R&D Finance Lead - Compute Cost & Strategy

Parallel Web Systems; California; On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorships

401K plans

Daily lunch & office snacks

Dinner at the office

Unlimited vacation

Caltrain pass reimbursement

Job summary

Parallel Web Systems is seeking a finance leader to own the cost model for our research and engineering org, focusing on compute, training, inference, and infrastructure spend. You will forecast spend as our product scales and partner with engineering leadership on headcount budgets and tradeoffs between building, buying, and cloud usage.

You will collaborate with procurement and accounting to ensure accurate cost capitalization and cost allocation.

Qualifications

• Owned finance for an engineering or infrastructure organization at a high-growth tech company.
• Understanding reserved vs on-demand pricing and GPU commitments.

Responsibilities

• Own finance for Parallel’s research and engineering organization, modeling compute costs and forecasting spend as the product scales.
• Partner with engineering and research leadership on headcount plans, budgets, and tradeoffs between building, buying, and spending on compute.
• Collaborate with procurement on compute/vendor negotiations and with accounting on R&D costs treatment and capitalization.
• Translate cost per query, gross margin, and infrastructure efficiency into actionable recommendations for the founding team.

Job description

Parallel Web Systems is seeking a finance leader to own the cost model for our research and engineering org, focusing on compute, training, inference, and infrastructure spend. You will forecast spend as our product scales and partner with engineering leadership on headcount budgets and tradeoffs between building, buying, and cloud usage.

You will collaborate with procurement and accounting to ensure accurate cost capitalization and cost allocation.