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About Vercel: Vercel is the agentic infrastructure company, freeing people and agents to ship what's next. For more than a decade we've helped builders move from idea to production with speed, security, and exceptional developer experience. Now we're scaling our products for both agents and people to ship and run software, built in the open and trusted by OpenAI, PayPal, Ramp, Supreme, and millions of developers worldwide. About the Role: We’re looking for an FP&A Manager, Product to join our Finance team. You’ll be the financial lead for our Engineering, Product, and Design (EPD) organizations—owning OpEx and headcount planning while building scalable systems that improve visibility and decision-making. You’ll partner cross-functionally with Engineering leadership, People, and Strategic Finance to ensure investments are intentional, efficient, and aligned with long-term company strategy. What You Will Do: Own the Product investment envelope – Manage OpEx and headcount budgets across EPD. Ensure investments align with company strategy while maintaining disciplined spend and margin targets. Drive rigorous workforce planning across technical and corporate teams – Build bottoms-up headcount models by function and level. Partner with Engineering leaders to sequence hiring against roadmap needs, compliance requirements, and operational scale. Model infrastructure and internal systems economics – Develop clear forecasting models for cloud hosting, AI/compute, internal tooling, SaaS applications, and enterprise systems. Identify optimization opportunities across both product infrastructure and corporate tech stack. Translate roadmap and corporate priorities into financial tradeoffs – Evaluate build vs. buy decisions, capitalizable vs. expensed R&D, and vendor investments across EPD. Provide clear recommendations grounded in ROI and long-term cost structure impact. Elevate budget vs. actuals rigor across the organization – Lead monthly BvA reviews for EPD. Automate

About the Team OpenAI is building the world’s most advanced AI infrastructure ecosystem. The Site Readiness & Development team owns the upstream diligence and development work required to convert powered-land opportunities into executable infrastructure options. About the Role The Site Selection Lead sets the site-selection strategy for powered-land and greenfield/brownfield opportunities. This role defines, with cross-functional partners, what makes a site attractive, executable, and scalable, then turns that shared rubric into portfolio choices and deployment plans. Key Responsibilities Own the site-selection strategy across priority geographies, including market maps, pipeline segmentation, source refreshes, live-location tracking, and portfolio prioritization. Convene Power, Land, Development, Engineering, Construction, Environmental, Community, Commercial, Legal, and Finance partners to define the shared rubric for a high-quality site. Translate that rubric into clear screening criteria across power readiness, land control, timing, scale, cost, community risk, environmental constraints, AHJ path, budget, schedule, and counterparty credibility. Orchestrate Commercial, Legal, Finance, Power, and Development teams to shape exclusivity, initial terms, site-control strategy, funding assumptions, and the path to deployment before deeper commitment. Build a deployment plan for top candidates that identifies capacity, sequencing, capital implications, critical-path approvals, risks, owners, and stage-gate decisions. Lead conceptual site planning and test-fit screening using boundaries, map layers, buildings, substations, roads, parking, laydown, stormwater, utility corridors, acreage, and estimated load. Maintain a single decision-support view of pipeline stage, site health, power readiness, finance review, maps, project evidence, outstanding source data, owners, deadlines, and escalations. Present executive-ready advance, defer, or stop recommendations with clear

About Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. About the role Anthropic is seeking a Senior Manager, Infrastructure Asset Accounting to join our Infrastructure Accounting team. In this role, you will own the accounting for Anthropic's infrastructure assets across their full lifecycle — from chips, memory, and networking components moving through the supply chain, to the racks, clusters, and data center buildouts underpinning our $50B+ investment in American computing infrastructure. As we continue our rapid growth, you will help ensure the operational scalability and financial accuracy of the core functions that enable Anthropic's research and commercial success. This is an opportunity to be at the heart of one of the fastest-scaling companies in the industry, and to shape how Anthropic's growing fixed asset base is accounted for and understood across the business. You'll work closely with partners across Data Center Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, and Legal, apply deep technical accounting expertise under ASC 360 along with cost accounting judgment on components that behave like inventory, and help build the processes, controls, and systems that let this function scale. Responsibilities Own end-to-end accounting for Anthropic's infrastructure assets through their lifecycle — component cost accumulation, prepayments and deposits, construction-in-progress (CIP), transfer to fixed assets at deployment, and disposal Build and maintain detailed transaction flows that map how assets and costs move from purchase order through shipment, receipt, warehousing, integration, deployment, and in-service, and keep them current as sourcing models change Evaluate the accounting implicati

This is Adyen Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition. For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster. Senior Optimization Data Analyst We are looking for a Senior Optimization Data Analyst to take a defining role in how Adyen drives payment performance for its most complex merchants. As a senior member of the Performance Optimization team, you will bring the full breadth of payment optimization expertise expected at this level, across authentication, authorization, and cost, while going deeper in risk, fraud, and ML-driven decisioning than any other role on the team. You will combine hands-on technical capability with recognized domain expertise in risk to lead the team's most complex merchant engagements, shape PO's analytical methodology, and accelerate the adoption of Adyen's optimization capabilities across the merchant portfolio. This role sits at the intersection of technical depth and commercial impact. You will work directly with large-scale transactional data, including ML output and labeled risk data, to generate comprehensive insights that connect to merchant strategy. You will do this in close collaboration with Adyen's product teams, through insights and feedback that drive product improvements, and an analytical layer that makes risk model behavior more interpretable and actionable for merchants and internal teams alike. You will build the frameworks, tools, and knowledge that allow the broader PO team and commercial s

Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all . Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever. As a Fab16S (Tainan) Track Equipment Manager, you will… Lead and manage a team of equipment engineers to track, monitor, and drive the installation, modification, upgrade, and maintenance of manufacturing equipment. Ensure equipment performance, reliability, safety, and operational readiness are continuously monitored and improved. Drive accountability for uptime, manufacturing impact resolution, and execution of improvement programs through AI-driven analytics, automation, and performance tracking systems . Partner with engineering, manufacturing, and maintenance organizations to ensure timely issue resolution and achievement of operational objectives. Responsibilities and Tasks • Track equipment maintenance budgets, operating costs, and spending trends. Drive cost reduction initiatives using AI-based cost modeling, predictive maintenance insights, and performance dashboards . • Monitor and drive Preventive Maintenance (PM) effectiveness, first-time success rates, MTTR, and spare part utilization. Ensure systematic problem solving through AI-assisted fault detection, RCA tracking, and engineering knowledge systems . • Track and review equipment constraints, OEE performance, throughput, and tool utilization with Process and Manufacturing teams. Leverage AI/ML-driven analytics to identify optimization opportunities and improve operational performance. • Establish, monitor, and review supplier performance metric

About the Team The Search research team focuses on building the systems that help AI systems find, retrieve, and use information from the world. We aim to make answers more useful and grounded for more than a billion ChatGPT users. About the Role We’re looking for a Technical Program Manager to lead a broad portfolio of research and engineering programs that power search. You’ll partner closely with researchers, engineers, and product leaders to turn ambitious goals into clear plans, resolve dependencies, and move complex technical work forward. This role combines technical depth, product judgment, and hands-on execution. You’ll work across retrieval, indexing, and model improvements, while collaborating with policy, legal, and external data partners. You’ll help teams make informed tradeoffs and build practical ways of working that support a fast-moving research environment. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. In this role, you will: Lead programs across model training, retrieval, large-scale indexing, and search infrastructure. Translate evolving goals into prioritized workstreams with clear owners, milestones, dependencies, and resource needs. Partner with research, engineering, and product leads to define requirements and make tradeoffs across scope, quality, performance, timelines, and cost. Establish program success metrics and use them to guide priorities and track improvements in coverage, answer quality, responsiveness, and trust. Identify technical and cross-functional risks early, drive blockers to resolution, and communicate progress and decisions clearly to teams and leadership. Coordinate with product, policy, legal, and external partners on data access, use, and presentation, helping teams resolve decisions that span technical and non-technical domains. Manage dependencies with data providers and build repeatable processes that help research and engineering teams execute effectively as the search effort grows. You might thrive in this role if you

About the Team OpenAI's Industrial Compute organization is building and scaling the infrastructure required to support frontier AI. The Infrastructure Strategic Sourcing team connects technical and project requirements to supplier readiness, contracting, purchasing, equipment delivery, and portfolio-level risk visibility across owner-furnished contractor-installed equipment (OFCI), data center networking, rack systems and integration, fiber, cabling, optical interconnects, and related infrastructure. The team partners across Pre-Construction, Design, Construction, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Network Engineering, Hardware and Rack Delivery, Strategic Sourcing, Procurement, Legal, Finance, Accounts Payable, Logistics, and external suppliers. We build the operating mechanisms that keep sourcing decisions, purchase execution, long-lead equipment, network and fiber dependencies, rack readiness, and delivery commitments aligned to infrastructure schedules. About the Role We are seeking an Infrastructure Sourcing Operations Lead to own procurement operations across pre-construction, design, construction, and sourcing through purchase order issuance, while maintaining visibility through invoice resolution, production, logistics, delivery, installation, and readiness. The portfolio includes electrical and mechanical OFCI, networking equipment, rack systems and integration, fiber, cabling, optical interconnects, and other infrastructure required to bring capacity online. In this role, you will set priorities, make or escalate decisions that affect cost, supplier relationships, contractual position, and delivery schedules, and define the standards used by execution support for queue management, documentation, tracker maintenance, and recurring reporting. Success requires sound commercial and program judgment, operational rigor, systems thinking, and the ability to turn incomplete information across vendors, tools, and project teams into clear decisions, accountable

About the Role We are seeking a Strategic Finance Lead for our GPU compute fleet. In this role, you will be a key partner to our inference and infrastructure teams, providing financial expertise to optimize our compute investments and drive capacity decisions. In this role, you'll develop deep expertise in the economics of AI compute, from token-level serving cost to the long-range financial planning of our GPU fleet. You'll build the models that inform Perplexity's capacity and make-versus-buy decisions, own the internal-cost analysis that underpins internal and external token pricing, and translate complex infrastructure dynamics into clear financial narratives for leadership. This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives at the intersection of finance and infrastructure, and who is energized by building frameworks from scratch in a fast-moving environment. This position is based in San Francisco and requires in-person attendance 2-3 days per week. Key Responsibilities Finance lead for GPU compute spend, including budgeting, monthly forecasting, variance analysis, and financial plan maintenance Build and maintain detailed bottoms-up financial models for the GPU fleet, including capacity forecasts, cost driver analyses, and investment scenario modeling Develop deep expertise in GPU vendor contracts, pricing structures, and cost drivers, and surface optimization opportunities across the fleet Serve as subject matter expert for Perplexity's compute capacity plan, owning source of truth on utilization, committed-versus-consumed spend, and capacity by vendor and cluster Build internal token-cost curves distinguishing marginal from fully loaded serving cost, and translate them into internal and external token pricing Analyze the ROI of in-house inference and training, including opportunity cost across chip types, cluster configurations, and workloads, distilled into a framework for capacity deployment Partner closely with inference and infrastructure engineering to

About Us: Paytm is India's leading mobile payments and financial services distribution company. Pioneer of the mobile QR payments revolution in India, Paytm builds technologies that help small businesses with payments and commerce. Paytm's mission is to serve half a billion Indians and bring them to the mainstream economy with the help of technology. What are we building We are building a full-stack AI Agentic Platform that powers customer, sales and internal workflows end-to-end. Core capabilities are including but not limited to: *Multi-agent, multi-modal customer interactions. *Agents which can handle agent decision hubs. *Evaluation engines to score and diagnose interactions. *Generating insights from chat to improve SOP, Tools and Product *Flow Fine-tuning & deployment pipelines *Observability with agent telemetry systems Safety, governance, and cost optimization layer. What are we looking for We are looking for builders who have a passion for building great products and have demonstrated this through their projects in recent years. Competencies * Create explainable workflows for multi-agent systems * Design and operate evaluation systems for millions of conversations * Fine-tuning of language models and its deployment workflows * Architect low-latency pipelines for text/voice interactions * Ensure safety, auditability, and compliance by design * Partner with stakeholders including PM, Engineering, Design, Data Scientists, Ops, and Analysts to ship features across business lines * Create standards for prompt design, prompt improvement, agent traits, and safety checks * Build APIs, SDKs, and runtimes for agent execution * Mentor juniors and contribute to platform-wide thought leadership * Experience with multi-agent frameworks (AutoGen, LangGraph, Haystack, ReAct, Supervisor-Executor patterns) * Background in LLM ops including training, data pipelines, GPU scheduling * Experience with Voice & telephony integrations * Knowledge of safety model design o

At Affirm, we exist for the moments that matter—giving people a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees, no surprises, and no tradeoffs on what matters most. About the Capital Team The Capital team manages the financial foundation that supports Affirm’s lending and innovation. We lead the funding, liquidity, and risk management strategy across capital markets, treasury, deal structuring, analytics, and bank partnerships. The team secures efficient funding while supporting sustainable business growth. We balance cost, flexibility, and risk to ensure Affirm’s financial resilience through all economic cycles. By optimizing capital structure and managing liquidity, we help build a scalable and resilient financial platform. We’re looking for a smart, driven individual to join our Quantitative Markets team. The team is responsible for structuring and pricing Affirm’s debt funding deals, developing platforms and tools for optimizing funding strategies, and building models to analyze and predict the performance of Affirm’s consumer loans. The ideal candidate will have experience in structuring asset-backed transactions, working with rating agencies, and building quantitative models. Given the cross-functional nature of the role, the ideal candidate should have strong interpersonal and communication skills. What You’ll Do Work closely with the Capital Markets team to evaluate, structure and price consumer asset-backed transactions Develop and enhance capital structuring and pricing models tailored to Affirm’s consumer loan portfolio to enable efficient deal execution Build quantitative models to analyze and predict the performance of Affirm’s consumer loans Provide insights on capital markets deals to cross-functional teams for more optimal and efficient funding strategy and merchant pricing Partner cross-functionally with our Capital Markets, Treasury, Merchant Pricing, Credit, Commercial, Product and Engineering teams to evaluate funding, product

At Affirm, we exist for the moments that matter—giving people a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees, no surprises, and no tradeoffs on what matters most. About the Capital Team The Capital team manages the financial foundation that supports Affirm’s lending and innovation. We lead the funding, liquidity, and risk management strategy across capital markets, treasury, deal structuring, analytics, and bank partnerships. The team secures efficient funding while supporting sustainable business growth. We balance cost, flexibility, and risk to ensure Affirm’s financial resilience through all economic cycles. By optimizing capital structure and managing liquidity, we help build a scalable and resilient financial platform. We’re looking for a smart, driven individual to join our Quantitative Markets team. The team is responsible for structuring and pricing Affirm’s debt funding deals, developing platforms and tools for optimizing funding strategies, and building models to analyze and predict the performance of Affirm’s consumer loans. The ideal candidate will have experience in structuring asset-backed transactions, working with rating agencies, and building quantitative models. Given the cross-functional nature of the role, the ideal candidate should have strong interpersonal and communication skills. What You’ll Do Work closely with the Capital Markets team to evaluate, structure and price consumer asset-backed transactions Develop and enhance capital structuring and pricing models tailored to Affirm’s consumer loan portfolio to enable efficient deal execution Build quantitative models to analyze and predict the performance of Affirm’s consumer loans Provide insights on capital markets deals to cross-functional teams for more optimal and efficient funding strategy and merchant pricing Partner cross-functionally with our Capital Markets, Treasury, Merchant Pricing, Credit, Commercial, Product and Engineering teams to evaluate funding, product

Data Scientist Lead Location: Hong Kong (Hybrid) | Practice Area : Data & Analytics | Type: Permanent The Role As a Data Scientist Lead at Capco, you’ll help clients optimise fraud models, machine learning platforms and supporting Google Cloud infrastructure, turning detailed analysis into practical, implementation-ready recommendations. You’ll take a hands-on approach to improving model and platform performance, reliability and run-cost across GCP infrastructure and ML pipelines. Working closely with IT infrastructure teams, data scientists and fraud stakeholders, you’ll identify opportunities to reduce compute and inference costs while maintaining effective, resilient solutions. You’ll provide configuration-level and code-level guidance, supported by clear estimates of implementation effort, expected savings and measurable outcomes. You’ll also use approved AI tools and AI-enabled workflows where appropriate to accelerate analysis, improve insight and support delivery, while maintaining human judgement, appropriate review and responsible AI guardrails. What You’ll Do GCP engineering: Lead hands-on design, diagnostics and optimisation across compute, storage and network services, implementing monitoring and observability to improve cost, performance and reliability. Fraud ML modelling: Support the development, validation and deployment of fraud and ML models end-to-end, identifying measurable opportunities to reduce compute requirements, accelerate inference and improve automation. ML and data pipelines: Optimise pipelines spanning ingest, transformation, feature creation and serving, training and inference, with a focus on cost efficiency, performance, resilience and responsible AI-enabled automation where appropriate. Big data and distributed processing: Develop and tune large-scale batch and streaming workloads using Spark or similar technologies, improving efficiency, stability and production readiness. Engineering excellence: Apply strong Python and SQL sk

Req: CSQ327R249 Location: Tokyo, Japan At Databricks, we are on a mission to empower our customers to solve the world's toughest data and AI problems by utilizing the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. As a Sr. Delivery Solutions Architect, you will partner with Sales, Solutions Architecture, and Field Engineering to accelerate the adoption, growth, and strategic impact of Databricks with our most complex customers. You will serve as a senior technical advisor, helping customers design, implement, scale, and optimize complex data and AI solutions across business units, geographies, and product areas. This is a highly technical and strategic customer-facing role. You will define technical execution strategies for high-value accounts, drive architectural alignment across complex use cases, and orchestrate Databricks, customer, and partner teams to deliver measurable outcomes. You will build trusted relationships with senior technical and executive stakeholders while contributing expertise, frameworks, and best practices that scale beyond individual customer engagements. The Impact You Will Have Define technical execution strategy across high-value, complex customer accounts spanning multiple use cases, business units, geographies, or product areas Serve as a senior technical advisor to customer architects, technical leaders, and Director/VP-level stakeholders Design and influence secure, governed, scalable architectures while balancing performance, cost, reliability, and long-term platform strategy Orchestrate Databricks, customer, and implementation partner teams to align technical execution and accelerate strategic outcomes Anticipate platform maturity and scaling needs and establish technical standards for security, governance, developer experience, and operational excellence Drive adoption, consumption, and measurable business outcomes through technical strategy and execution Lead complex technical escalations spanning multiple systems, teams, or workloads Bui

As a Senior Technical Program Manager at NVIDIA you will act as the bridge between strategy, execution, and technical alignment, driving complex programs end-to-end. This role demands strong technical acumen, exceptional program management skills, and the ability to influence without authority across a dynamic, matrixed organization. You will collaborate across software engineering, product management, OEMs and other teams to deliver solutions that shape the future of accelerated computing, with focus on Multimedia technologies (audio and video). What you’ll be doing: Program Ownership. Lead multimedia programs from inception to delivery, ensuring timelines, milestones, and quality standards are met. Manage release checklists, post-release feedback, and continuous improvement initiatives. Maintain and continuously improve program plans; ensure project focus and execution against commitments. Create and maintain metrics that track execution effectiveness and program health. Technical Leadership: Deep dive into product architecture and design; maintain curiosity and technical proficiency. Collaborate with engineering teams to resolve technical challenges and optimize solutions. Stakeholder Management: Communicate decisions, progress, and risks clearly to stakeholders, customers at all levels. Build trust and influence across cross-functional teams. Strategic Thinking & Risk Management: Identify and mitigate risks proactively to prevent delays and cost overruns. Drive RCCA (Root Cause and Corrective Action) and ensure gaps are closed effectively. Communication & Information Management: Deliver precise, tailored information for diverse audiences and higher management. Consume complex data and bring clarity to discussions for actionable outcomes. Complex programs with sign

Who we are About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career. About the team This role is open to remote candidates located anywhere within the Eastern Time Zone. The Cash Platform team is part of Stripe's Money Movement Services Platform. We manage Stripe's FX and cash positions across the globe, owning two of the most commercially critical problems in our business: delivering the best possible FX trades for our users, and optimizing the cost and routing of cross-border payouts across countries. Stripe recently launched its own in-house bank, enabling near-instant movement of funds across accounts worldwide—and Cash Platform is at the center of bringing that infrastructure to Stripe's products and, increasingly, to our customers. What you'll do You'll work closely with engineering teams across Cash Platform and Money Movement Services, cross-functional partners spanning Legal, Treasury, Financial Crimes, and Sales, and senior stakeholders inside and outside Stripe. You'll define the strategy and roadmap for Stripe's FX and cross-border payout products, drive cost optimization and routing decisions at scale, and help shape the path toward monetizing Stripe's in-house banking infrastructure for users globally. Responsibilities You are expected to: Deeply understand the competitive landscape and define clear benchmarks for where Stripe's FX and cross-border payout products need to be Own the product strategy and roadmap for Cash Platform, balancing near-term cost and performance optimization with longer-term platform m