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Anthropic

Develops reliable, interpretable AI systems

Finance & Strategy - Machines

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/3/2026
$240k - $325k/yr
Mid, Senior
Bachelor's, MBA
San Francisco, CA, USA
HybridStaff are expected to be in an office at least 25% of the time.
H1B Sponsorship Available

About the job

Requirements
  • Owned a forecast or budget end to end at a hardware, semiconductor, hyperscaler, or infrastructure-heavy business.
  • Strong driver-based modeling skills and budget-versus-actual and 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.
  • A bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
  • A field of study relevant to the role, as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
  • Visa sponsorship availability depends on the role and candidate; if an offer is made, Anthropic will make reasonable efforts to obtain a visa.
Responsibilities
  • Own the hardware forecast, including delivery volumes, lease and financing expense, and cash flows.
  • Run budget-versus-actuals for machine spend and maintain a consolidated view of fleet costs and their drivers.
  • Serve as the single point of contact for Machines during 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 reporting that keeps leadership's view of machine spend current.
Desired 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.

About the company

Anthropic focuses on AI research to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Its main product, Claude, is an AI assistant designed to handle tasks at any scale for clients across industries, delivered through deployment and licensing along with specialized AI R&D services. Claude works by combining natural language processing, human feedback, reinforcement learning, and interpretability techniques to produce a capable, controllable AI assistant that can assist with a wide range of tasks. The company differentiates itself from competitors by prioritizing safety, transparency, and controllability—emphasizing reliability, interpretability of model behavior, and user-controlled steerability in its AI systems. Anthropic’s goal is to make AI systems that people can trust and efficiently use to improve operations and decision-making across sectors.

Company Size

5,001-10,000

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

$224.8B

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2021

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What believers are saying

  • Barclays expanded Claude across global operations on October 1, 2026.
  • The Frontier Academy will train 10,000 engineers by end-2027, starting with Accenture and Morgan Stanley.
  • Anthropic’s IPO prep and pre-IPO investor day on October 14 signal momentum.

What critics are saying

  • The FTC opened an investigation on September 30, 2026 into Anthropic’s consumer harms.
  • A D.C. appeals court upheld Pentagon blacklisting on September 25, 2026.
  • Broadcom financing and $518 billion cloud obligations create existential cash strain before IPO.

What makes Anthropic unique

  • Claude Code embedded at Barclays, reaching 50% of developers by year-end 2026.
  • Anthropic’s safety-first brand still wins enterprise trust under strict governance, like Barclays.
  • The Frontier Academy turns Claude deployment into a certifiable workforce moat.

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Flexible Work Hours

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Hybrid Work Options

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