Inferact is a startup founded by creators and core maintainers of vLLM, the most popular open-source LLM inference engine. Our mission is to grow vLLM as the world. Backed by a16z.
About the role
Inferact's mission is to grow vLLM as the world's AI inference engine and accelerate AI progress by making inference cheaper and faster. Founded by the creators and core maintainers of vLLM, we sit at the intersection of models and hardware, a position that took years to build. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Experience personally owning strategic finance, business planning, or financial analysis for a growing technology business, with evidence that your work influenced operating or investment decisions
- Strong financial modeling skills, including driver-based revenue and expense forecasts, headcount plans, and the ability to connect the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow
- Commercial and operating judgment: you can evaluate unit economics, investment returns, pricing, and resource allocation while making assumptions and uncertainty explicit
- Ability to reconcile plans with accounting actuals, explain performance variances, and distinguish changes in business performance from timing, data, or modeling issues
- Advanced spreadsheet and analytical skills, with the ability to combine financial and operational data into models that others can inspect, maintain, and use
- Strong communication and business-partnering skills, including the ability to challenge assumptions constructively and explain financial tradeoffs to technical and non-financial leaders
More about this role
Inferact's mission is to grow vLLM as the world's AI inference engine and accelerate AI progress by making inference cheaper and faster. Founded by the creators and core maintainers of vLLM, we sit at the intersection of models and hardware, a position that took years to build.
We're looking for a Strategic Finance Lead to help shape how Inferact grows, invests, and scales. You'll turn questions about inference economics, pricing, commercial opportunities, compute spending, and hiring into rigorous financial models and clear recommendations. This is a hands-on role for someone who can move from an ambiguous business question to the underlying data, build the analysis themselves, and help leadership make a better decision.
You'll partner closely with founders, engineering, infrastructure, go-to-market, People, and the Corporate Controller to evaluate growth and investment priorities, understand customer and product profitability, and make resource tradeoffs explicit. Alongside this strategic work, you'll own the operating model, budgeting, rolling forecasts, headcount and expense planning, and cash runway scenarios. You'll also support board discussions and fundraising with clear...
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