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Salary: USD 265,000 - 335,000 / annual
Anthropic is seeking a Compute & Infrastructure Counsel specializing in Real Estate to drive legal execution for the company's largest physical infrastructure transactions. This role focuses on direct datacenter leases, construction agreements, and financing structures that enable infrastructure investments at massive scale—specifically facilities where Anthropic has direct control through ownership or long-term lease.
You will serve as the in-house legal coordinator working in close partnership with specialized outside counsel on financing and real estate matters, ensuring external work product aligns with Anthropic's commercial objectives and integrates with overall compute strategy.
Key responsibilities include:
- Negotiating long-term datacenter leases with major developers, representing some of Anthropic's largest and lengthiest capital commitments
- Coordinating construction-adjacent agreements including design-build contracts, equipment procurement, and commissioning schedules
- Managing legal workstreams for complex financing structures (e.g., sale-leasebacks, tax components, project finance vehicles)
- Working closely with specialized outside counsel to ensure alignment with commercial objectives
- Collaborating with compute team's transaction managers on operational execution and project management
- Coordinating with finance and corporate development on strategic deal structuring
- Understanding how datacenter legal structures interact with compute capacity requirements (power, cooling, security, expansion rights)
- Escalating novel structures or terms that create downstream operational risk; ensuring facility designs accommodate AI-specific requirements including high-density power, liquid cooling infrastructure, and rapid scaling capacity
Anthropics's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The company is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.
The role requires at least 3 days per week in either the San Francisco or Seattle office, though the company encourages applications even if interim flexibility is needed.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Minimum:
- JD and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar
- Fluency in commercial real estate and construction contracting; datacenter lease structures, construction risk allocation, and financing arrangements and how they interact
- 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
- Effective collaboration skills for working with business teams handling transaction management and site selection
- Communication skills that translate complex real estate and financing concepts into clear risk assessments for business stakeholders
- Genuine interest in infrastructure development and appreciation for why datacenter capacity is mission-critical for frontier AI
Preferred:
- At least 8 years of relevant legal experience with meaningful exposure to infrastructure real estate transactions, project finance, or construction contracts
- In-house experience at datacenter developers supporting leasing, project development, and financing transactions
- Background at infrastructure private equity firms with exposure to datacenter or similar infrastructure investments
- Experience at large technology companies with datacenter construction programs supporting development transactions from the buy side
- Law firm experience at practices with infrastructure finance or project development specialization, particularly those who have worked on datacenter, power, or similar infrastructure financings
- Prior involvement in transactions requiring sophisticated understanding of construction timelines, commissioning requirements, and operational handoff
- Familiarity with tax structures, sale-leaseback arrangements, or other financing vehicles used in large-scale infrastructure development
