# Finance & Strategy, Compute

**Company:** [Anthropic](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/anthropic)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Finance & Accounting
**Salary:** $190k – $240k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Financial Modeling, strategic finance, Cloud Infrastructure, compute economics, Forecasting, Budgeting, Variance Analysis, AWS, GCP, microsoft azure, SQL, Python, Excel, pigment, chip architecture
**Posted:** 2026-08-13

> Leads strategic finance for accelerator infrastructure, owning compute spending, forecasting, capacity planning, investment modeling, and optimization. The role partners with engineering and research teams and requires 7+ years of relevant experience, cloud infrastructure finance expertise, and strong financial modeling skills.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Lead finance for cloud accelerator compute spend, including budgeting, monthly forecasting, variance analysis, and financial plan maintenance.
- Build and maintain detailed, bottoms-up financial models for accelerator infrastructure, including long-range forecasts, cost-driver analyses, and investment scenario modeling.
- Develop expertise in compute contracts, pricing structures, and cost drivers; identify infrastructure optimization opportunities.
- Serve as the subject-matter expert and source of truth for compute capacity planning.
- Support implementation and management of financial planning tools such as Pigment.
- Analyze the economics and ROI of model training and research compute across training-run sizes, chip types, data, and related dimensions.
- Partner with engineering and research teams to understand training and reinforcement-learning scaling and translate technical dynamics into financial frameworks.

## Requirements

- Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
- Ability to synthesize data into insights and develop complex financial operating models.
- Experience partnering with technical teams to drive financial optimization initiatives.
- Strong cross-functional communication skills, business judgment, relationship-building, and process-management abilities.
- Background in AI, machine learning, or high-performance, large-scale computing infrastructure, including data centers or cloud service providers.
- Passion for integrating AI tools into finance workflows.
- 7+ years of experience in strategic finance, infrastructure investment, private equity, growth equity, consulting, or investment banking, preferably involving infrastructure, data centers, or technology infrastructure.
- 3+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure financial management.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience working directly with AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure.
- MBA or other advanced degree in finance, economics, or business.
- Expertise in cloud service provider economics, contract structures, and pricing models.
- Experience with chip architecture economics and optimization strategies.
- Proficiency with financial modeling tools and languages, including SQL, Python, and Excel.

## Compensation and Benefits

- Annual salary: **$190,000–$240,000 USD**.
- Hybrid policy: Staff are expected to work from an office at least 25% of the time; some roles may require more office time.
- Visa sponsorship may be available.

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