R&D Finance Lead — Compute & Cost Strategy

Parallel Web Systems; San Francisco, Palo Alto (CA, CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Generous equity

Visa sponsorships

401K plans

Daily lunch & office snacks

Dinner at the office

Unlimited vacation

Caltrain pass reimbursement

Job summary

Parallel Web Systems in the San Francisco Bay Area is seeking a senior finance leader to build and run the Finance function for our R&D organization. You will own the model for compute commitments, track training, inference and infrastructure spend, and forecast spend as product scale accelerates.

You will partner with engineering, procurement, and accounting leaders on headcount plans, budgets, and the tradeoffs between building, buying and computing, turning cost per query and gross margin

Qualifications

• You’ve owned Finance for an engineering or infrastructure organization at a high-growth tech company.
• You understand reserved vs. on-demand pricing, GPU commitments, and how utilization drives long-term unit economics.
• You can sit with engineering leaders, understand what they’re building, and turn it into a cost model they trust.

Responsibilities

• Own the cost model for compute commitments, tracking training, inference and infrastructure spend against commitments and product usage.
• Forecast where spend heads as the product scales; partner with leaders on headcount plans, budgets, and tradeoffs between building, buying and computing.
• Collaborate with procurement and Accounting to determine capitalization and treatment of R&D costs; translate cost metrics into a clear company strategy.

Job description

Parallel Web Systems in the San Francisco Bay Area is seeking a senior finance leader to build and run the Finance function for our R&D organization. You will own the model for compute commitments, track training, inference and infrastructure spend, and forecast spend as product scale accelerates.

You will partner with engineering, procurement, and accounting leaders on headcount plans, budgets, and the tradeoffs between building, buying and computing, turning cost per query and gross margin