Data Center Electrical Engineer

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation focused on creating reliable and beneficial AI systems. The Data Center Electrical Engineer will be responsible for the electrical design of facilities, ensuring they can support large-scale AI model training while maintaining high standards of reliability and efficiency.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain Anthropic's electrical basis of design, reference architectures, and technical specifications for critical power distribution — covering switchgear, UPS systems, PDUs, busway, and rack power delivery
• Review and approve electrical design packages from build partners and MEP consultants, ensuring designs meet capacity, reliability, and maintainability requirements
• Perform and validate engineering studies including short-circuit, coordination, arc flash, load flow, and power quality analysis; use findings to steer design decisions and equipment selection
• Partner with external engineering and manufacturing teams to evaluate DC construction efficiency opportunities, develop productization roadmap and modular product strategy to enable accelerated DC acceleration and onsite labor reduction
• Evaluate and qualify electrical equipment vendors and product lines; work with supply chain to build a diversified vendor base that mitigates lead-time and single-source risk
• Drive standardization of electrical designs across sites to accelerate deployment timelines while preserving flexibility for site-specific constraints and evolving hardware generations
• Influence industry specifications and engage with equipment manufacturers on roadmap requirements for high-density, ML-optimized electrical infrastructure
• Provide technical oversight during construction and commissioning phases, resolving field engineering issues and reviewing test results against design intent

Requirements:

• 8+ years of electrical engineering experience in mission-critical facilities, with substantial time spent on data center or other high-availability electrical distribution design
• Hold a degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related field; PE licensure is valued but not required
• Hands-on experience producing and reviewing electrical construction documents, single-line diagrams, and equipment specifications, as well as development of prefabricated products and modularization towards offsite manufacturing
• Fluent in power systems analysis and comfortable running or critically reviewing studies in tools such as SKM, ETAP, or EasyPower
• Understand critical power topologies (2N, N+1, distributed redundant, block redundant) and can articulate the trade-offs between them for different reliability and cost targets
• Worked directly with electrical equipment manufacturers and can evaluate products on technical merit, not just datasheet claims
• Communicate clearly with both technical peers and non-specialist stakeholders, and can defend a design position when challenged
• Results-oriented, with a bias toward practical solutions and a willingness to pick up work outside your core remit when the team needs it
• Experience building modular prefabricated products in electrical or mechanical areas of the datacenter
• Background in medium-voltage distribution, on-site generation, or energy storage integration
• Exposure to liquid-cooled infrastructure and its implications for electrical room layout and load distribution
• Familiarity with NFPA 70/70E, IEEE color book series, and relevant international electrical codes for multi-region deployments
• Prior work at a hyperscaler, colocation provider, or MEP consultancy serving large data center clients
• Experience driving reference designs or standards adopted across multiple sites or by external partners