Senior Manager, Infrastructure Tax

Location: Remote-friendly, but staff are expected to work from one of the offices at least 25% of the time; San Francisco, California. Travel is required.

Annual salary: $180,000–$230,000 USD.

Company

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

What you will do

• Run tax deal intake for individual infrastructure transactions, gathering site, counterparty, commercial, and timing details and preparing structure reviews and term-sheet input.
• Analyze service-versus-lease characterization, entity structures, contract tax provisions, and other transaction issues.
• Build and maintain after-tax deal economics models covering bonus depreciation, NOL utilization, and scenario analysis.
• Prepare tax inputs for Technical Accounting on lease-versus-purchase treatment, consolidation, capitalization policy, and book-tax differences.
• Execute datacenter entity structures across jurisdictions, including formation, documentation, withholding, permanent establishment analysis, and debt-versus-equity characterization.
• Support transfer pricing, quarterly tax provision inputs, infrastructure tax playbooks, issue-spotting checklists, and internal trackers.

Requirements

• JD or CPA required; LL.M. in Taxation or MST is beneficial.
• Experience supporting entity structures across multiple jurisdictions and collaborating with local finance, legal, and accounting teams.
• Working knowledge of cross-border withholding, permanent establishment analysis, and debt-versus-equity characterization.
• Experience owning capital-intensive deal workstreams from intake through post-close with limited supervision.
• Ability to manage multiple deals and collaborate across Legal, Accounting, FP&A, Tax, and business teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, comfort with ambiguity, and adaptability in a fast-moving environment.

Nice to have

• 8–10 years of tax experience involving datacenter or infrastructure tax planning and international work.
• Big Four or law firm experience in datacenter or infrastructure tax.
• In-house tax experience at a hyperscaler, cloud provider, or large-scale datacenter operator.
• Hands-on transfer pricing experience, including benchmarking and documentation.
• Experience with owner-operator transitions, construction-period capitalization, property tax, sales and use tax, and non-US datacenter tax regimes.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative environment focused on large-scale AI safety research and high-impact work.
• Flexible working hours and regular research discussions.
• Competitive compensation, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation, and parental leave.
• Visa sponsorship is available, subject to role and candidate eligibility; immigration lawyer support is provided.
• Office-based collaboration with staff expected to be in an office at least 25% of the time.