Energy Special Projects

About Anthropic

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.

What is the need and role

Anthropic's mission depends on compute, and compute depends on power. Today, energy is increasingly the binding constraint on how fast frontier AI infrastructure comes online. The energy team sources, structures, and contracts that power, and its work touches nearly every part of the company and a growing set of people outside it.

We're looking for someone to join the energy team in a special projects role: to take on the problems that don't sit inside any one deal or region, and to carry them wherever they lead. That means working in three circles. Inside Compute, with the teams that site, design, build, finance, and operate our data centers. Across Anthropic, with policy, legal, communications, finance, and the other teams that need energy depth or whose work shapes ours. And outside the company, with FERC, state commissions and agencies, RTOs and ISOs, utilities, industry working groups, and other large energy customers.

It's a "figure it out / get it done" role for someone who can chase down issues while bringing real depth in energy: the kind of person who can untangle a power delivery problem with design and delivery in the morning, brief the policy team on what a FERC proceeding means for our sites in the afternoon, speak for us on a working group call the next day, and then pick up an unrelated problem the energy team needs solved that week. Much of the job is building coalitions among complex, multi-functional groups of stakeholders, and then running the project all the way to completion.

What you'll do

1/ Inside Compute

• Working with the head of energy, pick up cross-functional problems as they arise that have no natural owner, work them with the teams involved to a decision, process, or tool, then hand them off and move on to the next one.

• Connect the energy commercial leads with site selection, data center design, delivery, operations, and finance, so that everyone plans on the same assumptions about power: when it arrives, how much, how reliable, and at what cost.

• Write the strategy documents, decision memos, and leadership updates that explain the energy team's choices to executives who do not work in energy.

• Build the processes and tools, with Claude, that keep the team's commitments, open decisions, and stakeholder record current, so none of it depends on one person's memory.

• Run the team's planning rhythm: priorities, headcount plan, consultant roster, and follow-up on open decisions.

2/ Across Anthropic

• Be the energy team's first point of contact for policy, legal, communications, community relations, finance, and other teams, and make sure their questions get a fast, accurate answer from the right person.

• Serve as an energy subject matter expert for the policy team and work with them on the company's positions on energy issues.

• Give communications and community relations plain answers on what a site's power supply means for local rates, reliability, and emissions.

• Keep what we sign and what we say in public consistent with each other and with Anthropic's ratepayer-protection commitment.

• Prepare energy team leaders and executives for outside meetings, panels, and testimony, and follow through on what comes out of them.

3/ Outside the company

• Represent the energy team in the industry working groups, trade associations, large-customer coalitions, and research collaborations we belong to: sit in the room, shape the work, and bring back what matters.

• Working with policy and legal, engage with FERC, state commissions, agencies and legislatures, and RTO and ISO stakeholder processes on the issues that affect our portfolio.

• Tell the commercial leads what a proposed tariff or rule does to a deal early enough to change the negotiation.

• Build and keep relationships with utilities, grid operators, regulators' staff, and counterparts at other large-load customers.

• Manage the outside counsel, consultants, and analysts who support this work: scope, budget, and quality.

You may be a good fit if you

• Have 6+ years in energy policy, energy markets, or energy strategy.

• Have built coalitions among complex, multi-functional stakeholder groups, inside and outside your own organization.

• Have run projects to completion, from an unclear question to a finished result, across teams that do not report to you.

• Can read a tariff, an energy services agreement, or a FERC order yourself and explain what it means commercially for a large customer.

• Know how state commissions and RTO or ISO stakeholder processes work in practice.

• Write quickly and plainly, for executives outside energy and for outside audiences.

• Have good judgment about what to say in public, who should say it, and when to say nothing.

• Are comfortable with unscoped work and with switching between very different problems in the same week.

Strong candidates may also have

• Experience with data centers or other large loads, on the customer, developer, or utility side.

• Commercial experience: time spent negotiating utility service agreements, energy services agreements, or PPAs, or advising the people who do.

• Time in a chief of staff, strategy, or consulting role.

• Direct experience in a FERC or state commission proceeding, or in an RTO or ISO working group.

• Familiarity with gas as well as power.

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. 

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary:$320,000—$405,555 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

For roles performing work in California: We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records or criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed.  Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

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How we're different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.