# Head of Compute at Applied Compute

- Company: Applied Compute
- What the company does: Specific Intelligence for Your Business. Backed by Kleiner Perkins and Lux.
- Company website: https://www.appliedcompute.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-06-11
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Applied%20Compute/accc784e-bf53-4701-a27c-4fca0447dbea
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/applied-compute-head-of-compute/

## About the role

At Applied Compute, securing the right compute on the right terms is what makes our post-training and agent infrastructure possible. As Head of Compute Partnerships, you'll own the sourcing, economics, and strategic positioning of the GPU capacity that powers everything we train, serve, and deploy for enterprise customers.

## What they're looking for

- Strong business and financial instincts, with native fluency in unit economics, margin structure, and capital allocation, and the ability to model the long-term P&L consequences of complex supply decisions
- Deep knowledge of the global AI compute market, including the providers, the hardware generations and their real tradeoffs, pricing dynamics, and where the market is heading over the next 12 to 24 months
- A track record of negotiating and closing contracts at meaningful scale, finding and using leverage, and structuring deals that drive downstream economics
- Comfort operating across finance, commercial, product, and engineering, and translating fluently between all of them
- High ownership, with a habit of seeing gaps and building the fix before anyone asks

Tags: GTM and Ops