Strategic Finance, Research
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
Projects
About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will partner with researchers and engineers to identify and prioritize optimization opportunities, establish metrics and frameworks to measure inference performance, and quantify the financial impact. You will drive cross-functional initiatives and feed efficiency improvements into compute forecasts and capacity planning. The role is hybrid in San Francisco.
Requirements
- Technical academic background or experience partnering with research or engineering teams
- 8–10+ years in management consulting, strategy and operations, strategic finance or related analytical role
- Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills
- Executive presence and communication skills
- Entrepreneurial mindset and experience building processes
- Technical curiosity about frontier AI and inference economics
Responsibilities
- Partner with Inference researchers, Scaling, Product, and Data Science teams to prioritize optimization opportunities
- Drive cross-functional initiatives to improve inference efficiency
- Establish key performance metrics, dashboards and analytical frameworks
- Quantify the financial impact of improvements
- Partner with Compute Finance to incorporate efficiency improvements into compute forecasts, capacity planning and financial projections
Benefits
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks birth parents, 20 weeks non-birthing parents)
- Paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays and office closures
- Paid sick or safe time
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
- Relocation support
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
