Infrastructure Finance Lead

ABOUT BASETEN

Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $300M Series E https://www.baseten.co/blog/announcing-baseten-s-300m-series-e/, backed by investors including BOND, IVP, Spark Capital, Greylock, and Conviction. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products.

THE ROLE

We're hiring an Infrastructure Finance Lead to own the operating P&L for Baseten's compute infrastructure. In this role, you'll be a key partner to our Infra, Capacity Planning, and Inference Engineering teams — providing the financial expertise to keep our footprint on budget, drive unit cost down, and de-risk our largest infrastructure exposures. You'll own the near-term forecast for compute spend, run budget-vs-actual against contracted capacity, and serve as the primary finance counterpart to our cloud and GPU operating partners.The ideal candidate has strong analytical skills paired with excellent operational execution, and a track record of success in high-growth infrastructure or platform businesses.

THE 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...