The opportunity
As a Capacity Deployment Lead within Anthropic's Data Center Operations (DCO) organization, you will support and scale how we bring new compute capacity online across a growing fleet of partner-operated data centers. Deployment runs from construction kickoff to ready for service (RFS).
What you'll do
Own deployment outcomes for your assigned sites and data-hall waves: CUs and hall ready-for-service dates met, with exceptions closed out, or risk called early enough for leadership to act.
Engage from construction kickoff and confirm deployment readiness ahead of: each wave - floor access, power, network, receiving paths, and partner staffing - working the gaps with the site operations partner and facilities counterparts before racks arrive.
Be on site at key points before and during delivery, deployment, QA, and: close-out; verify the work with your own eyes rather than from a dashboard, and support the on-site teams with your direct expertise.
Work with partner's site leadership to ensure success through rack delivery: and receiving, integration QA, power-on and network turn-up, and burn-in and validation, setting daily priorities and quality gates and confirming results against Anthropic-owned ticket and telemetry data.
Validate the handover gate for each CU and data hall: acceptance criteria met, burn-in complete, documentation delivered, spares positioned, ticketing live, and a structured handover into production operations and the maintenance program.
Turn best practices, optimization, and lessons learned from each deployment: into program-wide improvements: procedures, checklists, acceptance standards, and metrics, so the next wave runs faster and cleaner than the last.
What they're looking for
- Extend the deployment program to new sites and platforms, adapting standards: and acceptance criteria as the hardware changes.
- Communicate deployment status, dependencies, constraints, and risk to: engineering, capacity planning, the team that owns the overall site schedule, and leadership.
- Have 8+ years of experience in data center operations or hardware deployment: as a manager, technical lead or related role, including accountability for delivery milestones.
- Can demonstrate a proven track record leading compute or network hardware: deployments at a large scale across multiple sites or data-hall waves, from early floor access through ready for service.
