Data Center Energy Lead

Details

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

This role sits on Anthropic's Infrastructure team and focuses on securing power capacity and accelerating energy delivery for a rapidly expanding AI compute footprint. The Data Center Energy Lead will operate at the intersection of energy markets, utility operations, and AI infrastructure needs, leading multi-hundred megawatt procurement efforts and building strategic relationships with utilities, grid operators, and regulators across multiple jurisdictions.

Responsibilities

• Lead energy procurement and markets strategy to secure multi-hundred megawatt power capacity for AI infrastructure, structuring utility partnerships and commercial agreements that prioritize speed-to-energization and scale.
• Own utility and regulatory stakeholder management across multiple jurisdictions, building strategic relationships with ISOs, transmission operators, and utilities to accelerate interconnection timelines and unlock constrained capacity.
• Drive energy markets and policy strategy for AI compute facilities, monitoring regulatory developments and engaging policymakers to address grid capacity challenges and expedite approval processes for critical infrastructure.
• Partner with engineering and delivery teams to translate energy market dynamics and utility constraints into actionable capacity acceleration strategies that align procurement schedules with aggressive project timelines.
• Develop deep market intelligence on regional power availability, transmission constraints, and interconnection queue dynamics to inform site selection and deployment strategy.
• Structure innovative commercial frameworks and partnership models that enable faster power delivery and mitigate grid capacity risks across Anthropic's datacenter portfolio.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in energy procurement, utility development, or power markets for large-scale infrastructure projects.
• Deep expertise in wholesale power markets, utility interconnection processes, and transmission system planning.
• Experience securing 100+ MW of power capacity and navigating complex utility service agreements or power purchase agreements (PPAs).
• Proficiency in analyzing energy market dynamics, regulatory frameworks, and grid constraints to inform strategic decision-making.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and experience building relationships with utilities, ISOs/RTOs, regulators, and policymakers.
• Excellent communication skills, able to translate complex grid and regulatory dynamics into actionable business strategies for technical and non-technical audiences.

Strong candidates may also have

• Past experience with energy procurement specifically for datacenters, high-performance computing, or AI/ML infrastructure.
• Familiarity with hyperscale infrastructure requirements and the unique power demands of large-scale AI training and inference workloads.
• Experience with regulatory affairs, energy policy advocacy, or engagement with state/federal energy commissions (FERC, state PUCs).
• Background in transmission planning, interconnection study processes, or grid capacity analysis.
• Understanding of emerging grid technologies (energy storage, demand response, distributed energy resources) and how they can accelerate capacity delivery.
• Track record of structuring creative solutions to overcome grid constraints and compressed timelines in competitive power markets.

Compensation

Annual Salary: $1 - $2 USD

The total compensation package for full-time employees includes equity, benefits, and may include incentive compensation.

Logistics

• Location: San Francisco, CA
• Education: At least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience required.
• Location-based hybrid policy: We expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time; some roles may require more time in office.
• Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas when possible and retain an immigration lawyer to assist.

How we're different

We believe high-impact AI research is big science and work as a single cohesive team on a few large-scale research efforts. We value impact, collaboration, communication, and frequent research discussions. Our research directions include prior work such as GPT-3, interpretability, scaling laws, AI & Compute, and learning from human preferences.

Benefits

Competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and an office in San Francisco. Guidance on candidate AI usage is provided via our policy linked in the original posting.