Description
About the role
As the Facility Operations Lead for Commissioning & Delivery within the Data Center Infrastructure organisation, you will lead the commissioning, turn-up, and delivery of new capacity across Anthropic's growing fleet of data centre infrastructure.
You will be accountable for bringing critical mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and control systems from construction through L1–L5 commissioning and handover to operations.
As a subject matter expert in data centre commissioning and operations, you will develop scalable processes for bringing new capacity online, help manage data centre partners & vendors, lead delivery schedules, and maintain close coordination with related disciplines such as design, engineering, construction, and capacity planning.
Responsibilities:
- Define the commissioning and delivery strategy for new capacity, including commissioning plans, acceptance criteria, schedule milestones, and reporting methods.
- Oversee third-party L1–L5 commissioning, turn-up, and handover to operations of facility infrastructure such as switch gear, technology cooling systems, and computer room air handlers.
- Define expectations and standards to enable third-party commissioning agents, contractors, and operators to succeed in each of the critical facility domains.
- Create standards for functional and integrated systems testing, minimising risk, and effectively tracking and resolving deficiencies, excursions, and incidents during turn-up.
- Develop innovative approaches to accelerate time to capacity and improve equipment availability while minimising cost and complexity.
- Enable scale-out of capacity delivery through industry best practices and optimisation of bill of materials, logistics, and physical processes.
- Manage partner relationships and maintain alignment with Anthropic goals.
Requirements:
- Have 10+ years of experience in data centre commissioning, construction delivery, or facility operations as a manager, engineer, technical lead or related role.
- Can demonstrate a proven track record commissioning and delivering mission critical capacity on schedule.
- Are a subject matter expert in L1–L5 commissioning, including commissioning plans, functional and integrated systems testing, and handover to operations.
- Are experienced in third-party partner relationship management, including commissioning agents, general contractors, and equipment vendors.
- Bachelor's degree in relevant domain or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to have:
- 15+ years of experience commissioning or delivering large scale data centres.
- 5+ Critical Facilities Operations and Maintenance Leadership experience
- An understanding of AI/ML workloads, including power, cooling, and network connectivity
- Experience supporting technology cooling solutions such as rear door heat exchangers and/or cooling distribution units
- Experience managing third-party datacenters such as colo operators and/or contract staffing vendors.
- Experience turning up liquid-cooled HPC capacity, including developing commissioning plans, creating acceptance criteria, and conducting hand-over reviews
The annual compensation range for this role is $320,000-$405,000 USD.
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.