# Strategic Finance Manager, Infrastructure and R&D at Fireworks

- Company: Fireworks
- What the company does: Fireworks��� state of the art training and inference platform take you beyond the frontier, transforming open models into your specialized intelligence. Backed by Bessemer, Index and Lightspeed.
- Company website: https://fireworks.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Mateo
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $180K to $210K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-10
- Apply by: 2026-10-25
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fireworks/b5d24188-bbd2-4f85-86bd-465edba8c0de
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/fireworks-strategic-finance-manager-infrastructure-and-r-and-d/

## 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.

## What they're looking for

- 4-7 years of experience beginning with investment banking, private equity, or equivalent experience — this foundation is required for the modeling and analytical rigor it builds
- Ideally, subsequent time in a corporate or startup finance seat (strategic finance, FP&A, or corporate development) at a technology company
- Expert financial modeling skills — you can build from scratch, stress-test your own assumptions, and translate outputs into clear recommendations
- Genuine interest in operations. You want to understand the physical and technical system underneath the numbers, not just consume its outputs
- Comfort with messy and imperfect data
- Excellent communication with technical and non-technical audiences alike — you can take a messy question from a founder or an engineer and return a clear one-page answer

Tags: Finance