Infrastructure Tax Lead

About Anthropic

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.

About the Role

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.

Key Responsibilities

Serve as the embedded tax partner to Infrastructure team on deal intake: gather facts on site specs, counterparty structure, review and own commercial contracting for tax clauses; provide structure review and term-sheet input early enough to shape the deal

Work with regional tax teams to create and operationalize datacenter entity structures across jurisdictions: entity formation, operationalization with local teams, contemporaneous documentation, withholding on cross-border financing, permanent establishment risk

Partner with Incentives lead on state and local incentives, sales and use exemptions, property tax incentives, and site selection tax input; ensure incentive commitments and compliance obligations are reflected in the integrated tax position for each site

Coordinate with Infrastructure Accounting and tax accounting team on lease-versus-purchase treatment, consolidation questions, capitalization policy, and book-tax differences across a range of deal structures

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

Minimum qualifications

In-house tax experience at a hyperscaler, cloud provider, or large-scale datacenter operator

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

Preferred qualifications

12+ years of tax experience with significant exposure to datacenter, tax planning, including meaningful international range

Big 4 or law firm experience in a datacenter, or infrastructure tax practice

JD strongly preferred; LL.M. in Taxation or MST a plus