Head of Compute Supply Chain

EngineersOfAI; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Head of Compute Supply Chain to own sourcing across semiconductors, IT hardware, data center equipment, and energy infrastructure, reporting to executive leadership. The role involves building a high-performing function, growing a small team into a scalable organization, and partnering with Finance and Legal to secure supply ahead of demand.

You will manage executive supplier relationships, negotiate long-term capacity commitments, and own risk management, including

Qualifications

• 15+ years in strategic sourcing or supply chain for semiconductors, hardware, or datacenter infrastructure, and have led a function rather than a single category.
• Built a sourcing organization through rapid growth, including managers who lead teams.
• Negotiated capacity or long-term supply agreements at multibillion-dollar scale with executive counterparts.
• Deep experience in either semiconductor supply (foundry, memory or hardware) or data center and power infrastructure equipment, and the judgment to lead the other.
• Can make hard allocation calls and explain the trade-offs to executives.
• Have strong written communication and executive presence.

Responsibilities

• Own sourcing strategy across semiconductors and hardware, data center equipment, and energy equipment.
• Build the organization: develop the category leads and set how the teams operate as they grow.
• Secure supply ahead of demand through capacity reservations, wafer commitments and long-term agreements, working with the rest of the Compute team as well as domain experts in Finance and Legal.
• Hold executive relationships with hardware suppliers and power and infrastructure OEMs.
• Own supply risk, including single-source exposure, geography, tariffs and export controls.
• Identify supply gaps before they impact the business.

Skills

Strategic sourcing leadership

Executive communication

Supply chain leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

About Anthropic

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.

Head of Compute Supply Chain

[San Francisco / remote-friendly US]

About the role

Anthropic's compute depends on supply chains that can't keep up with demand. Foundry capacity, memory, processors and networking are allocated to the customers suppliers consider strategic, and so are the transformers, chillers and turbines that power and cool our data centers. We are hiring a Head of Compute Supply Chain to own how Anthropic secures that supply.

You will oversee sourcing across semiconductors and IT hardware, data center equipment, and energy equipment. You will hold our executive supplier relationships, and identify gaps before they bite us. A very small team brought this function from zero to hyperscale in a matter of months. Your job is to grow it into a high-performing, talent-dense organization while solving supply challenges the industry has never seen before.

Responsibilities

• Own sourcing strategy across semiconductors and hardware, data center equipment, and energy equipment.

• Build the organization: develop the category leads and set how the teams operate as they grow.

• Secure supply ahead of demand through capacity reservations, wafer commitments and long-term agreements, working with the rest of the Compute team as well as domain experts in Finance and Legal.

• Hold executive relationships with hardware suppliers and power and infrastructure OEMs.

• Own supply risk, including single-source exposure, geography, tariffs and export controls.

• Identify supply gaps before they impact the business.

You may be a good fit if you

• Have 15+ years in strategic sourcing or supply chain for semiconductors, hardware, or datacenter infrastructure, and have led a function rather than a single category.

• Have built a sourcing organization through rapid growth, including managers who lead teams.

• Have negotiated capacity or long-term supply agreements at multibillion-dollar scale with executive counterparts.

• Have deep experience in either semiconductor supply (foundry, memory or hardware) or data center and power infrastructure equipment, and the judgment to lead the other.

• Can make hard allocation calls and explain the trade-offs to executives.

• Have strong written communication and executive presence.

Strong candidates may also have

• Built a sourcing function from scratch.

• Sourced for other kinds of hardware, such as robotics or manufacturing equipment.

• Sourced across the US, Europe and Asia, including for an international data center portfolio.

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary: $1 — $2 USD

Logistics

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 cour