 month demand forecast across GPU nodes, racks, networking, and power/cooling.
• Stress-test demand plans with supplier lead times and capacity constraints; partner with procurement.
• Integrate revenue forecasts with infrastructure capacity planning and flag risks to lead times and GPU availability.
• Provide data-driven input into capital planning, GPU reservation, and long-lead component strategy.

Skills

Supply chain experience

Supplier management

Lead times

BOM structures

Procurement cycles

Build/manufacturing constraints

Tech hardware experience

Compute & networking infra

Forecasting inputs

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Adaptability

Job description

Nscale is hiring a Senior Supply Chain Manager to join Strategy Planning. You’ll forecast AI demand and capacity globally, owning BOM-level planning and supplier constraints to ensure feasible, data-driven demand plans.

This is an individual contributor role within a high-growth GPU cloud environment. You'll collaborate with Sales, Finance, and Product Engineering to align commercial signals with procurement realities, manage 18–24 month horizons, and contribute to capital planning and long-lead