Senior Capacity Planner

Details

Anthropic’s Compute team is looking for a Senior Capacity Planner to lead capacity planning and forecasting of our global infrastructure fleet. You will work closely with research, engineering, and finance teams to model supply and demand and build capacity allocation plans that help Anthropic stay on the frontier. You will ensure engineering and model roadmaps stay aligned with the capacity plan and manage execution against the plan with stakeholders across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop a system for capacity planning that handles fast-changing AI workloads on heterogeneous infrastructure.
• Own source-of-truth artifacts for capacity planning with reliable actuals and weekly forecasts.
• Build an in-depth understanding of research and training workloads to increase forecasting accuracy over time.
• Proactively identify risks and changes to capacity needs early and work with stakeholders to find appropriate solutions.
• Identify efficiency opportunities and run cross-team initiatives to increase total effective compute for Anthropic.
• Partner closely with senior leaders, providing detailed and clear capacity plans and inputs for decision making.

Requirements

• Experience working on capacity planning at a major cloud provider or hyperscaler company, or equivalent experience.
• Experience working with research teams and partnering with senior research and engineering leadership.
• Familiarity with or a deep interest in learning about LLM model training and serving efficiency (training and inference workloads).
• Experience driving org-wide technical programs and collaborating with technical stakeholders.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and distilling uncertainty into actionable scenario planning.
• Comfortable leveraging data and making data-driven recommendations.
• Strong interpersonal skills enabling influence without authority and building cross-organizational support for capacity initiatives.
• We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

Strong candidates may also have

• Past experience with capacity planning specifically for LLM model training and inference.
• Past experience partnering with senior research and engineering leadership.

Representative projects

• Build a week-by-week capacity forecast for H2 ’25 that incorporates model training plans, inference growth, and key technical constraints.
• Build a matrix for workload:model:platform support and a tracker for engineering workstreams that impact capacity fungibility.

Logistics

• Location: San Francisco, CA and Seattle, WA (location-based hybrid policy: currently expect staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time).
• Visa sponsorship: Anthropic may sponsor visas and retains an immigration lawyer to assist where possible.
• Deadline to apply: None (applications reviewed on a rolling basis).

Compensation & Benefits

• Annual salary range: $365,000 - $565,000 USD.
• Anthropic offers competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and office space for collaboration.

Notes

• The role requires close collaboration with research, engineering, and finance and emphasizes capacity planning, forecasting, and improving model training and serving efficiency.