Commercial Counsel, Compute & Infrastructure

Commercial Counsel, Compute & Infrastructure

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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.

As a Commercial Counsel for Compute & Infrastructure at Anthropic, you’ll lead legal strategy for the technical foundation that enables frontier AI research and deployment. You’ll serve as a senior legal partner to Anthropic’s compute and compute finance teams, negotiating and managing Anthropic’s most financially significant and strategically sensitive relationships. You will support our hyperscaler and neocloud relationships, as well as Anthropic’s growing datacenter footprint and related infrastructure;

essential components to Anthropic’s place on the frontier of AI model development.

• Own end-to-end legal strategy and execution for Anthropic’s compute and infrastructure portfolio, including hyperscaler relationships (AWS, GCP, Azure), accelerator procurement (GPU, TPU, Trainium), neocloud capacity arrangements, datacenter capacity, and datacenter/real estate transactions
• Strategic advisor on the most complex compute-related transactions and partnerships occurring at the company
• Negotiate and manage Anthropic's largest financial commitments, including multi-billion-dollar infrastructure deals with complex technical, commercial, and strategic implications
• Direct and manage outside counsel and internal deal teams
• Support our compute deal frameworks and playbooks for recurring transaction types that enable velocity while maintaining appropriate risk controls
• Collaborate cross-functionally with compute business teams, finance, corporate development, product, and research to structure deals that optimize for both cost and strategic positioning
• Coordinate with other strategic commercial transactions work streams (e.g., partnerships, and strategic pursuits) to manage interdependencies, cross-team obligations, and opportunities; monitor and advise on tariff and export control regulations, supply allocation dynamics, and emerging regulatory frameworks

• JD and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar
• At least 10-12 years of relevant legal experience, with substantial focus on complex infrastructure, technology procurement, or large-scale commercial transactions; you thrive when supporting bespoke “one of” deals ($ hundreds of millions or billions)
• Demonstrated a track record of leading sophisticated, high-stakes negotiations involving technical complexity, novel commercial structures, and strategic sensitivity
• Cross-function deal team management experience, including developing, and retaining legal talent
• Exceptional ability to understand and negotiate technical terms related to compute infrastructure, hardware specifications, data center operations, and cloud services; you should be comfortable discussing accelerator chips, compute clusters, power requirements, and network topology with technical stakeholders
• Superior judgment in risk assessment for transactions where Anthropic's strategic positioning and sustained position on the AI frontier depend on favorable outcomes
• Outstanding ability to manage and direct external counsel on specialized matters, ensuring external teams deliver excellent work product while integrating seamlessly
• Strong business understanding of compute infrastructure dynamics, including economics / expenditure models, revenue sharing arrangements, compute cost optimization, and AI accelerator market dynamics (supply constraints / customer allocations, emerging financing structures / backstops)
• Exceptional communication skills with ability to translate complex technical and financial concepts into strategic business considerations for executives and board members
• Genuine intellectual curiosity about AI infrastructure and commitment to supporting Anthropic's mission to build reliable,…