Anthropic
AI
DataCenterElectricalEngineer
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“Data Center Electrical Engineer at Anthropic. Skills: Data center electrical design, APAC region expertise, Japanese language proficiency. Lead electrical design of facilities. Develop and maintain reference designs”
Industry & Context.
Resolve field engineering issues; Make sound trade-offs when the standard playbook doesn’t apply
Travel to sites, Visa sponsorship available
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
10+ years of electrical engineering experience in mission-critical facilities, substantial time spent on data center or other high-availability electrical distribution design across the project lifecycle, Speak, read, and write Japanese fluently, interpret Japanese technical documentation, communicate effectively with local utilities, authorities, vendors, and contractors, familiar with data center design conventions and regulatory/code regimes across Japan, Korea, and the broader APAC region including Australia, comfortable designing to IEC standards and local jurisdictional requirements, Hold a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field, hands-on experience producing and reviewing electrical construction documents, single-line diagrams, equipment specifications, interpret data center schematics and technical layouts with confidence, knowledge of rack layout, structured cabling, power distribution, and cooling infrastructure in high-availability data center environments, fluent in power systems analysis, comfortable running or critically reviewing studies in tools such as SKM, ETAP, or EasyPower, Understand critical power topologies (2N, N+1, distributed redundant, block redundant), articulate the trade-offs between them for different reliability and cost targets, worked directly with electrical equipment manufacturers, vendors, and contractors, evaluate products on technical merit, Communicate clearly with both technical peers and non-specialist stakeholders, results-oriented, bias toward practical solutions, willingness to pick up work outside your core remit when the team needs it
Nice to Have
PE/Chartered Engineer licensure, Direct project experience delivering data centers in multiple APAC markets (e.g., Japan, Korea, Australia, Singapore), familiarity with regional codes and standards such as JIS/JEAC, alongside IEC, NFPA 70/70E, and the IEEE color book series, Background in medium-voltage distribution, on-site generation, or energy storage integration, Exposure to liquid-cooled infrastructure and its implications for electrical room layout and load distribution, Prior work at a hyperscaler, colocation provider, or MEP consultancy serving large data center clients, A background in banking or other mission-critical facilities, Experience driving reference designs or standards adopted across multiple sites or by external partners
What You'll Do.
Lead electrical design of facilities
Develop and maintain reference designs
Review engineering submittals
Run analysis for decisions
Ensure electrical architecture keeps pace
Translate accelerator requirements
Qualify regional equipment vendors
Create diversified vendor base
Understand and define site utility requirements
Ensure compliance with requirements
Present findings and proposals
Defend design positions
Coordinate and oversee implementation
Ensure work follows approved designs
Comply with safety standards
Comply with regulatory standards
Comply with operational standards
Test and validate installation
Resolve field engineering issues
Manage concurrent projects
Travel to sites for design review
Travel to sites for electrical systems audits
Travel to sites for engineering evaluations
Travel to sites for startup support
Contribute to continuous improvement
Act as a leader within engineering group
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with build partners; Partner with equipment manufacturers; Partner with utilities; Work with hardware teams; Work with compute teams; Work with supply chain; Work with regional vendors; Work with manufacturers; Work with local utilities; Work with local agencies; Present findings to internal stakeholders; Present findings to DCO teams; Coordinate with vendors; Coordinate with contractors; Coordinate with internal teams; Work with commissioning teams; Work alongside onsite field engineers; Collaborate with colleagues
Communication Scope
Communicate clearly with technical peers; Communicate clearly with non-specialist stakeholders; Communicate effectively with local utilities; Communicate effectively with authorities; Communicate effectively with vendors; Communicate effectively with contractors; Defend design positions when challenged; Clear reports and presentations
Process & Methodology
Manage concurrent projects
Full Job Description
About Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. About the role Training and serving frontier AI models requires compute infrastructure at a scale and density that pushes past what conventional data center designs were built to handle. Anthropic’s Data Center team is responsible for delivering that physical infrastructure — partnering with build partners, equipment manufacturers, and utilities to stand up facilities that can reliably power some of the largest accelerator clusters in the industry. As a Data Center Electrical Engineer based in Japan, you’ll lead the electrical design of our facilities across our rapidly expanding Asia Pacific (APAC) portfolio — owning the architecture from the utility service entrance through to the rack. You’ll develop and maintain the reference designs and specifications our build partners work against, review their engineering submittals, and run the analysis needed to make confident decisions on topology, redundancy, and equipment selection. You’ll ensure the electrical architecture keeps pace with rapidly increasing rack densities and the unique load characteristics of large-scale ML training. This is a global role with a regional focus. You’ll bring fluency in the data center design conventions, codes, and supply markets of Japan, Korea, and the broader APAC region including Australia, and act as Anthropic’s on-the-ground electrical subject-matter expert with local utilities, agencies having jurisdiction, vendors, and contractors. It is also a highly cross-functional role: you’ll work with our hardware and compute teams to translate accelerator requirements into electrical design criteria, and with supply chain to qualify regional equipment vend
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