Capacity Deployment Lead - Data Center Operations

Friendly · Friendly US (Travel Required) · USD 320,000-405,000 / year · 8+ years experience · Remote · Posted Sep 22, 2026

At a glance

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.

As a Capacity Deployment Lead within Anthropic's Data Center Operations organization, you will support and scale how new compute capacity comes online across partner-operated data centers.
This is a program and execution role focused on compute infrastructure, accelerator systems, racks, and surrounding environments from construction kickoff to ready for service.
You will work closely with hardware vendors, operations partners, and internal teams while engaging in heavy on-site travel to ensure successful infrastructure delivery and structured handover.

Own deployment outcomes for assigned sites and data-hall waves, ensuring capacity units and ready-for-service dates are met.
Engage from construction kickoff and confirm deployment readiness ahead of each wave including floor access, power, network, and receiving paths.
Be on site at key points before and during delivery, deployment, QA, and close-out to verify work directly.
Work with partner site leadership to manage rack delivery, receiving, integration QA, power-on, network turn-up, and burn-in validation.
Validate handover gates for each capacity unit and data hall to ensure acceptance criteria and documentation are met.
Turn best practices, optimization, and lessons learned from each deployment into program-wide improvements and procedures.
Extend the deployment program to new sites and platforms while adapting standards as hardware changes.
Communicate deployment status, dependencies, constraints, and risk to engineering, capacity planning, schedule owners, and leadership.

8+ years of experience in data center operations or hardware deployment as a manager, technical lead, or related role with accountability for delivery milestones.
Proven track record leading compute or network hardware deployments at a large scale across multiple sites or data-hall waves.
Experience managing vendors, OEMs, or contract workforces to measurable outcomes like milestones, quality gates, and operational reviews.
Hands-on technical depth in server, network, and rack-level hardware to independently verify deployment quality and audit vendor claims.
Experience building or substantially improving operational processes.
Comfort working with schedule, ticket, and telemetry data to drive decisions.
Ability to travel heavily (50% expected) and work on site for extended stretches during delivery surges and turn-up windows.
Bachelor's degree in a relevant domain or equivalent practical experience.

Experience with GPU/accelerator or high-density liquid-cooled infrastructure, including bring-up of liquid-cooled racks.
Experience standing up operations at a new site or data hall from commissioning handoff through first deployment.
Experience deploying more than one accelerator platform, or introducing a new hardware platform into an existing deployment program.
Experience delivering deployment outcomes inside partner-operated or colocation sites where on-the-floor operations are staffed via third parties.
Familiarity with dense accelerator network cabling, optics, and high-speed interconnect at rack and pod scale.

Travel required at 50%+ expected.
Location-based hybrid policy requiring staff to be in an office at least 25% of the time, though some roles may require more.