AI Compute Financing Lead

Hyperbolic; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Hyperbolic Labs, based in San Francisco, seeks a senior capital markets professional to architect and raise debt capital for its Open-Access AI Cloud. You will own lender relationships, structure facilities, and manage covenants, ensuring financeable contracts while supporting ongoing equity rounds.

The role requires deep experience in capital markets, institutional fundraising, and complex debt structures, with a track record of delivering sizeable facilities and post-close reporting.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in capital markets, corporate development, or institutional fundraising; 10+ preferred
• Raised institutional capital before — from institutional LPs for hedge funds, private equity, or venture capital — and you can name the relationships you’d bring
• Investment bank capital markets experience, ideally debt: DCM, leveraged finance, structured finance, private capital markets, or a financial sponsors group
• Existing relationships with bank, non-bank, and private credit lenders active in the AI space
• Real fluency in credit documentation and structure — comfortable arguing about first‑lien vs. second‑lien, intercreditor terms, cash sweeps, and control over accounts
• Strong financial modeling skills; you can build the facility model yourself and defend every assumption
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity, a small team, and no analyst bench

Responsibilities

• Originate and structure debt capital to fund vendor down payments and capacity commitments
• Manage lender and investor relationship map; run raises end to end from positioning through definitive documentation
• Negotiate covenants, lien priority, DACA mechanics, borrowing base definitions, and advance rates
• Own the financing side of our contract-level model and support concurrent equity rounds
• Post-close lender reporting and compliance; coordinate with vendor supply and customer contracts to ensure financeability
• Develop and prioritize a lender universe; secure a term sheet within 12 months

Skills

Capital markets

Institutional fundraising

Debt financing

Lender relationships

Credit documentation

Financial modeling

Structured finance

Negotiation skills

Ambiguity tolerance

Team leadership

Job description

Hyperbolic Labs, based in San Francisco, seeks a senior capital markets professional to architect and raise debt capital for its Open-Access AI Cloud. You will own lender relationships, structure facilities, and manage covenants, ensuring financeable contracts while supporting ongoing equity rounds.

The role requires deep experience in capital markets, institutional fundraising, and complex debt structures, with a track record of delivering sizeable facilities and post-close reporting.