Data Center Reliability Architect: Power & Infra Engineer

EngineersOfAI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic in San Francisco is seeking an engineer at the intersection of IT and facilities to design and operate power and cooling topologies for our data-center fleet. You’ll define load management strategies, validate telemetry, and influence site selection, SLAs, and capacity planning.

You will build reliability and power models, forecast loads, and collaborate with hardware, software, and vendor teams to improve design and performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Power Systems, Reliability Engineering, Controls Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in data center infrastructure, facility engineering, or reliability engineering.
• Demonstrated experience with data center power distribution and cooling system architectures, and infrastructure failure mode management.
• Demonstrated experience in at least one of the following: Building quantitative reliability or availability models, Building power/capacity models and forecasts, Building software-based power management, load shedding, or control systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the power and cooling topology of our fleet as a living dataset, validate it and its telemetry against building behavior, and define load management under failure across chips and capacity providers.
• Build and audit availability models of data center electrical and mechanical systems, define Cloud availability zones and failure domains from a single site to the whole fleet.
• Build models of power draw from chip to rack to facility, by workload and hardware generation, and use them to set capacity planning targets, design envelope, and load forecasting.
• Work with data center developers, operators, cloud providers and chip vendors to drive design improvements and hold them to SLA-grade performance.

Skills

Data center power distribution

Cooling architectures

Reliability engineering

Load management & controls

Telemetry pipelines

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering or related field

5+ years of experience in data center infrastructure or reliability engineering

Tools

SCADA/BMS/EPMS

Telemetry systems

IT/OT interfaces

Job description

Anthropic in San Francisco is seeking an engineer at the intersection of IT and facilities to design and operate power and cooling topologies for our data-center fleet. You’ll define load management strategies, validate telemetry, and influence site selection, SLAs, and capacity planning.

You will build reliability and power models, forecast loads, and collaborate with hardware, software, and vendor teams to improve design and performance.