Commercial or Construction Counsel

Commercial Counsel, Datacenters & Construction
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 Datacenters & Construction at Anthropic, you'll lead legal execution for Anthropic's largest physical infrastructure transactions: direct datacenter leases, construction agreements, and the financing structures that enable infrastructure investments at massive scale. This role focuses on facilities where Anthropic has direct control through ownership or longterm lease, complementing the colo & networks, and cloud compute legal teammates (facilities where Anthropic is tenant, and our hyperscaler relationships, respectively). You'll work in close partnership with specialized outside counsel on financing and real estate matters, serving as the inhouse coordinator who ensures external work product aligns with Anthropic's commercial objectives and integrates with our overall compute strategy.
Support and structure power purchase agreements, negotiate utility interconnection agreements, and manage utilityrelated legal requirements or initiatives e.g., Coordinate constructionadjacent agreements including designbuild contracts, equipment procurement, and commissioning schedules
Manage legal workstreams for complex financing structures (e.g., saleleasebacks, tax components, or project finance vehicles)
Work closely with specialized outside counsel (real estate and financing specialists), ensuring their work product aligns with Anthropic's commercial objectives
Collaborate with compute teams transaction managers who handle operational execution and project management, providing legal and risk management expertise
Coordinate with finance and corporate development on strategic deal structuring
Understand how datacenter legal structures interact with the compute capacity they will house e.g., Escalate novel structures or terms that create downstream risk for Anthropics operational flexibility to managers; ensure facility designs accommodate AIspecific requirements including highdensity power, liquid cooling infrastructure, and rapid scaling capacity
At least 8 years of relevant legal experience with meaningful exposure to project finance, construction contracts, or infrastructure real estate transactions
Fluency in commercial real estate and construction contracting; datacenter lease structures, construction risk allocation, and financing arrangements (and how they will interact)
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 who handle transaction management and site selection
Communication skills that translate complex real estate and financing concepts into clear risk assessments for business stakeholders
Inhouse 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 (Meta, Google, Microsoft) 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, saleleaseback arrangements, or other financing vehicles used in largescale infrastructure development
Rolespecific policy
For this role, we expect staff to be able to work from our San Francisco or New York office at least 3 days a week, though we encourage you to apply even if you might need some flexibility for an interim period of time.
We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
Locationbased hybrid policy: Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. GPT3, CircuitBased Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.
We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.
Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.
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