Head of First Party Chip Finance
OpenAI · San Francisco
Frontier labremotedirector$293k–$342k
At a glance
Highlights
- Lead finance for OpenAI's custom silicon efforts across full chip lifecycle.
- Turn chip design roadmaps into investment cases and disciplined execution.
- Evaluate unit economics, yields, and deployment scale for first-party compute.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
A hands-on semiconductor finance leader with technical credibility who thrives partnering with engineers to translate complex tradeoffs into clear investment decisions and disciplined scale-up.
Requirements
- Prior experience leading finance for semiconductor or custom silicon programs
- Undergraduate degree in technical discipline, preferably electrical engineering or computer science
- 10+ years across semiconductor finance, hardware finance, strategic finance or related fields
- Strong command of semiconductor economics including yields, packaging and production ramps
- Excellent financial modeling skills with ability to quantify uncertainty and recommend path forward
- Experience supporting supplier negotiations, prepayments and major investment commitments
- Track record hiring, leading and developing high-performing teams
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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