You'll own the operating P&L for Baseten's compute infrastructure, providing financial expertise to the Infra, Capacity Planning, and Inference Engineering teams to keep spend on budget and de-risk infrastructure exposure.
Responsibilities
- ▹Own Strategic Finance for all live compute spend, including Cloud and GPU Capacity
- ▹Build and maintain per-region and per-partner cost forecasts
- ▹Run budget-vs-actual on capacity commitments and infrastructure programs
- ▹Lead financial analysis for capacity-mix decisions and multi-region buildouts
- ▹Handle operational finance asks tied to compute partners: pricing reviews, true-ups, capacity reshuffles, contract amendments
- ▹Partner with Infra and BD leads on deal-to-operations handoffs
- ▹Build the analytical backbone for gross margin, COGS attribution, and infrastructure ROI
Requirements
- ▹7-10+ years of investment banking experience in Infrastructure
- ▹Strong financial modeling, analytical, and problem-solving skills, including building complex unit-economics and capacity-planning models
- ▹Comfort being the finance person in partner/vendor rooms, partnering with deeply technical operating teams (infra engineering, capacity, SRE)
- ▹Proven track record of managing multiple work streams under tight timelines with strong attention to detail
- ▹Exemplary interpersonal skills to translate financial data into actionable insights for leadership and non-finance stakeholders
- ▹Strong enthusiasm about technology and artificial intelligence
Nice to have
- ▹Direct experience with cloud commitment economics (committed-use discounts, reserved capacity, savings plans), GPU procurement
- ▹Experience managing finance cadence with a third-party cloud, colocation, or managed-services provider
- ▹Background in AI, ML, or high-performance, large-scale computing infrastructure
Soft skills
analytical thinkingattention to detailcommunicationstakeholder management
What we offer
- ▹Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity
- ▹100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents
- ▹Flexible PTO policy including company-wide Winter Break
- ▹Paid parental leave
- ▹Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot
- ▹Company-facilitated 401(k)
About the company
Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma, and Writer. The company recently raised a $1.5B Series F.
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