Data Center Facility Operations Lead Commissioning and Delivery

AI safety and research company building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems, including the Claude product family and developer platform.

Series F+Recently funded0 current maintainers0 active leads
San Francisco, United States
About Anthropic

Anthropic PBC develops frontier AI systems and deploys them through Claude products and the Claude Platform, with a stated focus on safety, interpretability, and steerability.

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About the Role

You will lead commissioning, turn-up, and operational handover for new data-center capacity. You will define commissioning strategies, plans, acceptance criteria, schedules, testing standards, and reporting. You will oversee third-party delivery, manage partners, resolve deficiencies, and improve capacity delivery, equipment availability, logistics, and operating processes.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of data-center commissioning, construction delivery, or facility-operations experience
  • Track record of commissioning and delivering mission-critical capacity on schedule
  • Expertise in L1–L5 commissioning, systems testing, and operational handover
  • Third-party partner relationship-management experience
  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant domain or equivalent practical experience

Responsibilities

  • Define commissioning and delivery strategy for new capacity
  • Create commissioning plans, acceptance criteria, schedule milestones, and reporting methods
  • Oversee third-party L1–L5 commissioning, turn-up, and handover to operations
  • Set standards for commissioning agents, contractors, and operators
  • Create functional and integrated systems-testing standards
  • Track and resolve deficiencies, excursions, and incidents
  • Improve time to capacity, equipment availability, cost, and complexity
  • Optimize bills of materials, logistics, and physical processes
  • Manage partner relationships and maintain alignment

Benefits

  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation
  • Parental leave
  • Flexible working hours