Finance & Strategy, Machines

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation focused on building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We are seeking a Machines FP&A lead to own financial planning for the chips and accelerators that run our models. This role will own the hardware forecast and budget, keep leadership's view of machine spend current, and serve as the single finance point of contact for machines into Accounting and consolidated FP&A.

• Own the hardware forecast: delivery volumes, lease and financing expense, and cash flows
• Run budget vs. actuals for machine spend
• Serve as the single point of contact for machines in forecast and close cycles
• Coordinate forecast inputs with Capacity Planning and the Compute deal team
• Track spend and cash-flow phasing against multi-year hardware commitments
• Partner with Accounting on the treatment of leases and related agreements
• Support chip and accelerator economics analyses
• Build reporting that keeps leadership's machine spend picture current

• Owned a forecast or budget end to end at a hardware, semiconductor, hyperscaler, or infrastructure-heavy business
• Strong driver-based modeling skills and budget-vs-actual / variance discipline
• Comfort partnering closely with engineering and commercial teams under deal-timeline pressure
• Passion for Anthropic's mission

• 7+ years in FP&A, strategic finance, or capacity/infrastructure finance
• Capacity planning or infrastructure FP&A experience at a hyperscaler or major chip maker
• Experience building forecast infrastructure for a new or fast-changing spend area
• Lease and long-term-agreement accounting fluency
• MBA, CFA, or equivalent

Annual Salary: $240,000—$325,000 USD

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. Visa sponsorship is available.