Senior Procurement Engineer, AI Infrastructure

Location: Onsite in Helsinki with frequent domestic and international travel

Compensation: Cash and equity compensation with fringe benefits.

Company

hirify.global is building a European AI cloud for training, experimenting with, and deploying AI models using GPUs powered by renewable energy.

What you will do

• Advise Procurement leadership on sourcing decisions across GPU servers, networking, storage, power, and cooling.
• Evaluate AI server platforms, GPU architectures, cluster designs, and emerging technologies from OEMs, ODMs, and technology vendors.
• Define hardware reference architectures and standards, and approve specifications and bills of materials.
• Review vendor proposals and roadmaps, identifying technical trade-offs, risks, and differentiators.
• Analyze total cost of ownership, including power, cooling, maintenance, spare parts, and lifecycle costs.
• Build procurement technical capability through knowledge-sharing sessions, reference materials, and an AI Infrastructure Procurement Playbook.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field; a Master's degree or equivalent advanced technical training is preferred.
• 3–5+ years of experience in hardware, systems, or infrastructure engineering, including large-scale data center hardware platforms.
• Deep expertise in server and storage architectures, power and thermal design, rack-level design, and hardware components.
• Familiarity with AI cloud, hyperscale infrastructure, GPU clusters, large-scale AI deployments, and supplier ecosystems.
• Strong technical judgment, stakeholder influence, mentoring ability, and collaborative communication.
• Excellent written and verbal English and willingness to travel domestically and internationally are required.

Nice to have

• Experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, supplier management, or commercial teams in hardware, infrastructure, or technology.
• Experience presenting technical concepts to non-technical audiences and transferring knowledge across functions.
• Mandarin Chinese.

Culture & Benefits

• Cash and equity compensation.
• Healthcare, lunch, wellbeing, and other fringe benefits.
• Low hierarchy and collaborative teams spanning 31 nationalities.
• Opportunity to work with engineers, researchers, and partners across the global AI ecosystem.
• Full-time and permanent employment.