Datacenter & Infrastructure Counsel

InforCapital; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); On-site; USD 265,000 - 335,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic seeks an in-house Compute & Infrastructure Counsel to lead the legal execution of large-scale datacenter leases, construction contracts, and financing structures. You will coordinate with outside counsel and Anthropic's compute and finance teams to align legal terms with strategic infrastructure goals.

Ideal candidates have a JD with US bar admission, deep expertise in real estate and construction contracts for infrastructure, and experience in project finance and complex leasing

Qualifications

• JD and active bar admission in at least one US state
• Fluency in commercial real estate and construction contracting; datacenter lease structures, construction risk allocation, and financing arrangements
• 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
• Excellent collaboration and communication with business teams handling transaction management and site selection
• Interest in infrastructure development and the importance of datacenter capacity for frontier AI

Responsibilities

• Negotiate long-term datacenter leases with major developers
• Coordinate design-build and construction-adjacent agreements
• Manage financing-structure workstreams (sale-leasebacks, tax components, project finance)
• Coordinate with outside counsel to align work product with commercial objectives
• Collaborate with transaction managers for operational execution and risk management
• Coordinate with finance and corporate development on deal structuring
• Understand how datacenter legal structures interact with compute capacity and power/cooling needs
• Escalate novel structures that create downstream risk and ensure scalable irreversible handoffs

Skills

Commercial real estate

Construction contracting

Datacenter leases

Project finance

Financing structures

Risk assessment

Collaboration

Communication

Strategic judgment

Education

JD and US bar admission

Job description

Anthropic seeks an in-house Compute & Infrastructure Counsel to lead the legal execution of large-scale datacenter leases, construction contracts, and financing structures. You will coordinate with outside counsel and Anthropic's compute and finance teams to align legal terms with strategic infrastructure goals.

Ideal candidates have a JD with US bar admission, deep expertise in real estate and construction contracts for infrastructure, and experience in project finance and complex leasing