Finance & Strategy - Compute
$240k - $325k/yr
Senior
Bachelor's, Master's
San Francisco, CA, USA
HybridMust work from an office at least 25% of the time.
Finance & BankingCorporate Finance & FP&A
H1B Sponsorship Available
About the job
Requirements
- Exceptional analytical skills, including synthesizing data into insights and developing complex financial operating models.
- Problem-solving and critical-thinking abilities to develop frameworks for assessing profitability and capital efficiency.
- Attention to detail and patience in identifying the source of truth in complex financial and legal frameworks.
- Ability to work cross-functionally and communicate complex financial information to non-finance audiences.
- Proven track record of partnering with technical teams to drive financial optimization initiatives.
- Experience driving operational outcomes under tight timelines.
- Strong relationship-building, business judgment, process management, and communication skills.
- Background in AI, machine learning, or high-performance, large-scale computing infrastructure, including data centers and cloud service providers.
- Minimum education: bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
- Seven or more years of experience in strategic finance, infrastructure investment, private equity, growth equity, consulting, or investment banking; infrastructure, datacenter, or technology infrastructure experience is preferred.
- Three or more years of experience specifically in cloud infrastructure financial management.
- Experience working directly with major cloud service providers such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Experience with chip architecture economics and optimization strategies.
- Proficiency with financial modeling tools and languages, including SQL, Python, and Excel.
Responsibilities
- Lead finance for cloud accelerator compute spend, including budgeting, monthly forecasting, variance analysis, and financial plan maintenance.
- Build and maintain detailed, bottoms-up, data-driven 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, and identify optimization opportunities across the infrastructure.
- Serve as the subject-matter expert for the overall compute capacity plan, owning the source of truth and plan of record.
- Support implementation and management of financial planning tools such as Pigment, ensuring models and processes scale with the organization.
- Analyze model-training and research-compute economics, including return on investment across training-run sizes, chip types, and data, and distill findings into an actionable framework for capacity planning and deployment.
- Partner with engineering and research teams to understand how training and reinforcement-learning processes scale, and translate those technical dynamics into financial frameworks.
Desired Qualifications
- MBA or another advanced degree in finance, economics, or business.
- Infrastructure, datacenter, or technology infrastructure experience.
- Deep expertise in cloud service provider economics, contract structures, and pricing models.
About the company
Anthropic builds the Claude family of AI models and sells them to businesses, software developers, and consumers, with research on making AI safe and understandable at the center of its work. In 2024 it introduced the Model Context Protocol, an open standard for connecting AI assistants to outside apps and data that OpenAI and Google adopted the next year. People use the Claude app to write and analyze files, programmers hand coding tasks to Claude Code, and companies build Claude into their own products through its API. Anthropic earns money from subscriptions, business plans, and usage-based API fees. Siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei founded Anthropic in 2021 with other former OpenAI employees, and it is based in San Francisco.
Company Size
5,001-10,000
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
$224.8B
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2021
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Sales are multiplying: Anthropic's yearly revenue pace topped $65 billion in July 2026, over sevenfold since December 2025.
- IPO plans advanced: October 2026 reports describe investor meetings and a mid-November listing target; staff shares face lockups.
- Lower office minimum: 627 of 646 Anthropic job posts in October 2026 require at least 25% office time.
What critics are saying
- Job security rides on growth: Anthropic's IPO prospectus lists $518 billion in cloud and computing bills due in coming years.
- Defense work stays off-limits: in September 2026, appeals judges voted 2-1 to let the Pentagon keep blacklisting Anthropic.
- Growth is priced in: Anthropic's valuation reached $965 billion in May 2026, up from $380 billion in February.
What makes Anthropic unique
- Investors don't control its board alone: Anthropic's independent Long-Term Benefit Trust elects a growing number of directors.
- It isn't tied to one chipmaker: Claude runs on Nvidia GPUs plus custom AI chips designed by Google and Amazon.
- It holds back its riskiest model: Claude Mythos 5.1, launched September 2026, goes only to vetted cyberdefenders and life scientists.
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Benefits
- Flexible Work Hours
- Paid Vacation
- Parental Leave
- Hybrid Work Options
- Company Equity