Data Center Electrical Engineer

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

Training and serving frontier AI models requires compute infrastructure at a scale and density that pushes past what conventional data center designs were built to handle. Anthropic's Data Center team is responsible for delivering that physical infrastructure — partnering with build partners, equipment manufacturers, and utilities to stand up facilities that can reliably power some of the largest accelerator clusters in the industry.

As a Data Center Electrical Engineer, you'll own the electrical design of our facilities from the building service entrance through to the rack. You'll develop and maintain the reference designs and specifications our build partners work against, review their engineering submittals, and run the analysis needed to make confident decisions on topology, redundancy, and equipment selection. You'll ensure the electrical architecture keeps pace with rapidly increasing rack densities and the unique load characteristics of large-scale ML training.

This is a highly cross-functional role. You'll work closely with our hardware and compute teams to translate accelerator requirements into electrical design criteria, and with supply chain to qualify equipment vendors and create optionality in a constrained market. Strong candidates will bring deep mission-critical electrical design experience and the judgment to make sound trade-offs when the standard playbook doesn't apply.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Anthropic's electrical basis of design, reference architectures, and technical specifications for critical power distribution — covering switchgear, UPS systems, PDUs, busway, and rack power delivery
• Review and approve electrical design packages from build partners and MEP consultants, ensuring designs meet capacity, reliability, and maintainability requirements
• Perform and validate engineering studies including short-circuit, coordination, arc flash, load flow, and power quality analysis; use findings to steer design decisions and equipment selection
• Partner with external engineering and manufacturing teams to evaluate DC construction efficiency opportunities, develop productization roadmap and modular product strategy to enable accelerated DC acceleration and onsite labor reduction
• Evaluate and qualify electrical equipment vendors and product lines; work with supply chain to build a diversified vendor base that mitigates lead-time and single-source risk