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.
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, 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
- 12+ years of tax experience with significant exposure to datacenter, REIT, or large-scale real estate tax planning, including meaningful international range
- JD or CPA required; LL.M. in Taxation or MST a plus
- Deep technical command of lease characterization and Section 467, bonus depreciation modeling on capital-intensive buildouts.
- Experience standing up and maintaining entity structures across multiple jurisdictions, including contemporaneous documentation and operationalizing with local finance, legal, and accounting teams
- Working fluency in cross-border withholding on intercompany and third-party financing, permanent establishment analysis, and debt-versus-equity characterization
- Track record of owning the integrated tax position across a portfolio of deals — not advising on one issue at a time, but carrying the thread across functions from term sheet to post-close
- Demonstrated ability to operate as a cross-functional coordinator: comfortable running point across Legal, Accounting, FP&A, and business teams without formal authority over any of them
- Exceptional written and verbal communication — able to translate complex tax positions into clear guidance for Infrastructure leadership and deal teams
- Comfort with ambiguity and a track record of building processes from scratch in a fast-moving environment
- Big 4 or law firm experience in a datacenter, REIT, or infrastructure tax practice
- In-house tax experience at a hyperscaler, cloud provider, or large-scale datacenter operator
- 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, REIT tax counsel, or Big 4 infrastructure tax teams
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.
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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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.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Public Policy, Economics, Real Estate, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 8-12+ years progressive experience in economic development incentives, government incentives advisory, site selection, or tax credits and incentives
- Direct experience negotiating and securing incentives for corporate infrastructure investments (ideally including technology/compute infrastructure)
- Deep knowledge of US incentives landscape and tax policy across federal, state, and local programs
- Demonstrated experience preparing and presenting to government officials and economic development authorities
- Strong analytical capabilities including financial modeling, cost-benefit analysis, and incentive valuation
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- MBA, JD, CPA, or other advanced degree or professional certification
- Experience in infrastructure site selection, development, or operations
- Prior experience at a Big 4 accounting firm (Credits & Incentives / SALT), economic development consultancy, or corporate economic development/site selection team
- Familiarity with energy and utility procurement, power infrastructure, and utility incentive programs for large-scale infrastructure
- Experience with Qualified Opportunity Zones, New Markets Tax Credits, Inflation Reduction Act credits, CHIPS Act incentives, or other relevant federal programs
- Existing relationships with economic development officials and government stakeholders in key US markets
- Experience managing external advisors (legal counsel, tax consultants, real estate advisors)
Anthropic Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Anthropic and has not been reviewed or approved by Anthropic.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Pay is positioned as top-of-market for many technical roles through a mix of high base pay, equity, and occasional bonuses/signing incentives. Benefits like substantial monthly stipends and employer-paid protections further strengthen perceived total rewards.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare is described as comprehensive across medical, dental, and vision, with additional mental-health support. Coverage is framed as robust for employees and dependents, which can materially increase the value of the overall package.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is described as notably generous, alongside fertility coverage and other family-oriented supports. These elements broaden the rewards package beyond cash compensation and can improve retention for caregivers.
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Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that’s working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our research interests span multiple areas including natural language, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability.
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