Compute Country Lead, Japan

Anthropics 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.

Anthropic is scaling compute internationally growing our footprint in new countries. Were hiring a Country Lead to be the single accountable owner of our compute strategy in Japan: the person who leads a team of cross-functional experts driving site selection leasing energy financing government relations and policy community engagement construction and operations. This person will be ultimately responsible for bringing gigawatts of compute online in Japan.

You wont build this alone. The specialist functions leasing energy policy construction finance are hired and managed centrally by functional leads based in San Francisco. Your job is to provide cross-functional leadership over that team in-country: coordinating and driving accountability across workstreams while representing Anthropic externally with government and industry counterparts in Japan.

This is a high-ambiguity high-trust role for someone who can bring structure to a fast-growing cross-functional effort without needing formal authority to do it.

• Own the end-to-end strategy and coordination for Anthropics compute build-out in Japan from initial site selection through construction and operations. While each component will be run by subject matter experts this role will act as the overall leader and coordinator of that team.

• Serve as the primary point of accountability for cross-functional workstreams; leasing financing energy government relations/policy community engagement construction and operations.

• Provide working leadership to the in-country cross-functional team driving alignment and unblocking issues.

• Represent Anthropic with government officials utilities energy providers and other external stakeholders in Japan.

• Build and maintain relationships within the Japanese government and the energy industry to support site power and policy outcomes.

• Track progress and surface risks across parallel workstreams as the countrys compute footprint scales from initial sites to multiple gigawatts.

• Translate between Anthropics global compute priorities and the specific regulatory political and market conditions in Japan.

• Japanese national with established links into government and the energy industry strongly preferred.

• Structured thinker with a track record of learning new domains quickly and going deep fast.

• Excellent communicator comfortable representing Anthropic to senior government utility and industry stakeholders.

• Demonstrated ability to lead and coordinate cross-functional teams without direct line authority.

• Hyper-organized and detail-oriented with the ability to own multiple concurrent workstreams at once.

• Comfortable with ambiguity; a problem solver who drives structure into undefined situations.

• Background in energy infrastructure or a related sector.

• Prior experience with large-scale infrastructure or datacenter development.

• Existing relationships with Japanese federal or provincial government bodies relevant to energy land use or industrial development.

• Experience managing or overseeing capital-intensive projects.

• Familiarity with the compute cloud or datacenter industry.

Minimum education: Bachelors degree or an equivalent combination of education training and/or experience

Required field of study:A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework training or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship:We do sponsor visas! However we arent able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if youre interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones were building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

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We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact advancing our long-term goals of steerable trustworthy AI rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. Were an extremely collaborative group and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic including: GPT-3 Circuit-Based Interpretability Multimodal Neurons Scaling Laws AI & Compute Concrete Problems in AI Safety and Learning from Human Preferences.

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