Data Center Design Execution Lead

Job Description:

  • Drive execution of Anthropic’s technical requirements for third-party datacenter delivery partners, ensuring design intent is consistently translated from BOD through construction documents.
  • Define the design execution framework—deliverable requirements, review gates, and quality standards—for each partner engagement.
  • Drive accountability for partner deliverable quality across milestones, evaluating deliverables for cross-discipline consistency and alignment to Anthropic’s requirements.
  • Partner with external design teams and stakeholders to execute design document development and issuance across all project phases.
  • Own the design change management process across projects, ensuring technical decisions are documented, resolved, and implemented through construction.
  • Review and develop responses to contractor RFIs, maintaining design intent while accommodating field conditions.
  • Own technical continuity across design, construction, commissioning, and turnover, driving alignment between internal leads on phase transition standards and acceptance criteria.
  • Support project closeout and as-built documentation processes.
  • Facilitate constructability review processes between design and construction teams, surfacing integration risks raised by discipline leads for resolution, maintaining alignment between design intent and field execution as conditions evolve.
  • Drive risk identification and mitigation through partner QA/QC processes, across the design and construction lifecycle.
  • Direct and supervise external partners and owners reps conducting site reviews, ensuring technical reports adequately capture design compliance and construction progress.
  • Interface with internal stakeholders—construction execution, supply chain, facilities operations, and security—to align design solutions with technical and business objectives.
  • Partner with internal teams to define infrastructure requirements and translate them into actionable design criteria for external partners.
  • Identify and implement opportunities for process improvements, design optimization, and schedule/performance/cost tradeoffs.
  • Oversee partner-led commissioning review, ensuring outcomes are documented against Anthropic's standards.

Requirements:

  • 10+ years managing complex capital/infrastructure programs, including datacenters, spanning design and delivery phases.
  • Experience managing design execution or technical programs in partnership with external design/construction firms — design management, owner's engineering, or program management backgrounds all fit.
  • Working familiarity with mechanical, electrical, and cooling systems sufficient to manage technical discussions and hold discipline experts accountable
  • Experience managing design change processes, RFIs, and construction documentation workflows.
  • Track record of coordinating across multiple disciplines and organizations on complex infrastructure projects.
  • Familiarity with industry standards, building codes, and safety standards applicable to mission-critical facilities.
  • Comfortable operating with authority in ambiguous environments where processes need to be built, not just followed.
  • BS in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Architecture, or related field.
  • Preferred: Professional Engineer (PE) or Registered Architect (RA) license.
  • Proficiency with Revit/BIM, Autodesk, or similar design software applications.
  • Experience integrating sustainability, energy efficiency, and resiliency goals into datacenter system designs.
  • Direct experience with large-scale AI/HPC infrastructure, including high-density cooling systems and power distribution at 50+ MW scale.

Benefits:

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation and parental leave
  • Flexible working hours
  • Lovely office space for collaboration
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