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Ricursive Intelligence is a frontier AI lab building self-improving systems, starting with chip design. The company is reinventing chip development and closing the loop between AI and the hardware that fuels it, backed by $335M from Sequoia, Lightspeed, DST, and NVIDIA Ventures.
As Strategic Finance & Compute Lead, you will define and execute Ricursive's compute, partnership, and go-to-market strategy. This is a highly cross-functional role combining financial judgment, commercial creativity, and the ability to understand complex technical programs.
Key responsibilities include:
**Compute Strategy and Transactions:** Define near- and long-term compute strategy across model training, chip-design workloads, and customer programs. Build and manage relationships with cloud platforms, GPU providers, data-center operators, hardware companies, infrastructure investors, and financing partners. Develop and maintain a pipeline of compute capacity aligned with Ricursive's technical roadmap. Lead compute transactions from sourcing and diligence through financial evaluation, negotiation, structuring, and close. Partner with technical teams to translate requirements for compute, networking, storage, deployment timing, and reliability into commercial agreements. Evaluate opportunities across cost, availability, utilization, technical performance, counterparty risk, and strategic value. Develop market intelligence on capacity availability, pricing, provider economics, hardware roadmaps, and evolving commercial structures.
**Strategic Finance for Partnerships and Go-to-Market:** Structure large-scale AI infrastructure and custom silicon partnerships spanning multiple development and product generations. Translate technical roadmaps into business models, financial plans, commercial terms, and executable partnership structures. Develop creative transaction structures involving development funding, capacity commitments, licensing, milestone payments, strategic investment, equity, or warrants. Build and pressure-test financial models for capital-intensive infrastructure and silicon programs. Shape Ricursive's pricing, packaging, and commercial models across strategic customer engagements. Help define Ricursive's go-to-market strategy, including target customers, partnership models, market positioning, and paths from initial validation to multigeneration programs. Lead commercial negotiations with senior executives, corporate development teams, investors, financial institutions, and strategic partners. Drive internal alignment across leadership, technical, finance, and legal teams on economics, risk, and strategic priorities. Support broader corporate finance and strategic initiatives as Ricursive scales.
**Requirements:**
- 3–6+ years of experience 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 and the ability to evaluate long-term economics, capital requirements, risk, and return across complex agreements
- Demonstrated ability to translate technical or operational programs into clear commercial and financial structures
- Strong commercial judgment, negotiation skills, and executive-level communication
- Ability to independently manage multiple transactions and strategic initiatives in a fast-moving environment
- Interest in AI infrastructure, semiconductor design, and the evolving economics of frontier technology
**Preferred Qualifications:**
- Experience with AI compute, cloud infrastructure, data centers, semiconductors, or other capital-intensive technology sectors
- Direct experience negotiating compute-capacity, infrastructure, custom silicon, or multiyear technology-development agreements
- Familiarity with the technical and financial requirements of large-scale GPU infrastructure
- Experience developing new pricing models, partnership structures, or go-to-market strategies for emerging technology categories
- Track record of building relationships with senior executives, investors, financial institutions, and technically sophisticated counterparties
- Comfort operating where market structures, business models, and transaction standards are still being established
- Desire to build a strategic function alongside Ricursive's founders and help shape the company's long-term trajectory
