Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Anthropic is an AI research and development company focused on building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The Capacity Deployment Lead will own and scale compute capacity deployment across partner-operated data centers, managing site readiness, hardware bring-up, QA, acceptance, and structured handoff into production operations. This role requires strong on-site execution, vendor coordination, and process improvement to ensure deployment milestones are met across multiple sites and waves.

Responsibilities

• Own deployment outcomes for your assigned sites and data-hall waves: CUs and hall ready-for-service dates met, with exceptions closed out, or risk called early enough for leadership to act
• Engage from construction kickoff and confirm deployment readiness ahead of each wave - floor access, power, network, receiving paths, and partner staffing - working the gaps with the site operations partner and facilities counterparts before racks arrive
• Be on site at key points before and during delivery, deployment, QA, and close-out; verify the work with your own eyes rather than from a dashboard, and support the on-site teams with your direct expertise
• Work with partner's site leadership to ensure success through rack delivery and receiving, integration QA, power-on and network turn-up, and burn-in and validation, setting daily priorities and quality gates and confirming results against Anthropic-owned ticket and telemetry data
• Validate the handover gate for each CU and data hall: acceptance criteria met, burn-in complete, documentation delivered, spares positioned, ticketing live, and a structured handover into production operations and the maintenance program
• Turn best practices, optimization, and lessons learned from each deployment into program-wide improvements: procedures, checklists, acceptance standards, and metrics, so the next wave runs faster and cleaner than the last
• Extend the deployment program to new sites and platforms, adapting standards and acceptance criteria as the hardware changes
• Communicate deployment status, dependencies, constraints, and risk to engineering, capacity planning, the team that owns the overall site schedule, and leadership

Skills

• * Have 8+ years of experience in data center operations or hardware deployment as a manager, technical lead or related role, including accountability for delivery milestones
• * Can demonstrate a proven track record leading compute or network hardware deployments at a large scale across multiple sites or data-hall waves, from early floor access through ready for service
• * Have managed vendors, OEMs, or contract workforces to measurable outcomes: milestones, quality gates, operational reviews, and corrective action
• * Possess hands-on technical depth in server, network, and rack-level hardware, enough to independently verify deployment quality and audit vendor claims
• * Have built or substantially improved operational processes
• * Are comfortable working with schedule, ticket, and telemetry data to drive decisions
• * Can travel heavily and work on site for extended stretches, including during delivery surges and turn-up windows. 50% Travel expected
• * Possess a bachelor's degree in relevant domain or equivalent practical experience
• 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
• * 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

Benefits

• We offer competitive compensation and benefits
• Optional equity donation matching
• Generous vacation and parental leave
• Flexible working hours
• 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.
• 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.

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