Lila Sciences
Finance Business Partner, AI & Software
Cambridge, MA USA +1 · Full-time · Posted Aug 14, 2026
- Location
- Cambridge, MA USA
One Charles Park, Cambridge, MA - Experience
- 7 to 10+ years in FP&A, strategic finance, investment banking, consulting, or similar analytical roles.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, engineering, math, or related field.
About the job
Partners with AI/ML and Infrastructure leaders to manage financial planning, performance, investment decisions, and cost visibility across technology resources.
What you'll do
- Lead financial planning, forecasts, runway scenarios, and headcount and capacity planning for technical teams.
- Analyze compute, GPU, LLM, cloud, storage, and pipeline costs; build models, KPIs, dashboards, and recommendations.
- Prepare Board and investor materials, support fundraising diligence, and improve FP&A tools and financial data quality.
What they ask for
- 7 to 10+ years in FP&A, strategic finance, investment banking, consulting, or similar analytical roles.
- Demonstrated zero-to-one experience building driver-based models, annual planning, rolling forecasts, KPI dashboards, and management reporting.
- Hands-on experience managing technology costs, including cloud infrastructure, compute/GPU, or AI/ML cost structures.
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, engineering, math, or related field.
Nice to have
- Startup or scale-up experience.
- Familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure and cloud economics, FinOps-style frameworks, LLM cost modeling, or planning tools.
Tools
AI/ML, GPU, LLM, cloud infrastructure, FP&A
AI focus
Financially manages AI/ML workloads, including compute and GPU infrastructure, LLM usage and API costs, inference and training costs, and optimization opportunities.
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