Senior FP&A Analyst - Engineering & Product

About the Position

Senior FP&A Analyst - Engineering & Product

Join Lambda, a leader in AI cloud infrastructure, as a Senior FP&A Analyst for Engineering & Product. Manage budgets, optimize costs, and drive financial insights.

Location

• San Francisco Office (Fremont St)
• San Jose Office (First St)

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Responsibilities

Project Spend, Internal Capacity & Fleet Optimization

• Own project-level budgets, spend tracking, and cost-to-complete forecasts for Engineering and Product initiatives
• Quantify internal capacity consumption across development, testing, and benchmarking; build and maintain allocation and chargeback methodology
• Partner with Infrastructure and Engineering on fleet optimization, including utilization, idle capacity, instance mix, and reclamation opportunities
• Translate optimization opportunities into quantified savings and track realization against target

Product Investment ROI & R&D Analysis

• Build business cases and ROI models for product and R&D investments
• Establish post-investment measurement; track realized returns against the original underwriting
• Analyze R&D spend by initiative and support capitalization analysis with Accounting
• Provide prioritization frameworks and trade-off analysis 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 for new offerings
• Own stage-gate financial deliverables and launch readiness criteria
• Track post-launch performance against the launch case and inform go/no-go and scaling decisions

Engineering & Product Headcount and OpEx Management (BvA)

• Own OpEx and headcount planning, tracking, and reporting for the Engineering, Product, and Cloud Services organizations
• Maintain hiring plans, compensation assumptions, and organizational change tracking against approved headcount
• Prepare monthly and quarterly budget vs. actual analysis, identify key drivers, and partner with Engineering and Product leaders to explain performance
• Manage vendor, software, and tooling spend; support accrual and reclassification inputs with Accounting through the monthly close

Cash Flow Forecasting

• Build and maintain the operating cash flow forecast model, including timing of vendor payments, capacity commitments, and project spend
• Own the rolling near-term cash view; reconcile forecast to actuals and explain variances
• Model scenarios around deployment timing, payment terms, and financing structures
• Partner with Accounting and Treasury on payables timing, prepaids, and commitment schedules

Executive Reporting & Communication

• Deliver Cloud Services, Engineering, and Product insights for monthly business reviews, executive reviews, and board materials
• Translate complex technical and operational data into clear financial insight
• Provide actionable recommendations on cost efficiency, investment prioritization, and margin improvement

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field
• 4+ years experience in FP&A, corporate finance, investment banking, or consulting, ideally with a focus on Cloud / AI infrastructure, SaaS, Data centers, Telecom, Hardware, or industrials
• Direct experience partnering with Engineering or Product organizations on budget, roadmap, and investment decisions
• Extensive experience in financial modeling and analysis, with a deep expertise in constructing complex financial models and interpreting financial statements to drive strategic decision-making
• Excellent analytical, strategic thinking, and decision-making skills
• Strong Excel skills and experience with financial software systems
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment, balancing multiple complex projects
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex data clearly and concisely
• Team player with a positive attitude, strong work ethic, and a commitment to continuous improvement
• Ability to work in an ambiguous environment with very little direction

Nice to Have

• Prior experience in a startup or high-growth organization, demonstrating adaptability and flexibility to thrive in such environments
• Direct experience building or owning a cash flow forecast
• Experience with R&D capitalization, new product introduction, or product P&L ownership
• Working proficiency in SQL and comfort querying large data sets directly
• Familiarity with GPU compute, AI/ML workloads, or cloud infrastructure economics

We Offer

• Competitive salary range: $169K - $200K
• Generous cash & equity compensation
• Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
• Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
• 401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
• Flexible paid time off plan

About the Company

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Our customers range from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers. Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence. One person, one GPU.

Founded in 2012, with 500+ employees, and growing fast, Lambda has notable investors including TWG Global, US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT), Andra Capital, SGW, Andrej Karpathy, ARK Invest, Fincadia Advisors, G Squared, In-Q-Tel (IQT), KHK & Partners, NVIDIA, Pegatron, Supermicro, Wistron, Wiwynn, Gradient Ventures, Mercato Partners, SVB, 1517, and Crescent Cove. We have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG.

Our values are publicly available: Lambda Careers

Lambda is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.