Supply Chain Leader (Founding)

Coram AI; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Coram AI in Sunnyvale, CA seeks a founding Supply Chain Manager to architect our hardware supply chain from the ground up. You’ll own sourcing, inventory, and vendor relationships across OEMs, JDMs, contract manufacturers, and distributors, reporting directly to the CEO.

This on-site role collaborates with hardware, engineering, logistics, and finance to meet demand for GPUs, memory, HDDs, and servers. As a builder in a fast-moving startup, you’ll design processes and playbooks to scale the

Qualifications

• Hands-on hardware supply chain experience with servers, GPUs, HDDs, or data-center hardware.
• Proven vendor negotiation with OEMs, JDMs, and distributors.
• Ability to build a function from scratch in a fast-paced startup environment.
• Strong planning, cash-flow, and inventory-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Source across OEMs, JDMs, and distributors and manage timelines.
• Negotiate terms and hold vendors accountable for delivery and quality.
• Own inventory strategy and pre-buy decisions to meet demand.
• Stand up demand and supply planning, inventory controls, and ERP integration.

Skills

Vendor negotiation

Supply chain planning

Hardware sourcing

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

At Coram AI, we’re reimagining video security for the modern world. Our cloud-native platform uses computer vision and AI to help businesses stay safe, make smarter decisions, and move faster; from real-time alerts to seamless clip sharing and multi-site visibility.

You’ll be joining an ambitious, fast-moving team that values clarity, craftsmanship, and impact. Every person here has a voice, ships meaningful work, and helps shape how AI can make the world safer and more connected.

Coram AI

Supply Chain Manager / Leader (Founding)

Sunnyvale, CA (onsite) · Full-time · Reports directly to the CEO

About Coram

Coram is building AI for the physical world: AI-powered physical security across cameras, access control, and weapon detection. We ship AI security cameras plus the compute that powers them, servers built with GPUs, hard drives, and memory.

The Role

This is a founding Supply Chain Manager role, the strategic “brain” of our supply chain. You will own how we source, secure, and plan the inventory of our hardware, working across OEMs, JDMs, contract manufacturers, and distributors, and you will build this function from scratch. You will report directly to the CEO..

You will work closely with the hardware, engineering, logistics, and fulfillment teams. While ensuring we are always planning ahead of demand and securing the high-in-demand inventory (memory, HDDs, servers) and also working with our CMs and JDM partners in Asia.

What We Ship (so you know the landscape)

• Servers in multiple form factors, built with GPUs, hard drives, and RAM/memory.
• Our supply chain is a mix of OEM, JDM, and CM. Our suppliers are based both in the US and Asia. This job will require working closely with them, understanding their timeline and ensuring a consistent supply of inventory.
• We span the full spectrum: OEM (order the entire finished equipment), JDM (control the sub-parts), and contract manufacturing (control individual parts), depending on the product line.

What You’ll Own

Sourcing & vendor management

• Work fluently across OEM vendors, JDM vendors and distributors, e.g. GPU distributors and server distributors.
• Run the full range of sourcing: fully-built (buy the complete assembled product) and parts sourcing (buy and integrate the individual components).
• Source across both primary and secondary markets as availability and cost dictate.
• Negotiate commercial terms and hold vendors accountable on timelines, delivery, and quality.

Securing supply & inventory

• Secure supply in advance in tight, allocation-driven markets (GPUs, memory, storage, servers), deciding when to commit and how much.
• Own the commercial structure of those commitments, including down-payment strategy, and understand and manage the cash-flow implications of pre-buys and inventory.
• Own inventory strategy and readiness: ensure we have enough materials and finished goods in stock to meet demand and never leave revenue on the table.

Planning, systems & build

• Stand up demand and supply planning, inventory controls, and the requirements for the ERP and how supply chain connects to it.
• Build the processes, playbooks, and eventually the team, from zero. Partner closely with the CEO & finance team on strategy while staying tactical and hands-on.

What We’re Looking For

• Hands-on hardware supply chain experience, ideally with servers, GPUs, HDDs, memory, silicon, or data-center / compute hardware. This is the core of the role.
• Real depth in vendor negotiation and managing OEM / JDM / distributor relationships, and holding them accountable.
• Strong grasp of securing supply in constrained markets, pre-buy / down-payment decisions, and the cash-flow implications of inventory.
• A builder’s mindset: someone who wants to build a function from scratch, not run an existing well-oiled machine. Both strategic and tactical, comfortable in ambiguity.
• You are hired for the brain and the process instinct, not a specific product, smart enough to translate a mature playbook into a fast, scrappy Series‑B environment.

We’re on a mission to transform a $50B+ legacy industry by bringing the power of cutting-edge multimodal LLMs and computer vision to real-world security and operations. From firearm detection to intelligent access control, our AI-native platform turns every camera and sensor into a smart system that enhances safety, efficiency, and awareness.

Founded by Ashesh Jain (ex‑Lyft Level 5, PhD Cornell) and Peter Ondruska (ex‑Lyft, PhD Oxford), Coram AI is backed by Ansa Capital, Battery Ventures, Mosaic, 8VC and Up Partners, have raised over $65M, and were named to the CB Insights AI 100 as one of the most promising AI companies in the world. If you’re excited to work on mission‑critical AI that makes an impact in the real world, we’d love to meet you.