Associate, Infrastructure Strategy & Operations

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San Francisco, CA, USA
In-Office
220K-260K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Information Technology
The Role
The Manager will analyze and benchmark compute infrastructure sourcing and operations, driving strategic decisions and optimizing resource allocation across sites and vendors.
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About The Role

Together AI is rapidly scaling its compute infrastructure across multiple sites and deployment types. The Associate, Infrastructure Strategy & Operations will be the analytical backbone of the Infrastructure Strategy team, powering the research, benchmarking, and operational analysis across the team's core workstreams, including capacity planning, compute sourcing, vendor evaluation, and site selection.

You'll be the person who keeps the team organized and well-informed as infrastructure scales, partnering closely with Infra Eng and Finance to ensure timely, data-backed decisions.

Responsibilities
  • Support the Infrastructure Strategy team's planning process by gathering data, running comparisons, and preparing materials and recommendations for leadership reviews.
  • Build internal trackers and dashboards that help the team monitor infrastructure deployments, vendor pipelines, and compute allocations across products and customers
  • Maintain and improve the team's sourcing comparison frameworks across location, vendor, and site evaluation workstreams, in partnership with Finance and Infra Eng.
  • Run analyses to support capacity allocation decisions.
  • Research and evaluate data center sites and energy sourcing options, comparing power availability, connectivity, permitting timelines, deployment readiness, and reliability.
  • Champion process improvements across the Infrastructure Strategy function, collaborating cross-functionally with Engineering, Data, and Finance to design AI-native workflows that streamline operations and automate repetitive analysis.
  • Take on ad hoc analytical projects as priorities evolve, operating with speed and minimal direction.
Requirements
  • 3+ years of experience in management consulting, business operations, strategy, or a similar analytically rigorous role.
  • Proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets, familiarity with SQL or data visualization tools, and comfort with AI productivity tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex).
  • Strong quantitative skills with a data-driven approach to problem-solving and comfort building analyses from scratch.
  • Ability to learn new domains quickly and operate effectively in unfamiliar territory.
  • Organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and keep information current.
  • Clear communicator who can present data and comparisons to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Nice to Have
  • Prior experience at a high-growth startup or AI company.
  • Exposure to cloud infrastructure, data center strategy, or GPU/compute procurement.
  • Interest or background in power markets, energy procurement, and/or hardware.
About Together AI

Together AI, the AI Native Cloud, is purpose-built for AI engineers. AI application developers get high-performance inference that scales reliably, fine-tuning and reinforcement learning for creating frontier-level specialized models, and pre-training at massive scale for fully custom intelligence, all around a marketplace of leading open models that teams can run, adapt, and own. Trusted by Cursor, Decagon, ElevenLabs, Salesforce, and Zoom, Together serves 400+ trillion tokens a month.

Compensation

We offer competitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance, and other benefits, as well as flexibility in terms of remote work. The US base salary range for this full-time position is: $140-170K + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by location, level and role. Individual compensation will be determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.

Equal Opportunity

Together AI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more. Please see our Privacy Policy at https://www.together.ai/privacy

Skills Required

  • 5+ years of experience in management consulting, business operations, strategy, capacity planning or similar roles
  • Strong quantitative skills with a data-driven decision-making approach
  • Prior experience at a high-growth startup or AI company
  • Proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets and familiarity with SQL or data visualization tools

Together AI Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Together AI and has not been reviewed or approved by Together AI.

  • Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive for the company’s stage, with especially strong offers for technical and research roles. A posted AI researcher range reaching into the high-$200Ks alongside equity and benefits reinforces the overall pay positioning.
  • Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is commonly included alongside base salary, giving employees ownership exposure tied to company growth. Total compensation is often framed around salary plus equity for specialized roles.
  • Flexible Benefits — Job listings describe a flexible time‑off policy and hybrid or remote work options. Commuter perks and regular team events are also cited as part of the package.

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The Company
HQ: Surry Hills
84 Employees
Year Founded: 2022

What We Do

Together AI is a research-driven artificial intelligence company. We contribute leading open-source research, models, and datasets to advance the frontier of AI. Our decentralized cloud services empower developers and researchers at organizations of all sizes to train, fine-tune, and deploy generative AI models. We believe open and transparent AI systems will drive innovation and create the best outcomes for society

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