Technical Sourcing Manager - AI GPU & Cloud

Meta•Menlo Park, CA

23h

About The Position

The Global Technology Sourcing Team moves fast and leverages key partnerships to drive technical innovation, high quality standards and cost-savings via a customized supply chain. The Technical Sourcing Manager is the primary technical contact for supplier engagement and management with merchant suppliers across a variety of technologies and, in conjunction with the Commercial Sourcing Manager, will drive the strategic sourcing decisions on a global basis. Working closely with the hardware/software development engineering and research teams, the Technical Sourcing Manager will help develop, communicate and implement sourcing strategies, and participate in supplier engagements with an overall focus of influencing and driving technology roadmaps, maintaining long term supplier technical relationships, and developing solutions that deliver the optimal total cost of ownership.

Requirements

Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or relevant technical field, and/or equivalent practical experience
12+ years of technical experience in engineering, product management, or supply chain roles within data center, infrastructure, cloud, AI silicon semiconductor, or associated high-tech hardware industries
Demonstrated understanding of relevant supplier technology roadmaps, performance drivers and a proven pragmatic approach to influencing supplier product roadmaps
Experience moving seamlessly from strategy to execution and delivering tangible results in complex, cross-functional, and fast-paced environments
Interpersonal and communication skills, with experience influencing, negotiating, building consensus and making key strategic decisions
Experience interfacing with internal and external partners in a fast-paced, often ambiguous, entrepreneurial and cross-functional environment, requiring a wide latitude for independent judgment while coordinating people and technical resources

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or MBA
Experience working with AI GPU & Cloud technology suppliers
Knowledge of industry regulations, standards and value chain considerations relevant to GPU & cloud and related technologies such as networking and storage
Leadership and management experience
Experience in driving and engaging in industry ecosystem and standards and AI GPU and Cloud technologies

Responsibilities

Maintain current knowledge of the technology and industry trends and perform competitive analysis and due diligence on relevant products
Develop, manage and refresh individual and customized technology and commodity sourcing strategies and roadmaps and in-depth understanding of the actively managed adjacent technologies
Develop and maintain in depth technical relationships with executive management at relevant suppliers. Influence supplier technology roadmaps to ensure Meta's system architecture and technical requirements are met
In conjunction with Hardware/Software Engineering, Technology Strategy, and Technical Program Management, lead the creation and definition of future technology directions in the assigned commodity
Provide technical commodity and supplier expertise and consulting to research & design engineering for technology migration and lower TCO
Provide technical review and analysis for, and responses to, supplier proposals and RFQs. Resolve all technical queries arising from the quote process
Drive pre-POR evaluation of key technologies usability/suitability within the Meta infrastructure
Own technical expertise and due diligence in supplier negotiations and provide review and input for product development and master supply agreements
Work with hardware engineers to ensure part specifications and requirements are within broad commodity and supplier capabilities, avoiding special or unique SKUs
Develop supplier technical process improvement plans to drive positive gain on cost, quality, and reduced qualification and time to deployment
Support product transfer from NPI to mass-production and establish SLAs with cloud providers on compute availability
Partner with hardware engineering teams to identify critical disruptive and new technologies with potential to deliver step function improvements in Performance and TCO
Develop evaluation criteria, and milestones to vet, incubate, and graduate technologies in a methodical and organized manner and lead supplier development and influence
Evaluate architectural tradeoffs with hardware engineering including but not limited to cross commodity horizontals, integration of multiple technologies, and exploration and evaluation of new business models with supply base