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Lambda is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers globally, from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers. The company's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and democratize access to superintelligence.
As Senior FP&A Analyst for Engineering & Product, you will own financial planning and analysis across the company's core technical organizations. Your responsibilities span five major areas:
**Project Spend & Fleet Optimization**: Manage project-level budgets and spend tracking for Engineering and Product initiatives. Quantify internal capacity consumption across development, testing, and benchmarking. Partner with Infrastructure teams on fleet optimization—utilization, idle capacity, instance mix, and reclamation—translating opportunities into quantified savings.
**Product Investment ROI & R&D Analysis**: Build business cases and ROI models for product and R&D investments. Establish post-investment measurement frameworks and track realized returns. Analyze R&D spend by initiative, support capitalization analysis with Accounting, and provide prioritization frameworks for competing investment requests.
**New Product Introduction (NPI) Management**: Serve as the finance partner across the NPI lifecycle from concept through launch and ramp. Model pricing, unit economics, margin, and volume assumptions. Own stage-gate financial deliverables and track post-launch performance to inform scaling decisions.
**Headcount & OpEx Management**: Own OpEx and headcount planning for Engineering, Product, and Cloud Services organizations. Maintain hiring plans, compensation assumptions, and organizational tracking. Prepare monthly and quarterly budget vs. actual analysis and manage vendor/software/tooling spend.
**Cash Flow Forecasting**: Build and maintain the operating cash flow forecast model, including vendor payments, capacity commitments, and project spend. Own the rolling near-term cash view and model scenarios around deployment timing and financing structures.
**Executive Reporting**: Deliver insights for monthly business reviews, executive reviews, and board materials. Translate complex technical and operational data into clear financial insight and provide actionable recommendations on cost efficiency and margin improvement.
You bring 4–7 years of FP&A, corporate finance, investment banking, or consulting experience, ideally with exposure to Cloud, AI infrastructure, SaaS, data centers, or hardware. You have direct experience partnering with Engineering or Product organizations on budgets and investment decisions. You excel at financial modeling, interpreting financial statements, and communicating complex data clearly. You thrive in fast-paced, high-growth environments and can work effectively with ambiguity. Nice-to-have skills include startup experience, cash flow forecast ownership, R&D capitalization knowledge, SQL proficiency, and familiarity with GPU compute or cloud infrastructure economics.
The role requires presence in the San Francisco or San Jose office 4 days per week, with Tuesday designated as the work-from-home day.
