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Finance & Strategy, Compute

Anthropic· Finance
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$240k - $325kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Finance lead for accelerator compute spend, building financial models and partnering with compute teams to optimize AI compute investments and drive strategic decision-making.

Responsibilities

  • Finance lead for cloud accelerator compute spend, including budgeting, monthly forecasting, variance analysis, and financial plan maintenance
  • Build and maintain detailed bottoms-up data-driven financial models for accelerator infrastructure, including long-range forecasts, cost driver analyses, and investment scenario modeling
  • Develop deep expertise in compute contracts, pricing structures, and cost drivers, and surface optimization opportunities across our infrastructure
  • Serve as subject matter expert for Anthropic’s overall compute capacity plan, owning source of truth and plan of record
  • Support the implementation and management of financial planning tools (e.g., Pigment), ensuring our models and processes scale with the organization
  • Analyze the economics of model training and research compute, including ROI across different dimensions like training run sizes, chip types, data, etc, and distill into actionable framework for capacity planning and deployment
  • Partner closely with engineering and research teams to understand how training and reinforcement learning processes scale, and translate those technical dynamics into financial frameworks

Qualifications

  • Exceptional analytical skills with an ability to synthesize data into compelling insights and develop complex financial operating models
  • Extraordinary problem-solving and critical thinking abilities to develop new frameworks for profitability and capital efficiency in a rapidly evolving industry
  • Attention to detail and patience for getting to the source of truth on complex and interconnected underlying financial and legal frameworks
  • Comfort working cross-functionally and ability to communicate complex financial information to non-finance audiences
  • Proven track record of partnering with technical teams to drive financial optimization initiatives
  • Bias towards action, strong work ethic, and experience driving operational outcomes under tight timelines
  • Strong relationship building, business judgment, process management, and communication skills
  • Passion for Anthropic's mission and for integrating AI tools to streamline manual finance workflows
  • Background in AI, ML, or high-performance, large-scale computing infrastructure (data centers, cloud providers)

Skills

Required:Financial modelingCost accounting and forecastingData analysisCommunicationCollaboration with technical teams

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation and parental leave
  • Flexible working hours
  • Lovely office space
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Anthropic

building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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