About Us

Fireworks is the platform for specialized intelligence, enabling companies to build, train, and serve AI models tailored to their own data, workflows, and products. Founded by the team behind PyTorch and backed by AMD, Atreides, Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, Lightspeed, NVIDIA, Sequoia Capital, and TCV, Fireworks powers production AI with hundreds of state-of-the-art open models across text, image, embedding, audio, and multimodal workloads. Today, Fireworks is a Series D company valued at $17.5 billion, bringing together an ambitious, collaborative team that's building the future of enterprise AI.

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and strategic Technical Accounting leader to support complex, high-impact transactions, with a particular focus on infrastructure investments, compute capacity arrangements, strategic partnerships, and commercial deal structures.

This role will serve as a trusted technical accounting advisor, partnering closely with Infrastructure, Finance, Corporate Development, Legal, Strategic Partnerships, and business leaders to evaluate complex transactions, influence deal structuring, and develop scalable accounting solutions.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in US GAAP and SEC reporting, strong commercial judgment, and the ability to navigate highly complex and evolving business arrangements. Experience in a Big Four National Office or Professional Practice Group is strongly preferred, particularly with exposure to complex transactions, infrastructure arrangements, and emerging accounting issues.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure, Compute & Strategic Deal Support

Serve as the primary technical accounting advisor for infrastructure and compute-related transactions, including data center arrangements, cloud and compute capacity commitments, equipment procurement, financing structures, and strategic infrastructure investments.

Partner with Infrastructure, Strategic Partnerships, Corporate Development, Finance, and Legal teams to evaluate and advise on complex commercial arrangements, strategic investments, and partnership transactions.

Provide proactive accounting guidance during deal negotiations and structuring, identifying accounting implications, risks, and opportunities early in the transaction lifecycle.

Evaluate complex and innovative deal structures, including capacity commitments, leases, financing arrangements, joint ventures, equity investments, and other strategic partnership models.

Technical Accounting Leadership

Serve as a subject matter expert on complex technical accounting matters, providing authoritative guidance and disclosure recommendations in compliance with US GAAP and SEC reporting requirements.

Research, analyze, and document accounting conclusions for complex and judgmental transactions through high-quality technical accounting memoranda.

Develop well-supported points of view grounded in authoritative accounting literature, while balancing technical rigor with practical business considerations.

Advise on complex accounting topics, including ASC 842 (Leases), ASC 810 (Consolidation), ASC 815 (Derivatives), ASC 470 (Debt), ASC 606 (Revenue Recognition), and other standards relevant to infrastructure and strategic arrangements.

Monitor emerging FASB and SEC developments, evaluate potential impacts, and proactively communicate accounting implications to stakeholders.

Cross-Functional Partnership & Execution

Build trusted relationships across Accounting, Finance, Legal, Corporate Development, Infrastructure, Strategic Partnerships, External Audit, and external advisors.

Collaborate with business leaders to translate complex accounting requirements into clear, actionable recommendations that enable informed business decisions.

Lead technical accounting discussions with external auditors and advisors, driving alignment and timely resolution of complex accounting matters.

Contribute to the development of scalable accounting policies, processes, and frameworks to support a rapidly evolving and increasingly complex business environment.