Director, Compute & Infrastructure FP&A
OpenAI · San Francisco
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Frontier labonsitedirector$234k–$325k
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