Commodity Sourcing Manager – AI Infrastructure

The posting, as Lambda wrote it

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Our customers range from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers. Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence. One person, one GPU.

If you'd like to build the world's best AI cloud, join us.

*Note: This position requires presence in our San Jose, San Francisco or Bellevue office location 4 days per week; Lambda’s designated work from home day is currently Tuesday.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Commodity Sourcing Manager to own sourcing strategy, supplier negotiations, and supply assurance for critical commodities across our rapidly growing AI Data Center Supply Chain.

This individual contributor role owns the end-to-end commercial and sourcing relationship for a defined commodity or set of commodities within the AI compute ecosystem — spanning categories such as custom silicon, GPUs/CPUs, network hardware, power and cooling infrastructure (CDUs, PDUs, racks), and memory/storage. Commodity assignments will flex based on business need, and the ideal candidate is a versatile sourcing professional capable of ramping quickly across the full range of hardware that goes into a GPU rack, rather than a specialist in a single technology domain.

You will drive negotiations, manage supplier performance, and build sourcing strategies that ensure supply continuity, cost competitiveness, and scalability as our infrastructure grows. The ideal candidate combines strong general technical fluency across hardware and infrastructure components with sharp commercial instincts — equally comfortable running a multi-million to multi-billion-dollar negotiation as they are digging into component-level technical detail with engineering partners, regardless of the underlying technology.

You will work closely with Engineering, Hardware, Data Center Infrastructure, Supply Chain Planning, Finance, Legal, and Operations to secure supply, optimize commercial terms, and manage risk across your assigned commodities.

What You’ll Do

Commodity Sourcing Strategy

• Own and execute sourcing strategy for assigned commodities within the AI infrastructure stack, which may include custom silicon, GPUs/CPUs, network hardware, power/cooling infrastructure, memory/storage, or other hardware categories that go into a GPU rack.
• Develop category strategies aligned to roadmap requirements, capacity forecasts, and long-term infrastructure growth, regardless of the specific technology domain.
• Identify and drive supply diversification, second-source development, and risk mitigation plans for constrained or fast-scaling categories.
• Build and maintain market intelligence across assigned commodities, including supply/demand dynamics, capacity constraints, technology roadmaps, and competitive landscape.
• Quickly ramp technical and market fluency in new commodity ar

[…]
dware technologies and commodity types

• Technically curious and commercially sharp — able to move fluidly between technical detail and high-stakes negotiation, regardless of domain
• Data-driven, decisive, and execution-oriented
• A strong relationship builder with suppliers and internal stakeholders
• Comfortable operating with a high degree of ownership in a fast-growth, ambiguity-rich environment
• Willing to personally drive negotiations, supplier escalations, and problem-solving day to day

Salary Range Information

The annual salary range for this position has been set based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.

About Lambda

• Founded in 2012, with 500+ employees, and growing fast
• Our investors notably include TWG Global, US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT), Andra Capital, SGW, Andrej Karpathy, ARK Invest, Fincadia Advisors, G Squared, In-Q-Tel (IQT), KHK & Partners, NVIDIA, Pegatron, Supermicro, Wistron, Wiwynn, Gradient Ventures, Mercato Partners, SVB, 1517, and Crescent Cove
• We have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG
• Our values are publicly available: https://lambda.ai/careers
• We offer generous cash & equity compensation
• Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
• Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
• 401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
• Flexible paid time off plan that we all actually use

Equal Opportunity Employer

Lambda is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.