Infrastructure Tax Lead
Remote • Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY
Posted 16d ago
Job Location
Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
Fully remote
Categories
AI Infrastructure Engineer
About the job
Anthropic is making significant, sustained investment in compute infrastructure to support its AI safety mission. The company is seeking an Infrastructure Tax Lead to manage tax end-to-end across this portfolio. This role will be integrated with the Infrastructure team, involved from the initial deal flow, and will coordinate with various departments including Legal, Technical Accounting, FP&A, International Tax, Transfer Pricing, Provision, and Incentives. The Infrastructure Tax Lead will be responsible for shaping deals from a tax perspective, leading incentive workstreams, and ensuring tax implications are accurately reflected in economic analyses and deal approvals.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the embedded tax partner to the Infrastructure team on deal intake, gathering facts and providing structure review and term-sheet input.
- Lead the Incentives workstream, focusing on state and local incentives, sales and use exemptions, property tax incentives, and site selection tax input.
- Partner with Tax Transactions and Tax Planning teams on service vs. lease characterization, entity structure, and contract tax provisions for non-standard structures.
- Lead after-tax deal economics, including bonus depreciation modeling, NOL utilization, and scenario analysis, ensuring accurate tax assumptions in deal approval packages.
- Coordinate with Technical Accounting on lease-versus-purchase treatment, consolidation, capitalization policy, and book-tax differences.
- Establish and maintain datacenter entity structures across jurisdictions, including formation, operationalization, documentation, withholding, permanent establishment risk, and debt-versus-equity characterization.
- Partner with transfer pricing on policy for the infrastructure footprint, including intercompany compute pricing, benchmarking, and documentation.
- Collaborate with the tax provision team on the quarterly impact of new structures and deferred tax positions.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure tax playbooks, issue-spotting checklists, and internal processes to scale the function with deal volume.
Requirements
- 12+ years of tax experience with significant exposure to datacenter and tax planning, including international scope.
- JD or CPA required; LL.M. in Taxation or MST is a plus.
- Experience establishing and maintaining entity structures across multiple jurisdictions, including documentation and operationalization with local teams.
- Working fluency in cross-border withholding, permanent establishment analysis, and debt-versus-equity characterization.
- Proven track record of owning the integrated tax position across a portfolio of deals from term sheet to post-close.
- Demonstrated ability to operate as a cross-functional coordinator, working effectively with Legal, Accounting, FP&A, and business teams.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, capable of translating complex tax positions into clear guidance.
- Comfort with ambiguity and a track record of building processes from scratch in a fast-moving environment.