Senior Director, Strategic Finance - Compute & Storage Infrastructure

ATOMS; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Company-paid life and disability

Voluntary insurance options

Pet insurance

Job summary

Atoms is hiring a Finance/Infrastructure Finance professional to own the financial planning and budgeting for compute, cloud, data storage, and technical infrastructure across the company. You will partner with engineering, AI, data, and infrastructure teams to forecast demand and assess financial impacts of key technical decisions.

The role requires 3–6 years in an investment-facing environment and a strong ability to build bottom-up cost models using operational drivers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM or highly analytical field.
• 3-6 years in an investment-facing environment with exposure to deploying capital or supporting investment decisions.
• Direct experience supporting cloud, compute, storage, AI/ML infrastructure, data platforms, or other technically complex environments.
• Ability to build bottom-up compute or storage cost models using technical and operational drivers.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure cost drivers, including usage, utilization, capacity, storage, networking, and vendor pricing.
• Ability to partner credibly with technical teams and translate infrastructure requirements into financial decisions.

Responsibilities

• Own financial planning, budgeting, and decision support for compute, cloud, data storage, and technical infrastructure across Atoms’ businesses.
• Build bottom-up models to determine infrastructure budgets based on workloads, capacity, utilization, architecture, data growth, and unit costs.
• Partner with engineering, AI, data, and infrastructure teams to forecast demand and assess the financial impact of technical decisions.
• Evaluate vendor commitments, capacity investments, cloud-versus-owned infrastructure, and other build-versus-buy tradeoffs.
• Develop infrastructure unit economics and identify opportunities to improve utilization, cost efficiency, and long-term capacity planning.

Skills

Cost modeling

Financial planning

Budgeting

Stakeholder collaboration

Infra budgeting

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM/analytical field

Tools

Excel

Job description

Who we are

Atoms is building the machines that power the next era of progress.

Over the last decade, software has transformed the digital world. But the physical world, where food is made, minerals are mined, goods are moved, and industries are run, remains far less intelligent, far less efficient, and far more constrained. We’re changing that.

Atoms builds Physical AI — real-world robots for the industries that move civilization forward, starting with food, mining, and transport. Our systems are designed to understand, predict, and control the real world with precision, turning complex physical operations into something more reliable, more scalable, and more productive.

This work requires more than robotics. It requires deep integration across hardware, software, AI, operations, manufacturing, and real estate. We don’t just build machines in a lab. We deploy them into real environments, operate them, learn from them, and improve them until they work at scale.

We are roboticists, engineers, operators, and builders. We believe the next great technology companies will not only transform information, but the physical systems that shape everyday life.

If you want to work on hard problems with real-world impact, join us.

What you’ll do

• Own financial planning, budgeting, and decision support for compute, cloud, data storage, and technical infrastructure across Atoms’ businesses.
• Build bottom-up models to determine infrastructure budgets based on workloads, capacity, utilization, architecture, data growth, and unit costs.
• Partner with engineering, AI, data, and infrastructure teams to forecast demand and assess the financial impact of technical decisions.
• Evaluate vendor commitments, capacity investments, cloud-versus-owned infrastructure, and other build-versus-buy tradeoffs.
• Develop infrastructure unit economics and identify opportunities to improve utilization, cost efficiency, and long-term capacity planning.

What we're looking for

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM or highly analytical field.
• 3-6 years in an investment-facing environment (e.g. Investment Banking and Private Equity), with direct exposure to deploying capital or supporting investment decisions.
• Direct experience supporting cloud, compute, storage, AI/ML infrastructure, data platforms, or other technically complex environments.
• Demonstrated ability to build bottom-up compute or storage cost models using technical and operational drivers.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure cost drivers, including usage, utilization, capacity, storage, networking, and vendor pricing.
• Ability to partner credibly with technical teams, challenge assumptions, and translate infrastructure requirements into clear financial decisions.

Why join us

At Atoms, you’ll work on one of the defining challenges of our time—bringing automation into the physical world to drive real, lasting impact. We exist to uncover valuable unknown truths and turn them into progress, which means constantly pushing beyond what’s known and building what doesn’t yet exist. The work is ambitious and often challenging, but it’s grounded in a shared sense of purpose and a team committed to seeing it through together. Our work only matters if it serves others, and we know that meaningful progress depends on the trust of the people we serve and the strength of our team—so we invest in both, creating an environment where you can do your best work and grow.

What else you need to know

This role is based in our New York, San Francisco or Los Angeles office location. As a company driven by innovation and continuous change, close collaboration is essential. We’re constantly reimagining our industry, creating new products, and refining our processes, and we do our best work together. That’s why all of our office-based teams work onsite, five days a week.

The base salary range for this role is $200,000 - $280,000 per year.

Actual compensation will be determined on an individual basis and may vary depending on experience, skills, and qualifications.

Base salary is just one part of your total rewards package. You may also be eligible for equity awards and an annual performance-based bonus.

Benefits Summary (USA Full-Time Exempt Employees):

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance (multiple plans, incl. HSA options).
• Company-paid life and disability insurance (short- and long-term).
• Voluntary insurance: accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity.
• Optional supplemental life insurance for self, spouse, and children.
• Pet insurance discount.
• 401(k).
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care, Commuter)
• Time Off policies:
• Discretionary vacation days
• 8 paid holidays per year
• Paid sick time
• Paid Bereavement leave
• Paid Parental Leave

Benefits are subject to change at the company's discretion.
Atoms accepts applications on an ongoing basis.

Ready to join us as we serve those who serve others?

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