Head of Logistics

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.

Infrastructure Expansion holds the majority of Anthropics deployed capital assets and moves them through a global network of warehouses integrators and field sites. The freight ranges from a tray of optics to a generator on a lowboy; one lost shipment cascades into a slipped site.

Youll build and lead this function. The job has four centers of gravity: process and SOP engineering so a thousand contractors execute the same way at every site; warehousing and inventory management including being the business owner for the assetlifecycle platform our software team is building; shipping and logistics ops for highvalue equipment with real chainofcustody and security; and heavy/oversized material movement generators switchgear integrated racks from factory to pad. Youre building the team and the playbook and youre measured on whether the right thing shows up at the right dock on time intact every time.

• Own process and SOP engineering. Author the procedures that govern receiving inspection kitting integration shipout install and RMA and the QA/audit loop that proves theyre being followed. Turn field incidents into process changes not memos.

• Run warehousing and inventory. Stand up the warehouse network (3PL vs. inhouse) the sparing model that keeps every PoP inside its replacement SLA and cyclecount/reconciliation discipline that keeps book and floor in agreement.

• Be the business owner for the assetlifecycle platform. Partner with the Core Services software team building our inventory/ALM system define the data model state machine and EDI/WMS integrations it needs; you decide what correct inventory means they make the system enforce it.

• Own highvalue shipping operations. Carrier selection and management lane risk assessment GPS/tamper traceability named handoff owners insurance and claims so when something goes missing we know where when and who before it costs us a site date.

• Own heavy and oversized logistics. Generators switchgear fullyintegrated racks: route surveys permits rigging and crane coordination shock/vibe acceptance criteria and the sitereceiving plan on the other end.

• Run trade compliance and reverse logistics. ECCN/ITAR classification and licensing across jurisdictions; RMA repair/refurb decommission and disposition.

• Build the team. Hire and lead warehouse ops logistics coordinators process/QA engineers and trade compliance. This is a buildthefunction role.

• Have run global hardware logistics at hyperscaler large OEM/ODM telecom or energyinfra scale multisite warehouse network 3PL management highvalue and oversized freight.

• Have personally written the SOPs and the QA system for a hardware operation and have the scar tissue from the time the SOP existed but nobody followed it.

• Have been the businessside owner of a WMS / inventory / assetlifecycle system defined requirements drove the integration owned data quality.

• Have moved heavy equipment (generators transformers skids prefab modules) including permits rigging and site receiving not just parcel and LTL.

• Have stood up a function from nearzero: picked the systems wrote the processes hired the team owned the number.

• Are fluent in trade compliance for dualuse electronics across NA/EU/APAC.

• Are equally comfortable in a vendor QBR a software requirements review and on a loading dock.

• Network/optical hardware specifically line systems pluggables chassis and the failure/sparing math that goes with it.

• Securelogistics or hightheftlane experience (semiconductor pharma defense precious metals).

• Central integration / rackbuild line experience including shock/vibe qualification.

• Supplychain analytics or costattribution background.

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.

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits optional equity donation matching generous vacation and parental leave flexible working hours and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates AI Usage:Learn aboutour policy for using AI in our application process.