Finance & Strategy, Machines

Anthropic$240K — $325K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years in FP&A, strategic finance, or capacity/infrastructure finance
  • Proven experience in budgeting or forecasting for hardware or semiconductor companies
  • Strong driver-based modeling and variance analysis skills
  • Ability to collaborate effectively with engineering and commercial teams
  • Passion for building safe and transformative AI systems

Responsibilities

  • Own the hardware forecast including delivery volumes and cash flows
  • Monitor budget vs. actuals for machine expenses and provide insightful analysis
  • Act as the primary financial liaison for machines in accounting and FP&A cycles
  • Coordinate inputs for forecasting with capacity planning and deal teams
  • Track multi-year hardware commitment expenses and cash-flow timing
  • Engage with accounting on lease agreements and their financial implications
  • Support financial analyses on chip and accelerator economics

Benefits

  • Visa sponsorship available
  • Hybrid work policy with required in-office presence at least 25% of the time
  • Encouragement for diverse applicants, valuing representation on the team
  • Commitment to creating a safe and ethical workplace culture
Full Job Description
About the role

We are seeking a Machines FP&A lead to own financial planning for the chips and accelerators that run our models. You will own the hardware forecast and budget, keep leadership's view of machine spend current, and be the single finance point of contact for machines into Accounting and consolidated FP&A.

In this role, you will be a key partner to our capacity planning and hardware teams, and work day to day with the Compute deal team, Accounting, and the consolidated FP&A team.
Key responsibilities
  • Own the hardware forecast: delivery volumes, lease and financing expense, and cash flows
  • Run budget vs. actuals for machine spend: one view of what the fleet costs and why it moved
  • Serve as the single point of contact for machines in forecast and close cycles with Accounting and consolidated FP&A
  • 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 led by the Machines finance team
  • Build the reporting that keeps leadership's machine spend picture current
Minimum qualifications
  • 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 to build safe, transformative AI systems
Preferred qualifications
  • 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


The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role's On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary:

$240,000-$325,000 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from [redacted].com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links-visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.

About Anthropic

Anthropic is an artificial intelligence research lab that focuses on developing AI systems that are safe, reliable, and trustworthy. The company was founded in 2019 by Dr. Yoshua Bengio, a leading AI researcher and winner of the Turing Award. Anthropic's research is focused on developing AI systems that can learn from small amounts of data, reason about complex systems, and interact with humans in a natural way. The company is based in New York City and has a team of experienced AI researchers and engineers.
Learn more about Anthropic
Size
50 employees
Industry
Founded
2019

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