Data Center Energy Lead, Australia

<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><h1 class="heading"><strong>Data Center Energy Lead — Australia</strong></h1> <h2 class="heading"><strong>About the role</strong></h2> <p>Anthropic's Infrastructure team is seeking a Data Center Energy Lead, based in Australia, to secure power capacity and accelerate energy delivery for our rapidly expanding AI compute footprint across the region. You'll work at the intersection of energy markets, physical power, project development and AI infrastructure needs, leading multi-hundred megawatt procurement efforts and building strategic relationships with ISOs, TNSPs, DNSPs, and regulators across multiple Australian jurisdictions. This role is essential to ensuring Anthropic can scale compute capacity efficiently while navigating the complex dynamics of the National Electricity Market (NEM), the Wholesale Electricity Market (WEM), Northern Territory Electricity Market (NTEM) and Australia's evolving energy regulatory environment to achieve the speed and scale required for frontier AI development.</p> <h2 class="heading"><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></h2> <ul> <li> <p>Develop creative and novel means of energy deployment - grid connected, behind-the-meter/fence, etc. that drives fastest timelines to energization, while maintaining social license</p> </li> <li> <p>Lead energy procurement and markets strategy to secure multi-hundred megawatt power capacity for AI infrastructure across the National Electricity Market (NEM), Wholesale Electricity Market (WEM) and Northern Territory Electricity Market (NTEM) structuring utility partnerships and commercial agreements that pri