Energy Supply Lead (Power Supply and PPA)

Location: San Francisco, CA or New York City, NY; remote-friendly within the US, with travel required. Staff are expected to work from an Anthropic office at least 25% of the time, and some roles may require more office time.

Annual salary: $1–$2 USD.

Company

Anthropic builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems intended to be safe and beneficial for users and society.

What you will do

• Own the front-of-meter supply plan for each US grid-connected site and market, including contracted volume, suppliers, term, price structure, and timing.
• Build relationships with generators, developers, independent power producers, and retail and wholesale suppliers; run solicitations and negotiate bilateral agreements.
• Structure and negotiate PPAs, tolls, capacity agreements, and other long-term supply contracts through approval and signature.
• Ensure supply structures fit competitive, regulated, cooperative, and public power market rules, including utility tariffs, sleeved arrangements, and customer-sourced generation programs.
• Incorporate ratepayer protection into portfolio design and deal selection, and collaborate with policy and external analysts to measure customer impact.
• Coordinate valuation, approvals, construction-to-operation tracking, amendments, disputes, scheduling handoff, interconnection, load studies, tariff proceedings, and ISO/RTO rule changes.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in power origination, structuring, or energy procurement, including leading PPAs or long-term supply contracts from term sheet to signature.
• Experience buying power for, or selling power to, a large-load customer such as a data center operator, industrial customer, utility, cooperative, or retail supplier.
• Strong knowledge of at least two US ISO/RTO markets, including how to price delivery point, basis, congestion, capacity, and ancillary costs; understanding of supply for large customers in vertically integrated utility territories.
• Ability to independently build and interrogate deal valuations and assess fixed-price, shaped, indexed, and block structures and buyer exposure.
• Ability to read and mark up PPAs, using counsel while retaining commercial judgment.
• Understanding of credit support and project finance, including developer lender requirements and offtaker value.
• Clear written and verbal communication about large commitments with non-energy stakeholders; ability to coordinate across finance, legal, policy, site origination, and scheduling teams.
• Experience building a book, program, or function from zero and working effectively with incomplete information.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and relevant experience; relevant field of study demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.

Nice to have

• Experience contracting supply for data centers or other large, fast-ramping loads.
• Experience with firm and shaped products, storage-backed and hybrid structures, tolling agreements, and offtake from new-build dispatchable or clean firm generation.
• Experience in regulated and public power territories, including sleeved PPAs, utility green or clean-transition tariffs, and large-load tariff provisions protecting other ratepayers.
• Experience on or alongside a trading or structuring desk.
• Experience with virtual PPAs, energy attribute certificates, hourly matching, or emissions accounting.
• Experience with Canadian energy markets.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative environment spanning research, engineering, policy, finance, legal, energy, and business teams.
• Flexible working hours and office collaboration; US-based hybrid attendance is expected.
• Competitive compensation, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation, and parental leave.
• Anthropic sponsors visas and makes reasonable efforts to support successful candidates with an immigration lawyer.
• Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco.

Hiring process

• Applicants should review Anthropic’s guidance on candidate use of AI during the application process.
• Legitimate recruiter communication comes from @anthropic.com or identified vetted recruiting agencies; recruiters will not request money, fees, or banking information before the first day.