Controller
Surge AI · United States - Remote
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At a glance
Highlights
- First dedicated Controller to own accounting end-to-end at profitable AI scale-up.
- Manage complex usage-based and milestone revenue with top AI labs.
- Build scalable close, controls, and systems for a global workforce.
Ideal candidate
Hands-on accounting builder who thrives owning the numbers end-to-end and creating order at high-growth companies. You love getting in the weeds, simplifying complexity, and explaining judgments clearly to leaders.
Requirements
- 8+ years of accounting experience, ideally as Assistant Controller or accounting lead at a high-growth company
- CPA strongly preferred with strong GAAP fluency
- Hands-on ASC 606 experience for enterprise revenue
- Comfort with international operations, global payroll and contractor payments
- Builder mentality with experience standing up processes and systems from scratch
- Self-sufficient, resourceful and hands-on, comfortable in the weeds
- Clear communicator able to explain accounting judgments to non-finance audiences
Lab profile
About Surge AI
Human data platform powering frontier AI models to raise AGI with rich human intelligence.
What they build
- Human data labeling platform
- RLHF training data
- AI model evaluation
Known for
- Powers models for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft
- Expert human data across code, language and domains
Key facts
- Founded in 2016
- Headquartered in San Francisco, CA