Data Center Facility Operations Lead

Anthropics 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.

As the Facility Operations Lead within the Data Center Infrastructure organization you will define and manage end-to-end operations across Anthropics growing fleet of data center infrastructure. You will be accountable for the global operations management of critical mechanical electrical plumbing and control systems. As a subject matter expert in data center infrastructure and operations you will develop scalable processes for execution help manage data center partners & vendors lead deployment schedules and maintain close coordination with related disciplines such as design engineering and capacity planning. If you are experienced in operations are passionate about HPC data centers & enjoy working in complex fast-paced environments we welcome you to apply.

• Define the Facility Operations strategy including SLAs incident management reporting methods and approaches for reporting.

• Oversee third-party deployment commissioning and ongoing maintenance of facility infrastructure such as switch gear technology cooling systems and computer room air handlers.

• Define expectations and standards to enable third-party success in each of the critical operations domains.

• Create standards for monitoring data center systems operation minimizing risk and effectively responding to/managing excursions and incidents.

• Develop innovative approaches to improve time to market and equipment availability while minimizing cost and complexity.

• Enable scale-out of operations through industry best practices optimization of bill of materials logistics and physical processes.

• Manage partner relationships and maintain alignment with Anthropic goals.

• Have 10 years of experience in data center facility operations as a manager engineer technical lead or related role.

• Can demonstrate a proven track record overseeing a portfolio of mission critical systems.

• Are a subject matter expert in facility operations process development including deployment commissioning & maintenance.

• Are experienced in third-party partner relationship management.

• Bachelors degree in relevant domain or equivalent practical experience.

• 15 years of experience managing operations for large scale data centers.

• An understanding of AI/ML workloads including power cooling and network connectivity

• Experience supporting technology cooling solutions such as rear door heat exchangers and/or cooling distribution units

• Experience managing third-party datacenters such as colo operators and/or contract staffing vendors.

• Familiarity with data center facilities commissioning processes including developing commissioning plans creating criteria and conducting hand-over reviews

Minimum education: Bachelors 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 arent 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.

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 youre interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones were 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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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. Were 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.

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 aboutour policy for using AI in our application process.