Tax Principal, Business Advisory

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.

Were seeking an experienced Tax Principal to serve as a trusted business advisor and deep technical resource across our tax this role youll partner directly with business product and go-to-market teams to advise on the tax implications of strategic initiatives new products commercial arrangements and market expansion translating sophisticated technical analysis into clear decision-ready guidance that helps the business move quickly and confidently. Youll also assist with audit defense and dispute management efforts and conduct technical research and documentation for complex tax issues across the tax team.

Youll navigate the evolving digital economy tax landscape including digital services taxes (DSTs) Pillar 2 and emerging AI-specific tax regulations while ensuring compliance across multiple jurisdictions. Youll be a go-to expert who can tackle sophisticated tax questions prepare audit-quality memoranda and translate technical concepts for business stakeholders. This role is critical to ensuring we have bulletproof tax positions robust risk management processes and comprehensive documentation as we face heightened scrutiny from auditors tax authorities and stakeholders in the rapidly evolving AI industry.

• Serve as a strategic tax advisor to business product partnerships and go-to-market teams on new initiatives product launches pricing and billing structures and commercial arrangements
• Provide practical business-oriented tax guidance on strategic transactions including infrastructure and compute arrangements as the company scales
• Review and negotiate tax provisions in commercial contracts cloud service agreements and partnership arrangements
• Advise on the tax considerations of international expansion and new market entry partnering with cross-functional teams from early planning through execution
• Collaborate with Legal Finance and business teams on cross-functional matters translating technical positions into actionable recommendations

• Research and document significant technical tax issues including equity compensation and operational tax questions
• Prepare comprehensive tax technical memoranda meeting rigorous audit standards
• Conduct in-depth research on complex federal and international tax issues using primary sources (Code regulations case law legislative history)
• Draft technical memoranda supporting material tax positions and planning initiatives
• Maintain tax technical research library and documentation standards
• Stay current on tax law developments and assess impact on Anthropics operations

• Partner with tax team members to assist with driving tax audit defense and dispute resolution efforts including preparing audit defense files coordinating responses to tax authority inquiries and managing relationships during examinations and appeals processes
• Assist with quarterly and annual tax provision processes (FIN 48/ASC 740 compliance) analyze and document uncertain tax positions and related reserves and support external auditor discussions regarding tax provision matters

• JD or LLM in Taxation from an accredited law school
• Exceptional tax technical research and writing skills
• Deep expertise in US federal income tax research methodology and primary source materials
• Experience preparing technical tax memoranda for audit or IRS defense purposes
• Proven ability to translate complex tax technical concepts into clear well-documented analysis and practical business guidance
• Demonstrated success partnering with business teams as a strategic advisor not just a technical reviewer
• Meticulous attention to detail and commitment to technical excellence

• 812 years of tax experience with significant Big 4 and/or large law firm background
• Experience with tax technical software/databases (Bloomberg Tax RIA Checkpoint Westlaw)
• Experience with equity compensation tax matters (Section 83 409A 422 etc.)
• Knowledge of international tax matters (Subpart F GILTI transfer pricing treaty analysis)
• Experience in technology or AI/software industry
• Prior in-house experience at a high-growth technology company
• Familiarity with public company tax operations and reporting requirements

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.