Energy Scheduling & Portfolio Lead

Location: Remote-friendly, United States; staff are expected to be in one of the offices at least 25% of the time, with some roles requiring more office time.

Annual salary: $320,000–$405,000 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 live view of contracted, available, and committed energy and capacity across non-cloud data center sites against planned compute load and ramp.
• Schedule and manage physical electricity and natural gas delivery, working with LSEs, QSEs, scheduling coordinators, utilities, retail and wholesale suppliers, and ISO/RTO markets.
• Predict and manage curtailment, shortage pricing, reliability events, demand response, flexible interconnection, non-firm service commitments, and site load-response playbooks.
• Operate ESA, PPA, utility agreement, and market-program terms, including outage notices, availability guarantees, liquidated damages, dispatch coordination, reporting, performance, compensation, and cost tracking.
• Build energy forecasting, gas scheduling, metering, telemetry, settlement, invoice-reconciliation, data, and tooling processes for the portfolio.
• Coordinate with energy finance, data center operations, workload and site planning, engineering, legal, procurement, and energy origination to align physical energy availability with compute plans.

Requirements

• 8+ years in energy markets, power scheduling, energy procurement, or utility/retail energy operations, including hands-on scheduling and settlement review in ERCOT, PJM, NYISO, MISO, or another ISO/RTO market.
• Experience working at or directly with an LSE, QSE, scheduling coordinator, retail energy provider, or load-management desk; knowledge of day-ahead and real-time scheduling, settlements, and curtailment or demand-response programs.
• Ability to read and operate ESA, PPA, and utility large-load interconnection and service-agreement terms covering scheduling, availability, curtailment, and pricing, and to model the resulting exposure.
• Experience predicting curtailment for a large load and navigating ISO scarcity pricing, emergency procedures, and conservation calls.
• Understanding of gas scheduling, including nominations, hub pricing, pipeline constraints, and gas-fired plant outages affecting served load.
• Experience designing or operating large-load flexibility, including curtailment, demand response, non-firm service, or flexible interconnection, plus knowledge of large-load tariff provisions, minimum demand charges, cost allocation, exit and stranded-cost provisions, study requirements, and collateral requirements.
• Experience building or operating energy consumption and cost forecasts for large loads, data centers, industrials, or retail/wholesale portfolios, tied to contract terms and market prices.
• Ability to coordinate across workload planning, site operations, finance, legal, and energy origination, and clearly communicate energy availability, need, and risk.
• Experience establishing a scheduling, portfolio, or operations function from scratch and building its models and processes.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as engineering, economics, energy, finance, or data science, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Experience with data centers or other large, fast-ramping loads in ERCOT, PJM, NYISO, MISO, or another ISO/RTO market.
• Experience with behind-the-meter, islanded, or bridge-power configurations and ESA or tolling-agreement counterparty performance.
• Familiarity with energy-cost hedging and risk management, including fixed-price, index, shaped, and block products.
• Familiarity with natural gas markets, regional basis hubs, gas-price indices, pipeline nominations, and capacity.
• Experience with energy data and metering systems, interval data, and forecasting models.
• Exposure to large-load tariff proceedings, interconnection rulemakings, utility rate cases, and utility or ISO demand-response, curtailment, and flexible-interconnection programs.
• Prior experience establishing an operations or analytics function in a growing team.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative work across research, engineering, policy, business, finance, operations, legal, and procurement functions.
• Flexible working hours and a location-based hybrid policy.
• Competitive compensation, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation, and parental leave.
• Office space for collaboration and frequent research discussions.
• Visa sponsorship may be available, with immigration-lawyer support and reasonable efforts made for eligible offers.