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Head of First Party Chip Finance

OpenAI · San Francisco

Frontier labremotedirector$293k–$342k
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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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