Logistics Manager

Anthropic•San Francisco, CA

11h•$365,000 - $435,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The Infrastructure Expansion team manages Anthropic's deployed capital assets through a global network of warehouses, integrators, and field sites. This role involves building and leading the logistics function, focusing on process and SOP engineering, warehousing and inventory management, high-value equipment shipping with chain-of-custody and security, and heavy/oversized material movement. The goal is to ensure the right equipment arrives at the right location, on time, and intact.

Requirements

Experience running global hardware logistics at hyperscaler, large OEM/ODM, telecom, or energy-infra scale, including multi-site warehouse networks, 3PL management, and high-value/oversized freight.
Proven ability to write SOPs and establish QA systems for hardware operations.
Experience as a business-side owner of a WMS/inventory/asset-lifecycle system, including defining requirements and owning data quality.
Experience moving heavy equipment (generators, transformers, skids, prefab modules) with associated permits, rigging, and site receiving.
Experience standing up a function from scratch, including system selection, process writing, team hiring, and performance ownership.
Fluency in trade compliance for dual-use electronics across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.
Comfortable in vendor QBRs, software requirements reviews, and on a loading dock.

Nice To Haves

Specific experience with network/optical hardware (line systems, pluggables, chassis) and associated failure/sparing math.
Experience in secure logistics or high-theft lanes (semiconductor, pharma, defense, precious metals).
Experience with central integration/rack-build lines, including shock/vibe qualification.
Background in supply-chain analytics or cost-attribution.

Responsibilities

Own process and SOP engineering for receiving, inspection, kitting, integration, ship-out, install, and RMA, including QA/audit loops.
Run warehousing and inventory management, including establishing the warehouse network, defining the sparing model, and implementing cycle-count/reconciliation discipline.
Act as the business owner for the asset-lifecycle platform, partnering with the software team to define requirements, data models, state machines, and integrations.
Own high-value shipping operations, including carrier selection, lane risk assessment, traceability, and insurance/claims management.
Manage heavy and oversized logistics, including route surveys, permits, rigging, crane coordination, and site-receiving plans.
Oversee trade compliance (ECCN/ITAR classification, licensing) and reverse logistics (RMA, repair, decommission, disposition).
Build and lead the logistics team, including warehouse operations, logistics coordinators, process/QA engineers, and trade compliance personnel.