Head of Compute Supply Chain

<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>Head of Compute Supply Chain</strong></h2><p>[San Francisco / remote-friendly US]</p><h3><strong>About the role</strong></h3><p>Anthropic's compute depends on supply chains that can't keep up with demand. Foundry capacity, memory, processors and networking are allocated to the customers suppliers consider strategic, and so are the transformers, chillers and turbines that power and cool our data centers. We are hiring a Head of Compute Supply Chain to own how Anthropic secures that supply.</p><p>You will oversee sourcing across semiconductors and IT hardware, data center equipment, and energy equipment. You will hold our executive supplier relationships, and identify gaps before they bite us. A very small team brought this function from zero to hyperscale in a matter of months. Your job is to grow it into a high-performing, talent-dense organization while solving supply challenges the industry has never seen before.</p><h3><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h3><ul><li><p>Own sourcing strategy across semiconductors and hardware, data center equipment, and energy equipment.</p></li><li><p>Build the organization: develop the category leads and set how the teams operate as they grow.</p></li><li><p>Secure supply ahead of demand through capacity reservations, wafer commitments and long-term agreements, working with the rest of the Compute team as well as domain experts in Finance and Legal.</p></li><li><p>Hold executive relationships with hardware suppliers and power and infrastructure OEMs.</p></li><li><p>Own supply risk, including single-source exposure, geograph