Infrastructure Tax Lead

About Anthropic

Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The company wants AI to be safe and beneficial for users and society. The team is a growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the Role

Anthropic is making significant, sustained investment in compute infrastructure to support its AI safety mission. The Infrastructure Tax Lead will own tax end-to-end across the infrastructure portfolio, sitting at the point of deal flow, embedded with the Infrastructure team, and coordinating across Legal, Technical Accounting, FP&A, International Tax, Transfer Pricing, Provision, and Incentives.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the embedded tax partner to Infrastructure team on deal intake: gather facts on site specs, counterparty structure, commercial terms, and timing; provide structure review and term-sheet input early enough to shape the deal
• Lead Incentives workstream on state and local incentives, sales and use exemptions, and site selection tax input; ensure incentive commitments and compliance obligations are reflected in the integrated tax position for each site
• Partner with Tax Transactions and Tax Planning teams on lease characterization, entity structure, and contract tax provisions; own the tax read on lease-versus-purchase, and treatment across a portfolio of non-standard structures
• Lead after-tax deal economics: bonus depreciation modeling on large-scale buildouts, NOL utilization, and scenario analysis; partner with Tax Planning and FP&A to ensure tax assumptions are reflected accurately in deal approval packages
• Coordinate with Technical Accounting on lease-versus-purchase treatment, consolidation questions, capitalization policy, and book-tax differences across a range of deal structures
• Stand up and maintain datacenter entity structures across jurisdictions: entity formation, operationalization with local teams, contemporaneous documentation, withholding on cross-border financing, permanent establishment risk, and debt-versus-equity characterization
• 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
• Build and maintain infrastructure tax playbooks, issue-spotting checklists, and internal processes so the function scales with deal volume rather than linearly with headcount

Experience Requirements

12+ years of relevant experience required.