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The Director of Cost Accounting will lead all cost accounting, inventory, and cost-related financial activities across manufacturing, infrastructure, and AI compute operations. This role is critical to ensuring accurate costing, capitalized asset accounting, and cost transparency across both training and inference workloads. This role requires comfort operating in a fast-paced, evolving environment, where priorities may shift and processes are still being built. The successful candidate will be expected to ramp quickly, close gaps, and contribute immediately, bringing structure, judgment, and execution while helping where needed across the broader finance organization. You will partner closely with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, FP&A, Deployment, and Engineering to establish scalable costing models, strengthen controls, and support external reporting readiness as the company prepares to operate as a public company.
Job Responsibility:
Design and implement scalable cost accounting strategies aligned with company growth and IPO readiness
Partner with Supply Chain operations to establish best-in-class costing policies, procedures, and internal controls
Serve as a thought partner to Finance leadership on cost structure, margin drivers, and capital intensity
Operate effectively in a high-growth, fast-paced environment, balancing strategic leadership with hands-on execution as the business scales
Lead month-end and quarter-end close for cost accounting, inventory, and related reserves
Own product, system, and service costing methodologies across complex hardware systems and AI infrastructure
Manage cost allocations to products, services, and programs with clear audit support
Oversee inventory valuation, excess & obsolete analysis, and manufacturing accruals
Ensure SOX-compliant controls over inventory and costing processes
Partner with Manufacturing and Supply Chain to analyze BOMs, yields, labor, overhead, and supplier pricing
Support capacity planning, volume analysis, and make/buy decisions
Develop and maintain cost center budgets, headcount models, and allocation methodologies
Own accounting and cost modeling for data center fixed assets, including AI compute systems, servers, networking, power, and cooling infrastructure
Establish capitalization policies, useful lives, depreciation methods, and impairment assessments
Partner with Infrastructure and FP&A to forecast capital spend and depreciation expense
Develop and maintain inference cost allocation frameworks, including compute usage, power and cooling, data center overhead, depreciation, and support costs
Allocate inference costs across internal R&D, customer contracts, and commercial programs
Support unit economics, pricing decisions, and margin analysis for AI services and infrastructure offerings
Ensure compliance with GAAP, SOX, and internal policies
Prepare costing and inventory analyses for external auditors
Support SEC reporting and disclosures related to cost of revenue, inventory, and fixed assets
Assist with ad-hoc analyses and cross-functional initiatives as needed to support business priorities
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field (Master’s preferred)
10+ years of progressive cost accounting experience in manufacturing, hardware, or infrastructure-intensive environments
Up to 3 to 5 years of Big 4 early career experience will be viewed favorably
Strong knowledge of GAAP, inventory accounting, costing methodologies, and fixed assets
Experience with complex allocations and capital-intensive cost structures
Exposure to manufacturing systems is a must along with exposure to ERPs such as Oracle and NetSuite
CPA or CMA strongly preferred
What we offer:
Build a breakthrough AI platform beyond the constraints of the GPU
Publish and open source their cutting-edge AI research
Work on one of the fastest AI supercomputers in the world
Enjoy job stability with startup vitality
Our simple, non-corporate work culture that respects individual beliefs