# Head of Compute

**Company:** [Prime Intellect](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/prime-intellect)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Business Operations
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Gpu Computing, AI Infrastructure, Unit Economics, Capital Allocation, Financial Modeling, Procurement, Contract Negotiation, Cloud Computing, Accelerators, Cluster Topology, Goodput Validation, Spot Markets, LLMs, Automation
**Posted:** 2026-07-08

> Owns global GPU sourcing, compute economics, contracting, and strategic capacity decisions for an open AI infrastructure platform. The role requires deep AI compute market knowledge, large-scale commercial negotiation experience, financial judgment, and technical fluency across research and engineering workloads.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own compute economics end-to-end, including contract unit economics, product margin architecture, and long-term P&L implications.
- Partner with Finance and leadership on capital strategy, commitments, hardware selection, duration, and balance-sheet exposure.
- Build financial frameworks for evaluating large supply bets under uncertainty.
- Shape the commercial architecture for committed capacity, spot markets, credit structures, and partner economics.
- Lead global procurement of GPU capacity across hyperscalers, neoclouds, regional operators, and emerging providers.
- Negotiate and close reserved-capacity agreements, spot and burst arrangements, MSAs, DPAs, and order forms at nine- and ten-figure scale.
- Secure early access to new accelerator generations, including B200 and GB200.
- Build senior provider relationships and position the company as a preferred partner.
- Translate research roadmaps, RL workloads, and open-model ambitions into compute requirements.
- Partner with Engineering on acceptance testing, goodput validation, and technical qualification of providers and hardware.
- Advise on model, customer, accelerator, provider, geography, and contract-structure decisions.
- Track global pricing, availability, provider dynamics, and upcoming capacity.
- Serve as the internal source of truth on the compute market and advise leadership on strategic bets.

## Requirements
- Strong business and financial judgment, including unit economics, margin structure, and capital allocation.
- Deep knowledge of the global AI compute market, providers, accelerator generations, pricing, and market dynamics.
- Technical fluency sufficient to evaluate vendor specifications, cluster topologies, and workload goodput.
- Significant experience negotiating and closing large-scale commercial contracts.
- Ability to operate across finance, commercial, product, and engineering functions.
- High ownership and ability to identify and solve gaps proactively.
- AI-native working style using LLMs, automation, and programmatic tools.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Competitive cash compensation and meaningful equity.
- Flexible work options, including remote work or San Francisco.
- Visa sponsorship and relocation support.
- Professional development budget.
- Team off-sites and conferences.

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