# Infrastructure Finance Lead

**Company:** [Baseten](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/baseten)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Finance & Accounting
**Salary:** $190k – $210k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Financial Modeling, Unit-Economics Modeling, Capacity-Planning Models, Cloud Commitment Economics, Gpu Procurement, Budget Forecasting, Gross Margin Analysis, Cogs Attribution, Excel, Financial Analysis
**Posted:** 2026-04-28

> Owns P&L and strategic finance for compute infrastructure, including cloud/GPU forecasting, budget-vs-actual tracking, and capacity analysis. Partners with infra teams; requires 7-10+ years investment banking in infrastructure and strong modeling skills.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

### Compute & Infrastructure Strategic Finance
- Own Strategic Finance for all live compute spend, including Cloud and GPU Capacity.
- Build and maintain per-region and per-partner cost forecasts; refresh on a cadence that supports monthly business reviews and quarterly board reporting.
- Run budget-vs-actual on capacity commitments and infrastructure programs, tracking expected eventual spend against approved commitments and customer-driven demand.

### Strategic Projects
- Lead financial analysis for capacity-mix decisions, multi-region buildouts on key infrastructure components.
- Handle operational finance asks tied to compute partners and live capacity — pricing reviews, true-ups, capacity reshuffles, and contract amendments.
- Partner with the Infra and BD leads on deal-to-operations handoffs, ensuring budgets set at contract signing are operationalized at go-live and tracked through their full term.
- Build the analytical backbone for gross margin, COGS attribution by customer and model family, and infrastructure ROI on new capacity bets.

## Requirements
- 7-10+ years of investment banking experience in Infrastructure.
- Strong financial modeling, analytical, and problem-solving skills with the ability to independently see issues through to resolution, including building complex unit-economics and capacity-planning models.
- Comfort being the finance person in the partner/vendor room and partnering with deeply technical operating teams (infra engineering, capacity, SRE).
- Proven track record of managing multiple work streams under tight timelines, with best-in-class attention to detail and unwavering commitment to accuracy.
- Exemplary interpersonal skills to translate financial data into actionable insights for senior leadership and non-finance stakeholders.
- Strong enthusiasm about technology and artificial intelligence, and a desire to work at the intersection of finance and the compute supply chain powering the AI era.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Direct experience with cloud commitment economics (committed-use discounts, reserved capacity, savings plans), GPU procurement.
- Experience managing finance cadence with a third-party cloud, colocation, or managed-services provider.
- Background in AI, ML, or high-performance, large-scale computing infrastructure.

## Benefits
- Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity.
- 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents.
- Flexible PTO policy including company wide Winter Break.
- Paid parental leave.
- Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot.
- Company-facilitated 401(k).
- Exposure to a variety of ML startups.

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