Compute & Storage Infrastructure Sourcing Lead
Jane Street•3h ago
United StatesOnsiteFull-timeSenior Level5+ yrs exp
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Infrastructure EngineerMl Infra Engineer
- About the Position
- Jane Street's compute footprint is growing fast
- we’re looking for someone who can support buying across memory, NAND
- CPU infrastructure. This position will be at the heart of our technology stack, with a focus on growing our hardware relationships and strengthening our partnerships with our most critical vendors.
- The ideal candidate is a technologist with the ambition and vision to grow these capabilities—someone who is equally comfortable managing complex commercial deals and partnering with our engineers, researchers
- traders to define and challenge our requirements.
- Additional responsibilities of the role will include:
- Owning direct relationships with strategic component manufacturers across DRAM, NAND, and CPU
- Leading the full lifecycle of commercial and technical negotiations for securing multi-year capacity contracts and allocations from manufacturers
- Partnering with our engineering and Infrastructure teams to translate technical requirements into sourcing strategy and to feed supply-side intelligence (e.g., lead times, roadmaps, allocation cycles) back into capacity planning
- Forecasting demand and managing the supply pipeline against the firm's growth in compute and storage
- Working closely with our hardware procurement and demand planning teams to provide a view of component supplier vs. OEM/ODM allocation commitments
- About You
- Have an understanding of both hardware and strategic sourcing, and are familiar with the hardware procurement and deployment life cycle for hyperscalers, OEMs, ODMs, and component manufacturers
- You’re someone who enjoys building and cultivating supplier relationships; ideally, you have existing relationships with one or more of the major DRAM, NAND, or CPU manufacturers
- Have a deep working understanding of how allocation cycles and consigned/customer-furnished component models work in practice
- Experienced with negotiating long-term supply agreements
- Possess enough technical depth to engage substantively with engineers on how we plan to use the hardware
- Comfortable with commercial complexity (e.g., netting allocations through OEM bills of materials, handling warranties for non-OEM-sourced parts, and engaging brokers and distributors)
- Willing and able to learn a new domain (we don’t expect deep expertise in every aspect of the supply chain, but we do expect a strong intellectual curiosity and an ability to learn quickly)
- A strong negotiator; equally comfortable working collaboratively with internal partners and pushing hard with external vendors
- Interested in understanding both the macro-level strategy and the micro-level details of our procurement process
- If you're a recruiting agency and want to partner with us, please reach out to agency-partnerships@janestreet.com.
Required skills
hardware procurementstrategic sourcingDRAMNANDCPUnegotiation