Strategic Finance Lead Compute
Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine that provides real-time, cited answers and research capabilities.
Funding history
About Perplexity
Private AI company founded in 2022. Its products combine conversational search and research with cited web sources; it also offers developer-facing Search, Agent, Router, and Embeddings APIs.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead financial planning for GPU compute spending, including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and capacity planning. You will develop financial models, analyze vendor contracts and cost drivers, build token-cost curves and pricing frameworks, assess inference and training ROI, and translate infrastructure dynamics into clear financial guidance.
Requirements
- Financial analysis
- Financial modeling
- GPU infrastructure
- Cloud infrastructure
- Data center infrastructure
- Vendor contract analysis
- Capacity planning
- Token pricing
- AI
- Machine learning
- High-performance computing
Responsibilities
- Lead finance for GPU compute spending, including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and financial-plan maintenance
- Build and maintain bottom-up financial models for GPU fleet capacity, costs, and investment scenarios
- Analyze GPU vendor contracts, pricing structures, and cost drivers to identify optimization opportunities
- Own analysis of compute utilization, committed versus consumed spend, and capacity by vendor and cluster
- Build token-cost curves and translate them into internal and external token pricing
- Analyze the return on investment of in-house inference and training
- Partner with engineering teams to translate serving and training dynamics into financial frameworks
Benefits
- Equity
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Retirement benefits
- Fitness benefits
- Commuter accounts
- Dependent care accounts