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Hybrid Infrastructure Finance Analyst

Xai · San Francisco & Palo Alto, CA, Estados Unidos Da América · Hybrid

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About xAI

xAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge.

Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity.

We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important.

All engineers and researchers are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.

About the Role

As the Infrastructure Finance Analyst, you’ll contribute to xAI’s corporate finance strategy by supporting operational KPI modeling to drive our rapid growth. This role requires a sharp, detail-oriented finance professional who can develop robust financial models for a pioneering AI company. Based in the Bay Area, you’ll be a key member of our dynamic finance team, helping to strengthen the financial foundation that fuels our innovation.

Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with xAI’s technical team to generate insights on compute and storage investments and commercial deals.
  • Develop and maintain financial models to monitor resource usage, track utilization, and identify inefficiencies across teams, users, and workloads.
  • Support regular audits of workloads to identify idle instances or over-provisioned resources.
  • Assist in analyzing cloud provider contracts, focusing on cost optimization while aligning with business needs. Provide input on financial terms such as contract duration, commitment, and reserved vs. on-demand instances.
  • Monitor storage requirements across the business and contribute recommendations for balancing speed, availability, and cost.
  • Work with the go-to-market team to analyze strategic customer deals, assessing margin profiles under various performance scenarios and supporting financial alignment for xAI and customers.
  • Analyze financial implications of hardware configurations for compute and inference clusters, creating models to clarify tradeoffs for business leaders.
  • Stay informed on infrastructure optimization best practices, contributing ideas to improve power usage, compute costs, cooling efficiency, and network bandwidth costs.
  • Provide clear, data-driven recommendations to leadership to support impactful decision-making.

Qualifications:

  • 3+ years of experience in infrastructure finance or related financial modeling roles.
  • Experience with public cloud financial modeling.
  • Familiarity with financial modeling for owned compute clusters.
  • Strong skills in financial modeling are essential.
  • A proactive performer who excels in fast-paced environments, with a focus on accuracy and adaptability.
  • Strong analytical skills with a track record of delivering reliable results under tight deadlines.
  • Excellent communication skills, able to present complex financial data clearly to varied stakeholders.

Annual Salary Range

$120,000 - $180,000 USD

xAI is an equal opportunity employer and does not unlawfully discriminate based on race, color, religion, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, medical conditions, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics. 

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act. 

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

xAI reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: 

  • Access to information technology systems and confidential information, including proprietary and trade secret information, and/or user data;
  • Interacting with internal and/or external clients and colleagues; and
  • Exercising sound judgment.

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