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tau
Redwood City, CA
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Tau
Power conversion is the bottleneck between the compute, energy, and mobility industries and the future they're trying to build. Most of the industry is still solving it with decades-old approaches. Tau is fixing that. We're a venture-backed hardtech company in Redwood City, building power conversion technology for data centers, EVs, and energy systems. Several products are already moving into production.
We hire people who own problems end-to-end: power electronics, embedded software, controls, test and validation, mechanical design. We solve from first principles, not legacy playbooks. We're past "promising technology." Customers are buying, volume is coming, and the people who join now set the standard everyone builds on after.
Every consequential decision a hardtech company makes - a large automotive supply deal, a capital-intensive bet, where to put the next dollar of headcount - gets made on a model somebody built. If the model is wrong, or nobody trusts it, the company makes the wrong call and doesn't find out until it's expensive.
Tau is a Series B company developing next-generation power conversion technology that's transformational to any industry it touches. Our products are already making waves with automotive customers, and we're sizing up energy, datacenters, and defense as the next markets to prove out.
We hire people who own problems end to end. On the finance side, that means deal structuring, capital allocation, pricing, planning, and market entry, not waiting for a request and handing back a spreadsheet. We're past "promising technology." Customers are buying, volume is coming, and the person who takes this role sets the standard for how Tau makes its biggest financial decisions.
You'll be our first dedicated finance hire and the person leadership turns to for framing the company's most important decisions. Some of that is model-driven strategy: should we chase this new market, what should this deal actually cost the customer, where does the next dollar of headcount or R&D spend do the most good. Some of it is infrastructure: forecasting, budgeting, the long-range plan, the basic financial hygiene a company our size doesn't have yet.
This role is high-ownership and high-ambiguity. There is no playbook here. You will write it.
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