Lead the strategic sourcing for critical electrical and mechanical infrastructure in Anthropic's Data Center operations.
Skills & Technologies
Requirements
- Experience
- 7–10 years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Visa
- Sponsorship available
Benefits
Joblaze summary
The Strategic Sourcing Lead at Anthropic is responsible for developing and executing procurement strategies for critical electrical and mechanical equipment essential to scaling the company's Data Center operations. This role requires expertise in supply chain management, particularly with data center infrastructure, and involves close collaboration with engineering and construction teams to ensure equipment availability and cost efficiency. Ideal candidates will have significant experience in sourcing and procurement, particularly within data center environments, and a strong background in managing vendor relationships. Anthropic's focus on building reliable AI systems underscores the impor
Joblaze insights
- Listed about a month ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Anthropic's career page.
- Anthropic has 411 other open roles including Staff + Senior Software Engineer, Inference Deployment, Applied AI Architect, Partnerships, Manager, Applied AI Engineering.
- 34 active Procurement roles on Joblaze right now.
- 23 active Supply Chain Management roles on Joblaze right now.
- 11 active Data Center roles on Joblaze right now.
- Salary band is above the typical range for comparable tech roles (median ~$114,000).
Quick facts
- Is the Data Center OFE Strategic Sourcing Lead (Mechanical) role remote?
- It's hybrid — Anthropic expects some on-site time in San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY.
- What's the salary range?
- Anthropic lists $365,000–$1,245,000 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- 7–10 years of relevant experience for this Data Center OFE Strategic Sourcing Lead (Mechanical) role.
- Where is the role based?
- Anthropic is hiring for this position in San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: mechanical equipment, Data Center, electrical equipment, Procurement, Supply Chain Management.
- Does Anthropic sponsor work visas for this role?
- Yes — the posting indicates visa sponsorship is available for the right candidate.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Anthropic targets lead candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Data Center OFE Strategic Sourcing Lead (Mechanical) role at Anthropic.
From the original posting
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.
About the role
We are hiring a Strategic Sourcing lead to drive development and execution of procurement strategies to help scale Anthropic's Data Center mechanical Owner Furnished Equipment (OFE) footprint. In this role, you will own end-to-end sourcing strategies for critical mechanical cooling infrastructure such as air-cooled and water-cooled chillers, CDUs, fan coil modules, rear door heat exchangers, and HAC units. You will partner closely with engineering, demand planning, construction, and third parties to drive equipment availability, establish vendor relationships, and negotiate commercial agreements. As a sourcing lead focused on key Data Center cooling and mechanical equipment, you will play a critical role in helping Anthropic to achieve its ambitious scaling goals.
Key responsibilities
- Drive commercial negotiations and Master Purchase Agreements for critical mechanical infrastructure such as air-cooled chillers, water-cooled chillers, cooling towers, CDUs, fan coil modules (FCMs), rear door heat exchangers (RDHX), HAC units, CRAHs/CRACs, dry coolers, and pumps.
- Audit partner procurement schedules, ensure optimal allocation, and drive cost efficiency of supply in constrained markets.
- Implement frameworks for ensuring third-party data center partners and general contractors adhere to commercial equipment terms and technical specifications.
- Develop global inventory strategy including warehousing, third-party logistics, buffer stock, and distribution models to accelerate time to market and improve availability.
- Proactively monitor global supply chain volatility (e.g., lead times for chillers, CDUs, and air handling equipment) and execute contingency plans to avoid critical project delays.
- Translate construction and capacity roadmaps into equipment forecasts and procurement pipelines.
- Partner with Finance to optimize inventory and capital deployment strategy.
- Establish efficient return, repair, and replacement workflows with OEMs to restore failed equipment quickly.
- Negotiate warranty, startup/commissioning support, and spare parts terms, and track vendor performance.
Minimum qualifications
- Have 7+ years experience in supply chain management, sourcing, and procurement.
- Have a track record of developing processes for forecasting, planning, and managing data center mechanical equipment for build-out and/or operations.
- Are familiar with data center mechanical and cooling equipment (e.g., air-cooled and water-cooled chillers, cooling towers, CRAHs/CRACs, fan coil modules, rear door heat exchangers, HACs, CDUs, dry coolers, pumps).
- Possess a bachelor's degree in a relevant domain (e.g., mechanical engineering, construction management, supply chain) or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred qualifications
- 10+ years experience in supply chain management, sourcing, and procurement.
- 5+ years experience in data center or critical environment infrastructure.
- Experience working with general contractors, MEP integrators, OEMs, and equipment distributors.
- Experience working on data center construction programs.
- Familiarity with liquid cooling equipment and architectures (CDUs, RDHX, manifolds, dry coolers, technology cooling systems).
- Leadership and influencing skills.
The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.
For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.
Logistics
Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
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.
We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. 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 think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.
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How we're different
We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. 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. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.
The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.
Come work with us!
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. 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. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.