The opportunity
Anthropic is making significant, sustained investment in compute infrastructure to support our AI safety mission. We are looking for an Infrastructure Tax Lead to own tax end-to-end across that portfolio — sitting at the point of deal flow, embedded with the Infrastructure team,…
What you'll do
Serve as the embedded tax partner to Infrastructure team on deal intake: gather facts on site specs, counterparty structure, review and own commercial contracting for tax clauses; provide structure review and term-sheet input early enough to shape the deal
Work with regional tax teams to create and operationalize datacenter entity: structures across jurisdictions: entity formation, operationalization with local teams, contemporaneous documentation, withholding on cross-border financing, permanent establishment risk
Partner with Incentives lead on state and local incentives, sales and use: exemptions, property tax incentives, and site selection tax input; ensure incentive commitments and compliance obligations are reflected in the integrated tax position for each site
Coordinate with Infrastructure Accounting and tax accounting team on: lease-versus-purchase treatment, consolidation questions, capitalization policy, and book-tax differences across a range of deal structures
Partner with transfer pricing on policy for the infrastructure footprint: intercompany compute pricing, benchmarking, and documentation that will withstand scrutiny as intercompany flows scale
Partner with the tax provision team on quarterly impact of new structures and: deferred tax positions; ensure there are no surprises between deal close and quarter close
What they're looking for
- + years of tax experience with significant exposure to datacenter, tax: planning, including meaningful international range
- Big 4 or law firm experience in a datacenter, or infrastructure tax practice
- JD strongly preferred; LL.M. in Taxation or MST a plus
- Hands-on transfer pricing experience for intercompany services or compute,: including benchmarking and documentation
- Experience with the owner-operator transition: construction-period capitalization, placed-in-service timing disputes, property tax during buildout, and sales/use on construction inputs versus operating equipment
- Background in state and local incentives, economic development negotiation,: or site selection tax — either as a dedicated practitioner or as a frequent collaborator
- Experience with non-US datacenter tax regimes and cross-border infrastructure structures
- Existing relationships with datacenter developers, tax counsel, or Big 4 infrastructure tax teams
