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Strategic Finance Manager, Infrastructure and R&D

Fireworks AISan MateoFinance
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Salary
$180K - $210K USD
Job type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote
Posted
10 Sept 2026
Status
Open · checked 9d ago

About this role

Fireworks AI is seeking a Strategic Finance Manager, Infrastructure and R&D to lead financial analysis for the company's core technology investments in San Mateo or remotely. This full-time position suits analytical professionals with a background in investment banking or corporate finance who want to help scale enterprise AI infrastructure.

Role Overview

The Strategic Finance Manager owns the financial modeling and analysis behind Fireworks AI's two largest investments: GPU infrastructure and research and development. The professional in this role will partner closely with engineering, product, security, IT, and finance leaders to optimize capacity, track gross margins, and shape operating budgets. This early to mid-career opportunity offers significant scope for someone eager to understand technical operations and establish scalable financial processes.

Key Responsibilities

Build and maintain financial models for the GPU fleet, tracking capacity commitments, utilization rates, cost per GPU-hour, unit economics, gross margins, and cash flow.
Partner with engineering, product, security, and IT teams on end-to-end R&D planning, including headcount strategies, tooling expenses, vendor spend, and operating budgets.
Act as the central source of truth for current infrastructure capacity, commitments, and actual usage.
Evaluate cloud and GPU provider contract terms, surface optimization opportunities, and track performance credits.
Collaborate on software and infrastructure vendor negotiations to secure favorable terms.
Participate directly in infrastructure and engineering planning to align technical roadmaps with financial models.
Deliver monthly forecasts and variance analysis for compute, cloud, and R&D expenditures.
Separate research and experimentation compute from production serving while building evaluation frameworks for R&D returns.
Establish reporting dashboards and financial processes to make unit economics clear to leadership.
Provide compute and R&D inputs for board materials, investor updates, and fundraising initiatives.

Requirements

Four to seven years of professional experience starting with investment banking, private equity, or equivalent analytical backgrounds.
Exceptional financial modeling skills with the ability to build from scratch and stress-test assumptions.
Strong interest in technical operations and understanding the physical systems behind financial figures.
Comfort working with messy and imperfect data.
Excellent communication skills tailored to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
High ownership, adaptability, and a bias toward action in fast-paced environments.
A bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to Have

Prior experience at an AI, machine learning, developer platform, or cloud infrastructure organization.
Exposure to cloud, data center, or semiconductor economics and contract structures.
Experience acting as a finance partner to an engineering organization for headcount and vendor costs.
Working knowledge of GAAP treatment for infrastructure and capitalized software development.
Familiarity with consumption- or usage-based revenue models.
Proficiency in SQL, Python, BI tools, or NetSuite.
Enthusiasm for leveraging AI to automate routine finance tasks.

Skills and Tools

Financial Modeling
Strategic Finance and FP&A
Capacity Planning
Vendor Negotiation
Python
PyTorch
SQL

Salary and Benefits

Annual Salary: $180,000 to $210,000 USD

About the Company

Fireworks AI is a platform for specialized intelligence that empowers businesses to build, train, and serve AI models tailored to proprietary data and workflows. Founded by the team behind PyTorch and backed by prominent investors including AMD, Benchmark, Index Ventures, Lightspeed, NVIDIA, Sequoia Capital, and TCV, the Series D company is valued at $17.5 billion. Fireworks AI powers production workflows with hundreds of open models across text, image, audio, and multimodal formats.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should visit the official Fireworks AI careers page to submit an application for this position.

Skills and tech stack

PythonPyTorchSQL

Questions candidates ask

What is the salary range for this role?

The salary range for the Strategic Finance Manager, Infrastructure and R&D position is $180,000 to $210,000 USD per year.

Where is this job located?

This position is based in San Mateo with remote work options available.

How many years of experience are required?

The role requires 4 to 7 years of experience, typically beginning with investment banking, private equity, or equivalent analytical foundations.

What core technical skills are mentioned for the position?

Key technical skills include Python, PyTorch, and SQL, alongside expert financial modeling capabilities.

Who does this role work with across the company?

This position collaborates with engineering leadership, infrastructure, product, security, IT, finance and FP&A, accounting, and legal teams.

Ready to apply?

The application is on the official Fireworks AI careers page.

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