Energy Scheduling & Portfolio Lead

Responsibilities

• Own the live view of contracted, available, and committed energy and capacity across Anthropic’s non-cloud data center portfolio against planned load and ramp.
• Act as the operational counterpart to LSEs, QSEs, scheduling coordinators, and retail and wholesale suppliers across domestic ISO/RTO and international power markets, including ERCOT.
• Manage utility and ISO market-program participation, including curtailment, demand response, flexible interconnection, and non-firm service commitments.
• Predict and track utility, ISO, fuel, equipment, and contract-driven curtailment; coordinate responses to scarcity pricing, emergency procedures, conservation calls, and reliability events.
• Manage ESA counterparty performance and Anthropic’s exposure, including outage notices, availability guarantees, liquidated damages, dispatch coordination, and reporting.
• Determine portfolio gas requirements and build the gas scheduling strategy, including nominations, hub and index pricing, pipeline capacity, constraints, and gas-plant outages.
• Build energy consumption, availability-risk, and cost forecasts using workload plans, site design, ramp, ESA/PPA terms, market prices, and natural gas prices.
• Provide energy-side inputs for Finance, Accounting, and Procurement Ops to reconcile invoices and settlements and explain variances.
• Track ISO/RTO prices, scarcity and reliability conditions, gas hub prices, ancillary and capacity costs, and tariff, interconnection, and market-rule changes.
• Partner with workload planning, site operations, engineering, legal, procurement, energy finance, and origination to align physical energy position with site and workload plans.
• Build the scheduling, portfolio, data, forecasting, metering, telemetry, and settlement processes and tooling from the ground up.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in energy markets, power scheduling, energy procurement, or utility/retail energy operations.
• Hands-on experience with scheduling and settlement review in ERCOT, PJM, NYISO, MISO, or another ISO/RTO market.
• Experience working at or directly with an LSE, QSE, scheduling coordinator, retail energy provider, or load-management desk.
• Knowledge of day-ahead and real-time scheduling, settlements, curtailment, and demand-response programs.
• Fluency reading and operating ESAs, PPAs, and utility large-load interconnection and service agreements.
• Experience navigating shortage pricing, ISO scarcity pricing, emergency procedures, and conservation calls.
• Understanding of gas scheduling, nominations, hub pricing, pipeline constraints, and gas-fired plant outages.
• Experience designing or operating load flexibility for a large load, including curtailment, demand response, non-firm service, or flexible interconnection.
• Understanding of large-load tariff provisions, including minimum demand charges, cost allocation, exit and stranded-cost provisions, study requirements, and collateral requirements.
• Experience building or running energy consumption and cost forecasts for large loads or energy portfolios.
• Ability to coordinate across workload planning, site operations, finance, legal, and origination teams without direct reporting relationships.
• Experience standing up a scheduling, portfolio, or operations function from scratch.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, economics, energy, finance, data science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with data centers or other large, fast-ramping loads in ERCOT, PJM, NYISO, MISO, or another ISO/RTO market.
• Experience with behind-the-meter, islanded, or bridge-power configurations.
• Experience managing counterparty performance under an ESA or tolling agreement, including availability guarantees, outage reporting, liquidated damages, and dispatch coordination.
• Familiarity with hedging and risk management.

Compensation

• Annual salary range: $320000–$405000.