What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Supply Chain Coordinator position at Nscale?
About Nscale
Nscale is the GPU cloud engineered for AI. We provide cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers. Nscale enables AI-focused companies to achieve superior results by reducing the complexity of AI development. Our GPU cloud bolsters technical capabilities and directly supports strategic business outcomes, including cost management, rapid innovation, and environmental responsibility.
We thrive on a culture of relentless innovation, ownership, and accountability, where every team member takes pride in their work and drives it with excellence and urgency. As an Nscaler, you'll build trust through openness and transparency, where everyone is inspired to do their best work. If you join our team, you'll be contributing to building the technology that powers the future.
About The Role
We're hiring a Principal Supply Chain Coordinator to support analytical rigor, forecasting accuracy, and capital efficiency across Nscale's global hardware supply chain.
This role supports the VP, Supply Chain Planning and helps translate demand signals, deployment plans, and infrastructure expansion roadmaps into actionable procurement, allocation, and inventory strategies. You'll work across commercial, infrastructure, finance, and supply chain planning activities to help ensure GPUs and supporting hardware are available in the right region, at the right time, and in the right configuration.
Your work will play an important role in helping Nscale plan and scale hardware availability across multiple global datacenter regions while reducing excess inventory, stranded capital, and supply risk.
What you'll be doing
Demand Planning & Forecasting Support
At Nscale, you'll find a collaborative, supportive, and innovative environment where your contributions spark real impact. We're building something extraordinary, and we want you at the core.
Highly competitive US compensation package (base bonus equity), with performance reviews every 12 months. 🚀
Join one of the fastest-growing AI infrastructure companies — your chance to directly shape how global AI capacity is planned and deployed. ✨
Expect a dynamic progression plan tailored to your ambitions. Grow by leading critical cross-functional initiatives and shaping capital strategy — always with our full support.
Human-First Flexibility: We treat you as humans first. 🫶🏽 Our flexible workplace trusts Nscalers to deliver, giving you the autonomy to shape your day around life's moments.
Equal Opportunities Statement
We strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds.
If there's anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.
The responsibilities outlined in this job description are not exhaustive and are intended to provide a general overview of the position. The employee may be required to perform additional duties, tasks, and responsibilities as assigned by management, consistent with the skills and qualifications required for the role.
For information on how Nscale handles candidate personal data, please see our Employee & Candidate Privacy Notice: Here.
Salary Range
The range below reflects the base salary for the position. Actual compensation may vary based on job-related factors such as skill set, experience, education, and location. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for bonus, equity, and/or commission programs. Nscale may offer a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, flexible paid time off, parental leave, and retirement plan participation.
For information on how Nscale handles candidate personal data, please see our Employee & Candidate Privacy Notice: Here.
Nscale is the GPU cloud engineered for AI. We provide cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers. Nscale enables AI-focused companies to achieve superior results by reducing the complexity of AI development. Our GPU cloud bolsters technical capabilities and directly supports strategic business outcomes, including cost management, rapid innovation, and environmental responsibility.
We thrive on a culture of relentless innovation, ownership, and accountability, where every team member takes pride in their work and drives it with excellence and urgency. As an Nscaler, you'll build trust through openness and transparency, where everyone is inspired to do their best work. If you join our team, you'll be contributing to building the technology that powers the future.
About The Role
We're hiring a Principal Supply Chain Coordinator to support analytical rigor, forecasting accuracy, and capital efficiency across Nscale's global hardware supply chain.
This role supports the VP, Supply Chain Planning and helps translate demand signals, deployment plans, and infrastructure expansion roadmaps into actionable procurement, allocation, and inventory strategies. You'll work across commercial, infrastructure, finance, and supply chain planning activities to help ensure GPUs and supporting hardware are available in the right region, at the right time, and in the right configuration.
Your work will play an important role in helping Nscale plan and scale hardware availability across multiple global datacenter regions while reducing excess inventory, stranded capital, and supply risk.
What you'll be doing
Demand Planning & Forecasting Support
- Assist in developing short- and mid-term demand forecasts for GPUs, servers, networking, and supporting infrastructure
- Translate commercial pipeline and expansion plans into hardware demand models
- Support scenario modeling for capacity expansion and regional demand analysis
- Improve forecast accuracy through data analysis and process refinement
- Build and maintain supply visibility models across GPU vendors and OEMs
- Track allocation risks, lead times, and region-specific supply constraints
- Monitor supply concentration risks and support mitigation strategy development
- Assist with allocation decisions across global datacenter regions
- Analyze inventory levels, turns, aging, and capital utilization
- Identify excess or underutilized hardware and recommend rebalancing strategies
- Support buffer stock optimization and spare pooling initiatives
- Maintain reporting on inventory position and capital efficiency metrics
- Support cross-region allocation analysis to balance customer demand and hardware availability
- Assist with new datacenter launches from a hardware readiness perspective
- Analyze logistics and import/export constraints affecting deployment timelines
- Build and maintain dashboards covering demand versus supply position, GPU allocation status, and inventory health
- Prepare analysis to support supply chain decisions
- Partner with Finance on hardware forecasting and capital planning alignment
- Support risk modeling and sensitivity analysis for supply planning
- Forecast accuracy
- Inventory turns and aging
- Stranded capital risk
- Procurement lead time visibility
- 3–6 years of experience in supply chain coordination, demand planning, or procurement operations
- Experience in datacenter, cloud infrastructure, or hyperscale environments
- Exposure to GPU-based supply chains or hardware procurement is beneficial
- Understanding of hardware lifecycle economics in capital-intensive environments
- Experience working with OEMs, hardware vendors, and logistics providers
- Strong proficiency in Excel and experience with financial modeling
- SQL skills and comfort working with operational datasets
- Familiarity with supply chain planning systems such as SAP, Anaplan, or NetSuite
- Exposure to BI tools such as Looker, Tableau, or Power BI
- Strong communication skills with the ability to support executive-level analysis
At Nscale, you'll find a collaborative, supportive, and innovative environment where your contributions spark real impact. We're building something extraordinary, and we want you at the core.
Highly competitive US compensation package (base bonus equity), with performance reviews every 12 months. 🚀
Join one of the fastest-growing AI infrastructure companies — your chance to directly shape how global AI capacity is planned and deployed. ✨
Expect a dynamic progression plan tailored to your ambitions. Grow by leading critical cross-functional initiatives and shaping capital strategy — always with our full support.
Human-First Flexibility: We treat you as humans first. 🫶🏽 Our flexible workplace trusts Nscalers to deliver, giving you the autonomy to shape your day around life's moments.
Equal Opportunities Statement
We strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds.
If there's anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.
The responsibilities outlined in this job description are not exhaustive and are intended to provide a general overview of the position. The employee may be required to perform additional duties, tasks, and responsibilities as assigned by management, consistent with the skills and qualifications required for the role.
For information on how Nscale handles candidate personal data, please see our Employee & Candidate Privacy Notice: Here.
Salary Range
The range below reflects the base salary for the position. Actual compensation may vary based on job-related factors such as skill set, experience, education, and location. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for bonus, equity, and/or commission programs. Nscale may offer a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, flexible paid time off, parental leave, and retirement plan participation.
For information on how Nscale handles candidate personal data, please see our Employee & Candidate Privacy Notice: Here.