GPU Commodity Manager, Global Strategic Sourcing and Silicon Operations

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XIn accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

* Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance

* Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match

* Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment

* Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance

* Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks

* Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks

* Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Minimum qualifications:

* Bachelor's degree in a technical or engineering field or equivalent practical experience.

* 10 years of experience in sourcing, manufacturing, procurement, supply chain management, within the semiconductor, hardware, cloud infrastructure industry.

* Experience managing relationships and negotiating agreements with merchant silicon vendors.

* Experience building cost models, evaluating total cost of ownership (TCO), and executing agreements.

Preferred qualifications:

* Master's degree or MBA in a technical or engineering field.

* Experience collaborating cross-functionally with hardware engineering and capacity planning teams.

* Familiarity with merchant silicon pricing dynamics, including performance binning and volume-tier structuring.

* Understanding of AI processor architectures, server infrastructure, and the broader data center computing ecosystem.

About the job

Commodity Managers work with Engineering teams to make sure Google has the supplies and equipment to put into production the innovative products coming from our Engineering teams. As a Commodity Manager, you use your wide industry knowledge and strategic supplier relationships to optimize our total cost of ownership for our global -- and growing -- infrastructure. The scale at which Google operates means that savings on just one piece of hardware can have a huge impact on Google's bottom line.

Google's Strategic Sourcing Organization is the commercial engine powering our next generation of AI and cloud infrastructure. Operating as a technical commercial team, Strategic Sourcing bridges the gap between advanced hardware engineering and global supply chain execution. We manage the commercial life-cycle for all GPUs and related network infrastructure in a cradle to grave process. We collaborate deeply with our suppliers to enable Google's future supply for its customers is built out and deployed.

As a Strategic Sourcing Manager for GPUs, you will act as the primary commercial owner for our supplier's compute silicion stack and rack networking hardware. Operating within the Product Sourcing pillar, you will be responsible for the end-to-end commercial life-cycle of off-the-shelf (OTS) graphics processors that power Google Cloud's data center infrastructure. You will help manage the high valued commercial relationship with major GPU vendors (e.g., Nvidia, AMD), focusing on long term agreements, supply assurance, and quality execution.

You will align Google's infrastructure scale with vendor roadmaps to secure the total cost and availability for finished silicon products.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $189,000-$274,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the…