Anthropic· Finance· Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY
Infrastructure Tax Lead
Classified Tasks (22)
Automate 0%Augment 68%Human-Only 32%
Augment (15)
AI assists, human decides
Gather facts on site specifications, counterparty structure, commercial terms, and timing for each deal
operational
Provide structure review and term-sheet tax input early enough to shape deal economics and documentation
technical
Ensure incentive commitments and compliance obligations are reflected in the integrated tax position for each site
operational
Partner with Tax Transactions and Tax Planning teams on service-versus-lease characterization for deals
technical
Partner with Tax Transactions and Tax Planning teams on entity structure decisions across transactions
technical
Draft and own contract tax provisions and determine tax treatment across a portfolio of non-standard structures
technical
Lead after-tax deal economics, including bonus depreciation modeling for large-scale buildouts, NOL utilization analysis, and scenario analysis
analytical
Partner with Tax Planning, Tax Operations, and Infrastructure Accounting to ensure tax assumptions are reflected accurately in deal approval packages
operational
Coordinate with Technical Accounting on lease-versus-purchase treatment, consolidation questions, capitalization policy, and book-tax differences
technical
Manage withholding on cross-border financing arrangements related to datacenter entities
technical
Partner with transfer pricing to develop policy for the infrastructure footprint, including intercompany compute pricing
analytical
Perform benchmarking and prepare transfer pricing documentation to support intercompany flows as they scale
analytical
Partner with the tax provision team to quantify quarterly impacts of new structures and deferred tax positions
analytical
Reconcile deal-close tax positions with quarter-close reporting to avoid surprises between deal close and quarter close
operational
Build and maintain infrastructure tax playbooks, issue-spotting checklists, and internal processes to scale the tax function with deal volume
administrative
Human-Only (7)
Requires human judgment
Own tax end-to-end across the infrastructure portfolio and coordinate tax activities at the point of deal flow
leadership
Serve as the embedded tax partner to the Infrastructure team on deal intake
communication
Lead the incentives workstream on state and local incentives, sales and use exemptions, property tax incentives, and site selection tax input
leadership
Stand up and maintain datacenter entity structures across jurisdictions, including entity formation activities
administrative
Operationalize new entities with local finance, legal, and accounting teams and ensure contemporaneous documentation
operational
Assess permanent establishment risk for cross-border operations and transactions
analytical
Characterize debt-versus-equity for financing and capital structures of datacenter entities
technical
Job description
About Anthropic Anthropic’s 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. About the Role Anthropic is making significant, sustained investment in compute infrastructure to support our AI safety mission. We are looking for an Infrastructure Tax Lead to own tax end-to-end across that portfolio — sitting at the point of deal flow, embedded with the Infrastructure team, and coordinating across Legal, Technical Accounting, FP&A, International Tax, Transfer Pricing, Provision, and Incentives. Responsibilities Serve as the embedded tax partner to Infrastructure team on deal intake: gather facts on site specs, counterparty structure, commercial terms, and timing; provide structure review and term-sheet input early enough to shape the deal Lead Incentives workstream on state and local incentives, sales and use exemptions, property tax incentives, and site selection tax input; ensure incentive commitments and compliance obligations are reflected in the integrated tax position for each site Partner with Tax Transactions and Tax Planning teams on service vs lease characterization, entity structure, and own contract tax provisions;and treatment across a portfolio of non-standard structures Lead after-tax deal economics: bonus depreciation modeling on large-scale buildouts, NOL utilization, and scenario analysis; partner with Tax Planning, Tax Operations, and Infrastructure Accounting to ensure tax assumptions are reflected accurately in deal approval packages Coordinate with Technical Accounting on lease-versus-purchase treatment, consolidation questions, capitalization policy, and book-tax differences across a range of deal structures Stand up and maintain datacenter entity structures across jurisdictions: entity formation, operationalization with local teams, contemporaneous documentation, withholding on cross-border financing, permanent establishment risk, and debt-versus-equity characterization Partner with transfer pricing on policy for the infrastructure footprint: intercompany compute pricing, benchmarking, and documentation that will withstand scrutiny as intercompany flows scale Partner with the tax provision team on quarterly impact of new structures and deferred tax positions; ensure there are no surprises between deal close and quarter close Build and maintain infrastructure tax playbooks, issue-spotting checklists, and internal processes so the function scales with deal volume rather than linearly with headcount You may be a good fit if you have 12+ years of tax experience with significant exposure to datacenter, tax planning, including meaningful international range JD or CPA required; LL.M. in Taxation or MST a plus Experience standing up and maintaining entity structures across multiple jurisdictions, including contemporaneous documentation and operationalizing with local finance, legal, and accounting teams Working fluency in cross-border withholding on intercompany and third-party financing, permanent establishment analysis, and debt-versus-equity characterization Track record of owning the integrated tax position across a portfolio of deals — not advising on one issue at a time, but carrying the thread across functions from term sheet to post-close Demonstrated ability to operate as a cross-functional coordinator: comfortable running point across Legal, Accounting, FP&A, and business teams without formal authority over any of them Exceptional