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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
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