The Compute & Infrastructure Counsel, Real Estate role at Anthropic focuses on legal execution for the company’s largest physical infrastructure transactions, including direct datacenter leases, construction agreements, and financing structures. The counsel will partner closely with outside counsel and internal teams to ensure legal work aligns with Anthropic’s commercial objectives and compute strategy, coordinate complex financing and construction contracts, and manage risk related to datacenter operations.
Compute & Infrastructure Counsel, Real Estate en Anthropic
Híbrido - San Francisco, CA, United States
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USD 265,000 - 335,000
Requirements
Skills
- JD and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar
- Fluency in commercial real estate and construction contracting; datacenter lease structures, construction risk allocation, and financing arrangements
- Experience with EPC, AIA, and design-build arrangements at scale
- Comfort with project finance structures and the interplay between lease, financing, and development agreements
- Ability to coordinate effectively with specialized outside counsel while maintaining strategic direction
- Strong judgment about when deal terms create downstream risk for operational flexibility
- Effective collaboration skills for working with business teams who handle transaction management and site selection
- Communication skills that translate complex real estate and financing concepts into clear risk assessments for business stakeholders
- Genuine interest in infrastructure development and appreciation for why datacenter capacity is mission-critical for frontier AI
- At least 8 years of relevant legal experience with meaningful exposure to infrastructure real estate transactions, project finance, or construction contracts
- In-house experience at datacenter developers supporting leasing, project development, and financing transactions
- Background at infrastructure private equity firms with exposure to datacenter or similar infrastructure investments
- Experience at large technology companies with datacenter construction programs supporting development transactions from the buy side
- Law firm experience at practices with infrastructure finance or project development specialization, particularly those who have worked on datacenter, power, or similar infrastructure financings
- Prior involvement in transactions requiring sophisticated understanding of construction timelines, commissioning requirements, and operational handoff
- Familiarity with tax structures, sale-leaseback arrangements, or other financing vehicles used in large-scale infrastructure development
Responsibilities
- Negotiate long-term datacenter leases with major developers, and represent some of Anthropic's largest and lengthiest capital commitments
- Coordinate construction-adjacent agreements including design-build contracts, equipment procurement, and commissioning schedules
- Manage legal workstreams for complex financing structures (e.g., sale-leasebacks, tax components, or project finance vehicles)
- Work closely with specialized outside counsel (real estate and financing specialists), ensuring their work product aligns with Anthropic's commercial objectives
- Collaborate with compute team's transaction managers who handle operational execution and project management, providing legal and risk management expertise
- Coordinate with finance and corporate development on strategic deal structuring
- Understand how datacenter legal structures interact with the compute capacity they will house e.g., power requirements, cooling specifications, security standards, and expansion rights all flow from decisions made elsewhere in the Compute organization
- Escalate novel structures or terms that create downstream risk for Anthropic's operational flexibility to managers; ensure facility designs accommodate AI-specific requirements including high-density power, liquid cooling infrastructure, and rapid scaling capacity
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