Compute Strategy & AI Partnerships Lead

Ricursive Intelligence; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Ricursive Intelligence, a frontier AI lab in Palo Alto, seeks a Strategic Finance & Compute Lead to define compute strategy, secure infrastructure for model training, and structure large-scale partnerships with cloud and hardware providers.

You will translate ambitious tech programs into executable business models, run multi-year transactions, and shape pricing and go-to-market plans in collaboration with founders.

Qualifications

• 3-6+ years of experience in strategic finance, investment banking, private equity, infrastructure investing, corporate development, or a related principal role.
• Experience structuring and executing complex, high-value commercial, financing, infrastructure, or technology transactions.
• Strong financial modeling skills and the ability to evaluate long-term economics, capital requirements, risk, and return across complex agreements.
• Demonstrated ability to translate technical or operational programs into clear commercial and financial structures.
• Strong commercial judgment, negotiation skills, and executive-level communication.
• Ability to independently manage multiple transactions and strategic initiatives in a fast-moving environment.
• Interest in AI infrastructure, semiconductor design, and the evolving economics of frontier technology.

Responsibilities

• Define Ricursive’s near- and long-term compute strategy across model training, chip-design workloads, and customer programs.
• Build and manage relationships with cloud platforms, GPU providers, data-center operators, hardware companies, infrastructure investors, and financing partners.
• Develop and maintain a pipeline of compute capacity aligned with Ricursive’s technical roadmap.
• Lead compute transactions from sourcing and diligence through financial evaluation, negotiation, structuring, and close.
• Partner with technical teams to translate requirements for compute, networking, storage, deployment timing, and reliability into commercial agreements.
• Evaluate opportunities across cost, availability, utilization, technical performance, counterparty risk, and strategic value.
• Develop market intelligence on capacity availability, pricing, provider economics, hardware roadmaps, and evolving commercial structures.
• Structure large-scale AI infrastructure and custom silicon partnerships spanning multiple development and product generations.
• Translate technical roadmaps into business models, financial plans, commercial terms, and executable partnership structures.
• Develop creative transaction structures involving development funding, capacity commitments, licensing, milestone payments, strategic investment, equity, or warrants.
• Build and pressure-test financial models for capital-intensive infrastructure and silicon programs.
• Shape Ricursive’s pricing, packaging, and commercial models across strategic customer engagements.
• Help define Ricursive’s go-to-market strategy, including target customers, partnership models, market positioning, and paths from initial validation to multigeneration programs.
• Lead commercial negotiations with senior executives, corporate development teams, investors, financial institutions, and strategic partners.
• Drive internal alignment across leadership, technical, finance, and legal teams on economics, risk, and strategic priorities.
• Support broader corporate finance and strategic initiatives as Ricursive scales.

Skills

Strategic finance

Transaction structuring

Financial modeling

Commercial negotiation

Executive communication

Multi-transaction management

AI infrastructure

Semiconductor design

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field

Job description

Ricursive Intelligence, a frontier AI lab in Palo Alto, seeks a Strategic Finance & Compute Lead to define compute strategy, secure infrastructure for model training, and structure large-scale partnerships with cloud and hardware providers.

You will translate ambitious tech programs into executable business models, run multi-year transactions, and shape pricing and go-to-market plans in collaboration with founders.