Anthropic
Hardware Lab Manager
$320K–$405K
San Francisco, CA +2 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Aug 3, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
New York City, NY
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- Years required correlate with internal job level requirements; no specific number stated.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience; relevant field of study demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship is available, but not for every role or candidate; if an offer is made, Anthropic will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa and provides immigration counsel.
About the job
Own and scale Anthropic’s Bay Area hardware labs, preparing and maintaining physical compute equipment and supporting teams that use it.
What you'll do
- Run lab operations, including receiving, rack installation, cabling, power, cooling, layout, and hardware bring-up.
- Manage procurement, inventory, repairs and returns, vendors, contractors, physical access, and asset lifecycle tracking.
- Build specialized engineering setups and create playbooks and lightweight tools for lab operations.
What they ask for
- Hands-on experience running a hardware, systems, or datacenter lab or similar physical compute environment.
- Working knowledge of server management, including BMC/IPMI/Redfish, BIOS/UEFI configuration, serial console, PXE/network boot, and firmware updates.
- Linux and networking knowledge sufficient to make a bare machine usable remotely.
- Experience managing vendors, contractors, quotes, and freight for physical equipment.
Nice to have
- Experience standing up a lab or datacenter room; familiarity with high-density accelerator systems, liquid cooling, or pre-release hardware.
- Electronics bench skills; experience supporting hardware security, firmware, or platform bring-up; DCIM or asset-management tools; specialty hardware procurement.
Pay
$320,000 — $405,000 USD (annual salary)
Tools
BMC/IPMI/Redfish, BIOS/UEFI, PXE, Linux, VLANs, DHCP, DNS, NetBox
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