Senior Field Engineer, Data Center Design and Engineering

About this role

Represent Anthropic’s data center engineering team at active construction sites, verifying installed work against designs and resolving technical issues. Coordinate with development partners, contractors, vendors, and engineers to close issues, investigate failures, and keep projects on track for commissioning and handover. More than half of the role involves on-site work and overnight travel, with the remainder remote from a home base.

About the company

Anthropic builds reliable and interpretable AI systems, including the Claude family of models, for businesses and developers. The company focuses on AI safety research and practical AI assistants for enterprise and consumer use.

The team

Data Center Design and Engineering team

What you'll do

• Inspect installed work against approved designs and determine whether it meets design requirements.
• Track engineering issues with owners and due dates, follow up, and escalate blockers with recommendations.
• Investigate equipment, installation, and test failures; verify corrective actions and check for similar risks across sites.
• Resolve design questions, RFIs, deviations, and field changes to support commissioning and handover.
• Turn recurring field issues into improvements to designs, standards, and audit checklists.
• Promote site safety and stop unsafe work.

What we're looking for

• Experience delivering complex projects at active sites in energy, power, heavy industrial, data center, or similar environments.
• Ability to read drawings, single-line diagrams, P&IDs, specifications, and schedules and identify conflicts with installed work.
• Examples of influencing contractors, vendors, or partners without formal authority.
• Experience leading structured failure investigations and following corrective actions through to completion.
• Clear, concise factual reporting and sound judgment under pressure.
• Engineering, construction management, or related degree, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Owner’s representative experience overseeing an EPC or general contractor.
• Commissioning, startup, or system turnover experience.
• Experience in LNG, refining, offshore, power generation, semiconductor, or naval environments.
• Electrical, mechanical, or civil, structural, and architectural engineering background.
• PE license, PMP, or OSHA 30 certification.
• Familiarity with Procore or Primavera P6.

Benefits

• Flexible working hours
• Generous vacation and parental leave
• Optional equity donation matching