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title: 'Corporate Controller at Gimlet Labs'
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# Corporate Controller at Gimlet Labs

- **Company:** Gimlet Labs
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $280k–$325k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-19
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/gimlet/fb3653a5-5897-451a-a7c5-5ae733387c97

## Job description

## About us

Gimlet is building the first multi-silicon neocloud designed for fast, efficient AI inference. We combine large-scale compute infrastructure with an execution platform that partitions AI workloads and maps each stage to the hardware best suited to run it. We work with foundation labs, hyperscalers, and AI-native companies, giving our team access to technical problems spanning frontier models, production infrastructure, and emerging hardware.

## About the role

As Gimlet's Corporate Controller, you will own the accounting and financial operations foundation that supports the company as we scale. This is a build role, not a maintain role. Gimlet is growing quickly across customers, compute infrastructure, data centers, and financial complexity. We need someone who has operated through this stage before and can build the systems, processes, controls, and team required for what comes next. You will own Accounting and Financial Operations end to end, spanning close and reporting, technical accounting, audit, payroll, equity administration, cash management, procurement, AP, billing, and collections. You will also lead the evolution of our finance systems and controls as we build toward public-company readiness. This is a highly cross-functional role, partnering with Finance, GTM, Commerce, Engineering, Infrastructure, Legal, and company leadership. We're looking for someone with deep accounting expertise who is equally comfortable getting into the operational details of how the business works. What success looks like In your first 12–18 months, you will:

- Own Gimlet's monthly, quarterly, and annual close across a growing multi-entity organization, improving the speed and reliability of financial reporting.
- Lead consolidations and accounting across corporate entities and SPVs, partnering with Finance, Tax, Treasury, and Legal on complex transactions.
- Own technical accounting across revenue recognition, leases, fixed assets, stock-based compensation, and complex commercial arrangements.
- Lead external audits and build the policies, controls, and operating discipline required as Gimlet moves toward public-company readiness.
- Own Financial Operations across payroll, equity administration, cash operations, procurement, AP, billing, collections, and AR.
- Build scalable billing and collections processes as Gimlet introduces increasingly complex commercial and usage-based pricing models.
- Partner with Commerce and Engineering to translate how Gimlet's products are priced and consumed into reliable billing, accounting, and financial operations.
- Own and evolve Gimlet's accounting technology stack, including ERP implementation and adjacent financial systems.
- Use automation and AI to eliminate repetitive work and improve the team's efficiency and accuracy.
- Proactively evaluate material contracts and new business arrangements for accounting and operational implications.
- Build and develop the Accounting and Financial Operations organization as Gimlet scales.

You may be a good fit if you have

- 10+ years of progressive accounting experience with meaningful ownership of Accounting and Financial Operations.
- Operated as a Controller, Assistant Controller with significant ownership, or equivalent accounting leader inside a rapidly scaling company.
- Experience building an accounting function through meaningful private-company growth rather than only operating mature processes.
- Deep, current US GAAP expertise across revenue recognition, fixed assets, leases, stock-based compensation, and complex commercial arrangements.
- Personally owned a full close and consolidation across multiple legal entities.
- Hands-on experience across payroll, equity administration, AP, billing, collections, and cash operations.
- Led external audits and helped build the systems, controls, and policies required for increasing audit and public-company readiness.
- Experience implementing or scaling an ERP and surrounding financial systems.
- Strong cross-functional judgment and the ability to communicate complex accounting issues clearly to non-accountants.
- The ability to operate independently at high volume and build the processes you wish existed.

Strong candidates may also have

- Started their career in Big Four public accounting before moving into industry.
- Experience preparing a high-growth private company for an IPO or operating through the transition to becoming public.
- Experience in AI infrastructure, cloud, data centers, hardware, SaaS, or another financially complex technology business.
- Experience with usage-based pricing, high-volume billing, SPVs, equipment financing, or infrastructure-related arrangements.
- Experience partnering closely with FP&A, Strategic Finance, or Capital Markets.
- Experience building and leading accounting and financial operations teams through rapid growth.
- CPA or equivalent accounting qualification.

Why join now? Gimlet is expanding from its core technology into a production neocloud spanning new hardware, customers, and data centers.

- Solve hard problems.
- Own meaningful work.
- Build for production.
- Help define what’s next.

Agency Policy: Gimlet Labs does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or search firms. Any unsolicited resumes submitted without a signed agreement will be considered the property of Gimlet Labs, and no fees will be paid.

## About Gimlet Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Gimlet Labs is an applied research lab building next-generation AI infrastructure, specifically a multi-silicon inference cloud that optimizes and orchestrates AI agent workloads across diverse hardware.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Zain Asgar (CEO), Michelle Nguyen, Natalie Serrino, Omid Azizi

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI Infrastructure / Software Development
- **Target customers**: Large AI model labs, data centers, and enterprises running complex AI agent workloads (B2B, Enterprise).
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To build next-generation AI infrastructure that makes AI workloads 10x more efficient by intelligently orchestrating them across diverse hardware.

## Products & Services
- **Gimlet Cloud**: A serverless inference platform for AI agents. It allows users to run everything from simple agents to complex multi-agent systems with custom logic and data sources. The platform handles scheduling, orchestration, and optimization across diverse hardware. [gimletlabs.ai](https://gimletlabs.ai/)
- **kforge**: An autonomous kernel generation tool that creates optimized low-level kernels directly from PyTorch. It uses a multi-agent system to explore designs, enforce correctness, and identify the fastest kernels for backends like CUDA, ROCm, and Metal. [gimletlabs.ai](https://gimletlabs.ai/)
- **Multi-Silicon Inference Cloud**: A software layer that allows AI workloads to be simultaneously run across diverse types of hardware (CPUs, GPUs, high-memory systems), splitting work to use the best chip for each portion of the model. [techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/23/startup-gimlet-labs-is-solving-the-ai-inference-bottleneck-in-a-surprisingly-elegant-way/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $92M (Seed: $12M led by Factory; Series A: $80M led by Menlo Ventures). The company publicly launched with eight-figure revenues (at least $10M). [techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/23/startup-gimlet-labs-is-solving-the-ai-inference-bottleneck-in-a-surprisingly-elegant-way/)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Menlo Ventures (Series A lead), Factory (Seed lead), Eclipse Ventures, Prosperity7, Triatomic. Angel investors include Sequoia’s Bill Coughran, Stanford Professor Nick McKeown, former VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram, and Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan. Chip partners include NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, ARM, Cerebras, and d-Matrix. [techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/23/startup-gimlet-labs-is-solving-the-ai-inference-bottleneck-in-a-surprisingly-elegant-way/)
- **Growth Signals**: The company publicly launched with eight-figure revenues (at least $10M). Customer base has more than doubled in the last four months, including a major model maker and a large cloud computing company. Headcount has grown 966.7% year-over-year to 25-30 employees. [techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/23/startup-gimlet-labs-is-solving-the-ai-inference-bottleneck-in-a-surprisingly-elegant-way/) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/gimletlabs)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Multi-Silicon Orchestration**: The only platform that can simultaneously run AI workloads across diverse hardware (CPUs, GPUs, high-memory systems), splitting models to use the best chip for each portion. This claims to improve inference speed by 3x-10x for the same cost and power. [techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/23/startup-gimlet-labs-is-solving-the-ai-inference-bottleneck-in-a-surprisingly-elegant-way/)
- **Autonomous Kernel Generation (kforge)**: Uses AI agents to automatically generate optimized low-level kernels from PyTorch, supporting CUDA, ROCm, and Metal without manual coding. [gimletlabs.ai](https://gimletlabs.ai/)
- **Deep Research Focus**: As an applied research lab, they are working on cutting-edge problems like universal AI compilers, SLA-aware scheduling, and headless hardware architectures, giving them a long-term technological moat. [gimletlabs.ai](https://gimletlabs.ai/)
- **Strong Founding Team**: Founders have deep expertise in systems and infrastructure, with a prior successful exit (Pixie Labs acquired by New Relic). [techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/23/startup-gimlet-labs-is-solving-the-ai-inference-bottleneck-in-a-surprisingly-elegant-way/)

## Strategic Focus
- **Productizing Research**: Translating cutting-edge research (universal AI compilers, autonomous kernel generation) into commercial products like Gimlet Cloud and kforge. [gimletlabs.ai](https://gimletlabs.ai/)
- **Scaling the Multi-Silicon Cloud**: Expanding their inference cloud to serve the largest AI model labs and data centers, with a focus on efficiency and cost reduction. [techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/23/startup-gimlet-labs-is-solving-the-ai-inference-bottleneck-in-a-surprisingly-elegant-way/)
- **Talent Acquisition**: Aggressively hiring across AI research, kernel/GPU performance, compilers, distributed systems, and business operations to support rapid growth. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/gimlet)

## Why Work Here
- **Cutting-Edge Research & Engineering**: Work on fundamental AI infrastructure problems—autonomous kernel generation, universal AI compilers, and multi-silicon orchestration—alongside PhD-level researchers and top-tier engineers. [gimletlabs.ai](https://gimletlabs.ai/join_us)
- **High-Growth Environment**: The company has grown nearly 10x in headcount over the past year and is backed by top-tier VCs (Menlo Ventures, Sequoia angels). This is an early-stage opportunity with significant impact. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/gimletlabs)
- **Fast-Moving Team**: Described as a "fast moving team with both AI research and industry expertise," looking for "builders" who love rapid prototyping. [gimletlabs.ai](https://gimletlabs.ai/join_us)
- **Location**: Based in San Francisco, California. The office is at 255 Potrero Ave. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/gimletlabs)
- **Culture**: The company values researchers, builders, and strategists. The team includes alumni from Pixie Labs, Amazon, Google, AMD, Intel, and Groq. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/gimletlabs)

## Sources
1. [gimletlabs.ai](https://gimletlabs.ai/)
2. [gimletlabs.ai/join_us](https://gimletlabs.ai/join_us)
3. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/gimlet)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/gimletlabs)
5. [techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/23/startup-gimlet-labs-is-solving-the-ai-inference-bottleneck-in-a-surprisingly-elegant-way/)

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