Strategic Finance Manager, Infrastructure and R&D
About Us:
Fireworks is the platform for specialized intelligence, enabling companies to build, train, and serve AI models tailored to their own data, workflows, and products. Founded by the team behind PyTorch and backed by AMD, Atreides, Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, Lightspeed, NVIDIA, Sequoia Capital, and TCV, Fireworks powers production AI with hundreds of state-of-the-art open models across text, image, embedding, audio, and multimodal workloads. Today, Fireworks is a Series D company valued at $17.5 billion, bringing together an ambitious, collaborative team that's building the future of enterprise AI.
About the Role
This role owns the financial analysis behind our two largest investments: GPU infrastructure and R&D. On the infrastructure side, you'll model how we contract for capacity, how efficiently we use it, and what it costs to serve inference — the drivers that determine gross margin. On the R&D side, you'll partner with Engineering, Product, Security, and IT on headcount planning, tooling and vendor spend, and the operating budget. You'll work directly with leaders across infrastructure, engineering, product, and finance. It's an early to mid-career role with real scope, built for someone with a sharp analytical foundation who wants to understand how the business actually runs and help build the function and processes that enable Fireworks to
