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Director, Compute & Infrastructure FP&A

OpenAI · San Francisco

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Frontier labonsitedirector$234k–$325k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Own forecasting for company's largest cost center, Compute & Infrastructure.
  • Evaluate build vs. buy and guide major infrastructure investments.
  • Build dashboards tracking unit economics like cost per training run.

What they offer

  • Equity

Ideal candidate

A strategic finance leader drawn to complex infrastructure economics who thrives partnering with engineers to bring clarity to high-stakes investment decisions.

Requirements

  • 10+ years in strategic finance with infrastructure, cloud, hardware or compute-intensive experience
  • 2+ years in investment banking
  • Experience running an FP&A team at corporate or business unit level at significant scale
  • Strong financial modeling in capacity planning, unit economics and scenario analysis
  • Experience supporting large-scale infrastructure or cloud spend including GPUs and data centers
  • Ability to translate technical compute concepts into financial insights
  • Proficiency in Excel/Sheets, SQL and BI tools such as Tableau; Anaplan a plus
  • Strong cross-functional partnership with Engineering, Product and Supply Chain
  • Familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure cost drivers and model training/serving economics

Lab profile

About OpenAI

Builds safe frontier AI models and products like ChatGPT for broad benefit.

What they build

  • ChatGPT
  • OpenAI API
  • Frontier AI models

Known for

  • Frontier-scale distributed ML training
  • Massive GPU fleet and data center operations
  • Exabyte-scale data lakes and streaming
  • AI alignment and safety research

Key facts

  • Operates one of the world's largest GPU fleets
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