Parasail provides AI infrastructure through a global network of on-demand GPU compute resources, enabling organizations to run and scale artificial intelligence workloads without managing physical hardware. Backed by Kindred Venture Capitals.
About the role
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.
What they're looking for
- Experience owning hardware procurement, supply chain, or materials planning in cloud infrastructure, data centers, electronics, or another complex hardware environment
- Direct responsibility for supplier relationships, commercial negotiations, purchasing decisions, and delivery commitments
- Experience managing supply against changing demand, including shortages, long lead times, configuration changes, and excess inventory
- An understanding of server and infrastructure hardware sufficient to work effectively with engineering on specifications and purchasing tradeoffs
- Strong analytical skills and experience building planning tools, procurement workflows, or inventory reporting
- A track record of resolving problems across suppliers, logistics providers, finance, and technical teams
More about this role
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...
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