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THE ROLE
We're hiring an Infrastructure Finance Lead to own the operating P&L for Baseten's compute infrastructure. In this role, you'll be a key partner to our Infra, Capacity Planning, and Inference Engineering teams — providing the financial expertise to keep our footprint on budget, drive unit cost down, and de-risk our largest infrastructure exposures. You'll own the near-term forecast for compute spend, run budget-vs-actual against contracted capacity, and serve as the primary finance counterpart to our cloud and GPU operating partners.The ideal candidate has strong analytical skills paired with excellent operational execution, and a track record of success in high-growth infrastructure or platform businesses.
THE RESPONSIBILITIES
Compute & Infrastructure Strategic Finance
- Own Strategic Finance for all live compute spend, including Cloud and GPU Capacity.
- Build and maintain per-region and per-partner cost forecasts; refresh on a cadence that supports monthly business reviews and quarterly board reporting.
- Run budget-vs-actual on capacity commitments and infrastructure programs, tracking expected eventual spend against approved commitments and customer-driven demand.
Strategic Projects
- Lead financial analysis for capacity-mix decisions, multi-region buildouts on key infrastructure components.
- Handle operational finance asks tied to compute partners and live capacity — pricing reviews, true-ups, capacity reshuffles, and contract amendments.
- Partner with the Infra and BD leads on deal-to-operations handoffs, ensuring budgets set at contract signing are operationalized at go-live and tracked through their full term.
- Build the analytical backbone for gross margin, COGS attribution by customer and model family, and infrastructure ROI on new capacity bets.
THE REQUIREMENTS
- 7-10+ years of investment banking experience in Infrastructure
- Strong financial modeling, analytical, and problem-solving skills with the ability to independently see issues through to resolution, including building complex unit-economics and capacity-planning models.
- Comfort being the finance person in the partner/vendor room and partnering with deeply technical operating teams (infra engineering, capacity, SRE).
- Proven track record of managing multiple work streams under tight timelines, with best-in-class attention to detail and unwavering commitment to accuracy.
- Exemplary interpersonal skills to translate financial data into actionable insights for senior leadership and non-finance stakeholders.
- Strong enthusiasm about technology and artificial intelligence, and a desire to work at the intersection of finance and the compute supply chain powering the AI era.
STRONG CANDIDATES MAY ALSO 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.
