Supply Chain & Procurement Lead, GPU Infrastructure

About Parasail

Parasail builds inference infrastructure for open-weight AI models. Behind one API, we bring together distributed GPU capacity and optimize how workloads run across it, helping customers access reliable, high-performance inference without managing the underlying infrastructure.

Parasail builds inference infrastructure for open-weight AI models. Behind one API, we bring together distributed GPU capacity and optimize how workloads run across it, helping customers access reliable, high-performance inference without managing the underlying infrastructure.

We're building the team that sources, deploys, and operates the hardware behind that platform.

You'll own the supplier relationships, purchasing, and supply planning that support Parasail's GPU infrastructure—from identifying hardware needs and securing supply through delivery, replacements, and lifecycle management.

This is an early role with responsibility for both strategy and execution. You'll negotiate with vendors, manage purchasing and delivery commitments, resolve shortages, and build visibility into equipment availability and cost. Working closely with engineering, finance, and our Data Center Deployment & Operations TPM, you'll ensure purchasing decisions support real deployment needs.

Initially, you'll work directly with suppliers, hardware manufacturers, distributors, and logistics partners to get things done. As Parasail grows, you'll build the processes, systems, and team needed to support a larger infrastructure footprint.

• Own supplier relationships. Evaluate and manage hardware manufacturers, distributors, integrators, and logistics partners. Establish clear expectations for pricing, availability, quality, delivery, and support.
• Lead sourcing and purchasing. Run vendor evaluations and requests for quotes, negotiate commercial terms, and manage purchases for GPUs, servers, networking equipment, racks, spares, and supporting hardware.
• Build the supply plan. Translate capacity requirements and deployment schedules into purchasing plans. Account for equipment already available, supplier lead times, configuration changes, and budget constraints.
• Drive delivery commitments. Track orders from placement through manufacturing, shipment, and receipt. Resolve delays and discrepancies, and develop alternatives when supply puts a deployment at risk.
• Partner on technical decisions. Work with engineering to confirm specifications, evaluate substitutions, and understand how hardware choices affect cost, availability, compatibility, and deployment timing.
• Manage inventory and lifecycle. Maintain visibility into equipment that is ordered, in transit, in storage, deployed, or awaiting repair. Coordinate spares, warranties, returns, replacements, and end-of-life disposition with operations.
• Balance cost and availability. Evaluate total acquisition costs, payment terms, inventory exposure, and the cost of delayed capacity. Present clear purchasing recommendations to finance and leadership.
• Build procurement systems and controls. Establish practical workflows for purchase approvals, order tracking, inventory reconciliation, and invoice discrepancies. Automate repetitive work and keep records reliable as volume grows.
• Keep supply and deployment aligned. Provide dependable equipment milestones to the deployment TPM. Surface shortages, supplier risks, and decisions early, with recovery options and accountable owners.
• Build the function. Define supplier performance measures, improve purchasing and planning practices, and help hire and develop the team as demand grows.

• Experience owning hardware procurement, supply chain, or materials planning in cloud infrastructure, data centers,…