Strategic Finance Lead for Custom Silicon

OpenAI, Inc.; United States; À distance; USD 250 000 - 450 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

OpenAI is seeking a Head of First Party Chip Finance to lead the finance for our custom silicon efforts, partnering with design, engineering, infrastructure, supply chain, and finance to translate roadmaps into sound investment decisions.

The role spans the full lifecycle: evaluating design choices, forecasting costs, and supporting manufacturing at scale, delivering leadership with a clear view of program economics, funding needs, and risks.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in semiconductor or hardware finance with responsibility for complex programs.
• Experience owning investment analysis, program budgets, and financial decisions.
• Strong modeling skills and ability to translate technical tradeoffs into financial impact.

Responsabilités

• Lead financial evaluation of custom silicon programs, including development investment and production economics.
• Build and own program-level models and multiyear forecasts linking milestones, spending, manufacturing, and cash needs.
• Partner with chip-design and engineering leaders to translate design tradeoffs into financial recommendations.
• Develop a detailed view of chip and system costs: wafers, yields, packaging, memory, testing, integration.
• Collaborate with Supply Chain on supplier strategy, prepayments, and contractual risk.
• Work with Treasury and Legal on financing structures and financial exposure.
• Support pricing decisions through analysis of unit economics and total cost of ownership.
• Establish budgets and controls, build a high-performing team, and provide timely visibility into spend and risks.

Connaissances

Financial modeling

Semiconductor finance

Strategic investment analysis

Cross-functional leadership

Team leadership

Formation

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or computer science

MBA or equivalent business experience

Outils

Excel

Forecasting software

Description du poste

OpenAI is seeking a Head of First Party Chip Finance to lead the finance for our custom silicon efforts, partnering with design, engineering, infrastructure, supply chain, and finance to translate roadmaps into sound investment decisions.

The role spans the full lifecycle: evaluating design choices, forecasting costs, and supporting manufacturing at scale, delivering leadership with a clear view of program economics, funding needs, and risks.