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$320,000 – $405,000
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What this role is
This role manages Anthropic's Bay Area hardware labs, overseeing everything from receiving and racking equipment to setting up bare servers, managing vendor relationships, and building documentation so remote teams can work independently. It suits someone with hands-on datacenter or lab experience who enjoys taking ownership of physical infrastructure and can troubleshoot both the gear itself and the systems that support it.
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What they ask for
Required
- Hands-on experience running a hardware, systems, or datacenter lab or similar physical compute environment
- Knowledge of rack-and-stack, copper and fiber cabling, and power distribution including PDUs and circuits
- Working knowledge of server hardware management including BMC/IPMI/Redfish, BIOS/UEFI, serial console, PXE, and firmware updates
- Sufficient Linux and networking knowledge to provision bare machines for remote use
- Experience managing vendors, contractors, quotes, and freight for physical equipment
- Safe and competent use of power tools, bench power supplies, and ability to read wiring and rack diagrams
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and know when to escalate
- Bias toward action and comfort making decisions with incomplete information
Nice to have
- Experience standing up a lab or datacenter from scratch including layout, power and cooling planning, and initial procurement
- Experience with high-density accelerator systems (GPU/TPU-class racks), liquid cooling, or pre-release hardware bring-up
- Electronics bench skills including soldering, rework, oscilloscope and multimeter use, custom cabling, debug harnesses, and light fabrication
- Background supporting hardware security, firmware, or platform bring-up
- Experience with DCIM or asset-management tools like NetBox or ServiceNow
- Experience sourcing specialty or hard-to-find hardware and managing associated compliance and logistics