Strategic Finance Lead for Custom Silicon

OpenAI, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 250,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI, Inc. seeks a Head of First Party Chip Finance to lead the finance for our custom silicon efforts. You will partner with chip design, engineering, infrastructure, supply chain, and finance to turn roadmaps into sound investment decisions and disciplined execution.

You will oversee the full chip development lifecycle, forecast costs, build investment cases, and provide leadership with a clear view of program economics, funding requirements, and risks as we scale production and deployment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in semiconductor finance, hardware finance, or strategic finance.
• Directly owned investment analysis, program budgets, and financial decisions across chip development and production.
• Strong command of semiconductor economics including development costs, yields, packaging and memory costs, production ramps, supplier commitments.
• Excellent financial modeling skills and ability to build models, test assumptions, quantify uncertainty, and recommend a path forward.

Responsibilities

• Lead financial evaluation of custom silicon programs, including development investment, production economics, deployment assumptions, and expected returns.
• Build and own program-level models and multiyear forecasts linking milestones, development spending, manufacturing volumes, supplier commitments, and cash requirements.
• Partner with chip-design and engineering leaders on technical decisions affecting performance, power, cost, and time to deployment, translating tradeoffs into financial recommendations.
• Develop a detailed view of chip and system costs, including wafers, manufacturing yields, packaging, memory, testing, and integration; identify opportunities to improve economics as programs move to production.
• Partner with Supply Chain and Procurement on supplier strategy and commercial negotiations, including capacity reservations, volume commitments, prepayments, and contractual risk.
• Work with Treasury, Corporate Finance, Accounting, Tax, and Legal to evaluate financing and payment structures, manage financial exposure, and support program execution.
• Support commercial deployment and pricing decisions through analysis of unit economics, total cost of ownership, and the relationship between technical performance and economic value.
• Establish budgets, reporting, and financial controls that give engineering and finance leaders timely visibility into spending, commitments, milestones, and risks; build a small, high-performing team.

Skills

Semiconductor finance leadership

Investment analysis

Financial modeling

Cross-functional collaboration

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's in electrical engineering or computer science

MBA or equivalent business experience

Job description

OpenAI, Inc. seeks a Head of First Party Chip Finance to lead the finance for our custom silicon efforts. You will partner with chip design, engineering, infrastructure, supply chain, and finance to turn roadmaps into sound investment decisions and disciplined execution.

You will oversee the full chip development lifecycle, forecast costs, build investment cases, and provide leadership with a clear view of program economics, funding requirements, and risks as we scale production and deployment.