Compute & Infrastructure Counsel, Real Estate

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 Compute & Infrastructure Counsel Real Estate at Anthropic youll drive legal execution for Anthropics largest physical infrastructure transactions: direct datacenter leases construction agreements and the financing structures that enable infrastructure investments at massive scale. This role focuses on facilities where Anthropic has direct control through ownership or long-term lease complementing the colo & networks and cloud compute legal teammates (facilities where Anthropic is tenant and our hyperscaler relationships respectively). Youll work in close partnership with specialized outside counsel on financing and real estate matters serving as the in-house coordinator who ensures external work product aligns with Anthropics commercial objectives and integrates with our overall compute strategy.

• Negotiate long-term datacenter leases with major developers and represent some of Anthropics largest and lengthiest capital commitments

• Coordinate construction-adjacent agreements including design-build contracts equipment procurement and commissioning schedules

• Manage legal workstreams for complex financing structures (e.g. sale-leasebacks tax components or project finance vehicles)

• Work closely with specialized outside counsel (real estate and financing specialists) ensuring their work product aligns with Anthropics commercial objectives

• Collaborate with compute teams transaction managers who handle operational execution and project management providing legal and risk management expertise

• Coordinate with finance and corporate development on strategic deal structuring

• Understand how datacenter legal structures interact with the compute capacity they will house e.g. power requirements cooling specifications security standards and expansion rights all flow from decisions made elsewhere in the Compute organization

• Escalate novel structures or terms that create downstream risk for Anthropics operational flexibility to managers; ensure facility designs accommodate AI-specific requirements including high-density power liquid cooling infrastructure and rapid scaling capacity

• JD and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar

• Fluency in commercial real estate and construction contracting; datacenter lease structures construction risk allocation and financing arrangements (and how they will interact)

• Experience with EPC AIA and design-build arrangements at scale

• Comfort with project finance structures and the interplay between lease financing and development agreements

• Ability to coordinate effectively with specialized outside counsel while maintaining strategic direction

• Strong judgment about when deal terms create downstream risk for operational flexibility

• Effective collaboration skills for working with business teams who handle transaction management and site selection

• Communication skills that translate complex real estate and financing concepts into clear risk assessments for business stakeholders

• Genuine interest in infrastructure development and appreciation for why datacenter capacity is mission-critical for frontier AI

• At least 8 years of relevant legal experience with meaningful exposure to infrastructure real estate transactions project finance or construction contracts

• In-house experience at datacenter developers supporting leasing project development and financing transactions

• Background at infrastructure private equity firms with exposure to datacenter or similar infrastructure investments

• Experience at large technology companies with datacenter construction programs supporting development transactions from the buy side

• Law firm experience at practices with infrastructure finance or project development specialization particularly those who have worked on datacenter power or similar infrastructure financings

• Prior involvement in transactions requiring sophisticated understanding of construction timelines commissioning requirements and operational handoff

• Familiarity with tax structures sale-leaseback arrangements or other financing vehicles used in large-scale infrastructure development

Role-specific policy: For this role we expect all staff to be able to work from our San Francisco or Seattle office at least 3 days a week though we encourage you to apply even if you might need some flexibility for an interim period of time.

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.