Capacity Deployment Lead - Remote-Friendly Data Centers

Anthropic; United States; Hybrid; USD 320,000 - 405,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Capacity Deployment Lead for its Data Center Operations team. You will own deployment outcomes across sites, manage on-site teams, and oversee installation, QA, burn-in, and handover to production.

Expect 50%+ travel and close collaboration with vendors and partners to deliver compute capacity. This role requires 8+ years in data center operations or hardware deployment, hands-on server/rack expertise, and proven vendor management.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data center operations or hardware deployment leadership.
• Proven track record delivering deployments at scale across multiple sites.
• Experience managing vendors/OEMs and contract workforces.
• Hands-on depth in server, network, and rack hardware.
• Willingness to travel 50%+ and work on-site.

Responsibilities

• Own deployment outcomes for 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

Data center ops

Hardware deployment

Vendor management

Project management

Travel

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a Capacity Deployment Lead for its Data Center Operations team. You will own deployment outcomes across sites, manage on-site teams, and oversee installation, QA, burn-in, and handover to production.

Expect 50%+ travel and close collaboration with vendors and partners to deliver compute capacity. This role requires 8+ years in data center operations or hardware deployment, hands-on server/rack expertise, and proven vendor management.