Commercial Counsel, Networking & Datacenter Operations

<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>About Anthropic</strong></h2> <p>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.</p></div><h2><strong>About the role</strong></h2> <p style="text-align: justify;">As Commercial Counsel, Networking &amp; Datacenter Operations for Compute and Infrastructure at Anthropic, you’ll lead legal execution for the connective tissue and the steady-state running of Anthropic’s Infrastructure. This role spans dark fiber and IRU agreements, IP transit and peering, subsea-cable capacity, network-equipment procurement, and the Operations &amp; Maintenance (O&amp;M), facilities-management, commissioning, decommissioning, and resilience contracting that keeps production sites online once the keys are handed over.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">You’ll work in close partnership with Anthropic teammates in Datacenter Legal, Strategic Technology &amp; Procurement, Infrastructure Security, Treasury/Risk and Public Policy, in addition to specialized outside counsel. You will serve as the primary legal owner ensuring external work product aligns with Anthropic’s commercial objectives and integrates with our overall compute and availability strategy.</p> <h2 style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></h2> <ul> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;">Negotiate dark fiber and IRU agreements (long-haul and metro), wavelength and lit-capacity services, IP transit and peering (settlement-free and paid), internet-exchange participation, subsea-cable capacity and landing-party agreements, carrier-hotel and meet-me-room agreements, and cross-connect MSAs</p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;">Support the telecom regulatory interface, including FCC Section 214 au