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# Principal Procurement Lead, Compute and Storage at Radiant

- **Company:** Radiant
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/radiant/86b1ce2e-a549-4d13-aa67-82917e9d2931

## Job description

## About Radiant

As part of the Infrastructure team, we are seeking a highly strategic, technically fluent, and commercially astute Principal Procurement Lead, Compute and Storage. In this role, you will own the end-to-end procurement strategy, engage with vendor ecosystems, and contribute to commercial negotiations for our highest-value capital investments. This includes high-density GPU clusters, high-performance network fabrics, storage, and our upcoming site connectivity. You will serve as the primary bridge between our internal Infrastructure teams and the world's leading technology OEMs (e.g. Nvidia, HPE, Dell, Lenovo, Supermicro…) and storage vendors (Weka, Vast, DDN…). Your mission is to build the most effective and resilient supply chain to support the implementation of our Technology roadmap, optimize our clusters’ Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), and mitigate global supply chain risks for massive, cutting-edge computing infrastructure deployments.

## About the Role

We are expanding our footprint of AI factories and GPU clusters. This role runs procurement for the compute and storage category, globally. That covers GPU systems, servers, racks, networking within the rack, and storage platforms. You own the path from technical design to signed commercial package. You deal directly with the leading compute and storage OEMs, and internally with Architecture, Technical Operations, Commercial and Finance. Individual packages run from a few million dollars to nine figures. Our procurement model splits by category area, and further leads will follow as we scale. This is the first of those roles. You set the standards the rest inherit.

## What You'll Do

- Own category strategy for compute and storage, refreshed each quarter against the technology roadmap.
- Structure, issue and score RFIs and RFPs. Requirement capture through to purchase order.
- Own the price book for every vendor in your category. Line-item level, version controlled, and the source Finance uses for CapEx forecasts.
- Validate every bill of materials before a purchase order goes out. You run that review across Architecture, Technical Operations, Commercial and Finance.
- Negotiate commercial terms. Volume discounts, maintenance, software bundling, freight, delivery windows.
- Normalise competing bids into one comparable CapEx position per configuration, and hand that to Finance for TCO and unit economics.
- Run quarterly supplier scorecards and hold the escalation path into each vendor account team.
- Publish a monthly lead time and allocation view for Infrastructure and DC Development. You flag slippage before it reaches a build schedule.

## What You'll Bring

- 7+ years in strategic sourcing, category management or technical supply chain. At least three years on IT infrastructure hardware.
- Direct negotiation with hardware OEMs on capital purchases above $10m.
- You can read a server bill of materials and challenge it. Wrong part numbers, missing optics and cables, undersized drives, support lines that do not match the service terms.
- You build the CapEx and vendor cost models Finance relies on. Every line traceable to a quote, and you defend the inputs in review.
- You hold a position against a vendor account team under time pressure.

## Nice to Have

- Experience in HPC, AI infrastructure, hyperscale datacentres or cloud infrastructure.
- CIPS or CPSM.
- Sourcing under allocation constraint. GPUs, HBM, optics.

## Why Join Radiant

- Work at the forefront of the AI infrastructure industry.
- Build infrastructure that underpins the next industrial revolution.
- Help shape a category-defining company at the intersection of power, compute and capital.
- Participate in the company's growth and value creation.
- Collaborate with experienced operators, investors and technologists.

## About Radiant

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Radiant is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company that builds and operates AI factories combining utility-scale powered land, long-term capital, and a proprietary software platform.
- **Entity Type**: Private (portfolio company of Brookfield’s AI Infrastructure Fund)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2026 (formed via merger of Brookfield’s Radiant entity with Ori Industries)
- **Founders**: Mahdi Yahya (Founder & former CEO of Ori, now President of Radiant)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI Infrastructure / Cloud Computing / Data Centers
- **Target customers**: Sovereign governments, large enterprises, telecommunications providers (B2B, Enterprise, Sovereign)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Building the utility model for AI compute — ubiquitous, always on and offering superior economics. That model will power the intelligence revolution — giving every nation, enterprise and network the foundation to build what comes next.” [radiant.co](https://radiant.co/about)

## Products & Services
- **Radiant AI Cloud**: On-demand AI compute platform offering pre-configured bare metal offerings, GPU instances, and AI-as-a-Service offerings including Inference, Fine-Tuning, Model Registry, Kubernetes, and high-performance Storage.
- **AI Factories (Sovereign/Enterprise Deployments)**: Purpose-built, vertically integrated AI data centers built on the NVIDIA DSX reference design, offering utility-grade economics under long-term contracts for sovereign governments and select enterprises.
- **Powered Land Portfolio**: Access to over 5 GW live and 45 GW of renewable generation capacity globally — enabling rapid deployment of massive AI compute clusters at 20% below-market power costs through a mix of hydro, wind, geothermal, biomass, and dispatchable natural gas. [radiant.co](https://radiant.co/)
- **Proprietary Software Platform**: Dependency-free, lightweight architecture built on engineering first principles, featuring intelligent scheduling, automated node management, secure multi-tenancy, and a distributed control panel. Scales consistently from 10K to 100K+ GPUs.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed as a private entity. Backed by Brookfield with access to a $100 billion investment program for AI Infrastructure (Brookfield AI Infrastructure Fund).
- **Key Metric**: Total funding — Backed by Brookfield, with “more than $100 billion in deployable capital” available to the fund. Radiant is the first compute deployment vehicle and second seed investment for Brookfield’s AI Infrastructure Fund. [radiant.co](https://radiant.co/press-release-launch)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Brookfield (global alternative asset manager), NVIDIA (Cloud Partner — using NVIDIA Blackwell, GB200 NVL72, and upcoming Rubin architectures)
- **Growth Signals**: Recently launched (February 24, 2026) via merger of Radiant and Ori Industries. Targeting the multi-trillion market for integrated AI factories over the next decade. Rapidly expanding Ori’s integrated AI Cloud assets with the latest NVIDIA platforms.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Vertically Integrated Model**: Uniquely combines capital (Brookfield), powered land (5 GW live, 45 GW renewable capacity), proprietary software (built from first principles), and compute (NVIDIA partnership) into a single platform — “from silicon to service.”
- **Cost Advantage**: 20% below-market power costs through a balanced energy mix.
- **Capital Advantage**: Direct pipeline to $100B+ investment program, enabling massive, long-duration projects that competitors cannot match.
- **NVIDIA DSX Reference Design**: First-mover advantage in deploying at scale using NVIDIA’s latest architectures (Blackwell, Rubin) with full design and operational ownership.
- **Sovereign Focus**: Positioned as a partner for nations seeking AI infrastructure independence — a growing geopolitical priority.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale AI Factories Globally**: Rapidly deploy AI compute capacity using the NVIDIA DSX reference design for sovereign governments, enterprises, and telecoms under long-term contracts.
- **Expand the Ori Global AI Cloud**: Continue to grow the on-demand AI cloud for customers needing rapid deployment and flexible capacity.
- **Maintain Vertical Integration**: Control every layer from capital and energy to software and hardware, ensuring operational autonomy and superior economics.
- **Long-term Planning**: Aligned with the long-term demands of the AI economy — thinking in decades, not quarters.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Outcome oriented” — the company values people who get things done, dream bigger, think in longer timelines, and build the assets that make every other ambition possible. [radiant.co](https://radiant.co/about)
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Flexible work options, including remote and hybrid arrangements.
- **Compensation**: Competitive compensation with performance-based incentives and meaningful stock options.
- **Benefits**: Learning and development support, family-friendly policies with paid parental leave, generous vacation and company holidays.
- **Engineering Culture**: Led by CTO Chris Galloway (previously CTO at Ori, with experience at Broadcom/Symantec) and VP Product Joao Coelho (former AWS Solutions Architect, co-founder of open-source Multy). The team is building a proprietary, dependency-free software platform from first principles — appealing to engineers who want deep technical ownership.
- **Growth Opportunity**: Early-stage (launched Feb 2026) with massive capital backing — employees can shape the company’s trajectory and work on infrastructure at unprecedented scale (10K to 100K+ GPUs).
- **Hiring**: Actively hiring across every department. [radiant.co](https://radiant.co/about)

## Sources
1. [radiant.co - Homepage](https://radiant.co/)
2. [radiant.co - About Page](https://radiant.co/about)
3. [radiant.co - Press Release Launch](https://radiant.co/press-release-launch)
4. [Tech.eu - Radiant and Ori Merge](https://tech.eu/2026/02/24/radiant-and-ori-merge-to-deliver-sovereign-ai-cloud-at-utility-scale/)
5. [radiant.co - Blog: The Age of Abundance in AI](https://radiant.co/blog/the-age-of-abundance-in-ai)

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