Strategic Finance Lead, OpenAI for Inference

The role

This person will own financial models, budgets, forecasts, and performance reporting for priority programs. They will translate silicon development milestones and infrastructure requirements into investment and pricing recommendations.

What you will do

• Own financial models, budgets, forecasts and performance reporting for priority programs, including headcount and investment tracking.
• Translate silicon development milestones, cost drivers and infrastructure requirements into investment and pricing recommendations.
• Evaluate customer and partner economics, including engineering support, compute, tooling, licensing and contingent commitments.
• Build and maintain customer- and program-level revenue, cost of goods sold, gross margin and cash reporting.
• Support deal negotiations and renewals with scenario analysis, proposed terms and clear financial guardrails.
• Present actionable recommendations, coordinate inputs across teams and escalate material risks or unresolved tradeoffs.

Required qualifications

• Direct finance experience supporting silicon design or semiconductor development, including ownership of development investment, program costs, pricing or commercialization models.
• Practical understanding of silicon design and validation milestones, PPA, die and manufacturing economics, and the risks that affect program value.
• Demonstrated ownership of complex financial models, forecasts, deal economics and recurring management reporting.
• Strong quantitative judgment, hands-on modeling and clear communication with technical and commercial stakeholders.
• Curiosity, intellectual honesty and the ability to move ambiguous work forward independently while seeking guidance on consequential decisions.

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through their products.