We develop frontier AI methods to reinvent chip development, collapsing traditional design timelines, closing the loop between AI and the hardware that fuels it, and enabling a Cambrian explosion of custom silicon. Backed by Lightspeed, Sequoia and Felicis.
About the role
In the Strategic Finance & Compute role, you'll help define and execute Ricursive's compute, partnership, and go-to-market strategy. You'll work closely with the team and co-founders to secure the infrastructure behind model training, large-scale chip design workloads, and customer programs. You'll help shape near- and long-term compute strategy, build relationships across the compute ecosystem, and drive capacity transactions from sourcing and evaluation through negotiation and close. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 3-6+ years in strategic finance, investment banking, private equity, infrastructure investing, corporate development, or a related principal role
- Experience structuring and executing complex, high-value commercial, financing, infrastructure, or technology transactions
- Strong financial modeling skills, with the ability to assess long-term economics, capital requirements, risk, and return
- Proven ability to translate technical or operational programs into clear commercial and financial structures
- Strong commercial judgment, negotiation skills, and executive-level communication
- Ability to manage multiple transactions and initiatives at once in a fast-moving environment
More about this role
Ricursive Intelligence is a frontier AI lab building self-improving systems, starting with chip design. We are reinventing chip development and closing the loop between AI and the hardware that fuels it, recursively accelerating the path to artificial superintelligence. Backed by $335M from Sequoia, Lightspeed, DST, and NVIDIA Ventures, we are a growing, fast-paced team where every hire shapes the work.
The company has unmatched talent density, including IMO, IPhO, and IOAA gold medalists, pioneers who made prior breakthroughs in chip design: AlphaChip (Nature 2021), ePlace (DAC Best Paper Nominee 2014), RL-CCD (DAC Best Paper 2023), INSTA (DAC Best Paper 2025), and C3PO (ASP-DAC Best Paper 2026), chip leads for Apple Silicon (multiple generations of iPhone and iPad) and Google (TPU, OpenTitan), and top researchers and engineers from Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Stanford, and MIT.
In the Strategic Finance & Compute role, you'll help define and execute Ricursive's compute, partnership, and go-to-market strategy.
You'll work closely with the team and co-founders to secure the infrastructure behind model training, large-scale chip design workloads, and customer programs. You'll help...
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