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Formfactor

Senior Capacity Planner

Livermore, CA · On-site

The SeniorCapacity Planner owns and evolves the finite capacity planning strategy across assigned and adjacent value streams (assembly, test, sub-fabsupport operations), ensuring alignment of ...

FormFactor, Inc.

Senior Capacity Planner

Livermore, CA · On-site

The Senior Capacity Planner owns and evolves the finite capacity planning strategy across assigned and adjacent value streams (assembly, test, sub-fab support operations), ensuring alignment of ...

Crusoe

Senior GPU Capacity Planner

San Francisco, CA · On-site

About the Role At Crusoe, the Capacity Planning & Efficiency team operates at the critical intersection of all Crusoe products, services, and underlying physical infrastructure. As the Senior GPU ...

Crusoe

Senior GPU Capacity Planner

Sunnyvale, CA · On-site

About the Role At Crusoe, the Capacity Planning & Efficiency team operates at the critical intersection of all Crusoe products, services, and underlying physical infrastructure. As the Senior GPU ...

Crusoe

Senior GPU Capacity Planner

San Francisco, CA · On-site

About the Role At Crusoe, the Capacity Planning & Efficiency team operates at the critical intersection of all Crusoe products, services, and underlying physical infrastructure. As the Senior GPU ...

Nvidia

Manager, Capacity Planning

Santa Clara, CA · On-site

NVIDIA is seeking a dynamic leader to own our global capacity planning. This individual will lead the end-to-end capacity planning process across foundries and contract manufacturers sites. This ...

NVIDIA Gruppe

Manager, Capacity Planning

Santa Clara, CA · On-site

$144 - $247.25/hr

NVIDIA is seeking a dynamic leader to own our global capacity planning. This individual will lead the end-to-end capacity planning process across foundries and contract manufacturers sites. This ...

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As of Aug 28, 2026, the average yearly pay for capacity planner in California is $85,584.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $56,300.00 and $125,300.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is a capacity planner?

A capacity planner oversees a department or unit at a production facility. As a capacity planner, your job duties include assessing and analyzing the unit’s production process, determining how to improve its system efficiency, and performing research to measure changes in production or market demand for products. You also write reports outlining your analysis and suggestions for management. The career typically requires a bachelor’s degree, preferably in supply chain management or industrial engineering, and relevant work experience. Additional qualifications include excellent analytical, organizational, and communication skills, along with problem-solving ability and attention to detail.

What does a capacity planner do?

A Capacity Planner is responsible for analyzing and forecasting an organization’s resource needs to ensure that supply meets demand efficiently. They evaluate current utilization levels, predict future requirements, and develop plans to optimize the use of resources such as staff, equipment, or production facilities. Capacity Planners work closely with various departments to align capacity with business goals and prevent bottlenecks or shortages. Their role is critical in industries like manufacturing, IT, and logistics to maintain smooth operations and cost-effectiveness.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a capacity planner, and why are they important?

To thrive as a Capacity Planner, you need strong analytical skills, forecasting expertise, and a background in operations management or a related field. Familiarity with capacity planning software (like SAP, Oracle, or Excel), data analysis tools, and sometimes industry-specific certifications is important. Excellent communication, problem-solving abilities, and attention to detail help you collaborate across departments and respond to dynamic business needs. These skills ensure that organizations can optimize resources, meet demand efficiently, and minimize costs.

How does a capacity planner typically collaborate with other departments to ensure accurate forecasting?

Capacity Planners work closely with teams such as operations, supply chain, finance, and sales to gather the data needed for accurate forecasting. They regularly participate in cross-functional meetings to understand upcoming projects, production changes, and market demands. By maintaining clear communication and aligning on business goals, Capacity Planners help ensure resources are allocated efficiently and potential bottlenecks are addressed proactively. This collaborative environment helps drive continuous improvement and supports the overall success of organizational objectives.
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Infographic showing various Capacity Planner job openings in California as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 89% Full Time, 9% Part Time, and 2% Contract. Highlights an 91% Physical, 3% Hybrid, and 6% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $85,584 per year, or $41.1 per hour.

Infrastructure Capacity Planner, Demand Planning

San Francisco, CA • On-site

Anthropic
Software Development • 11 - 50 employees
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Full-time

Posted 17 days ago

Job description

About the Role

Anthropic's infrastructure fleet spans a growing set of clouds, neoclouds, and on-prem sites.  Every part of it is expanding rapidly. Capacity Engineering is the team that connects every stage of that growth, from capacity planning to supply management to capacity delivery to utilization. We partner on supply deals, wire telemetry from day zero, own the canonical capacity data layer, and build the planning and enforcement tools every research and product team relies on.

As an Infrastructure Capacity Planner on the Demand Planning team, you'll own the medium-range demand forecast for every resource class we consume: accelerators, CPU, storage, network, and managed services. Your forecast will support sourcing and purchasing, prioritization, efficiency targets, and workload optimization.

Key responsibilities

  • Build and own the medium-range multi-resource demand forecast: accelerators by chip/interconnect class, CPU by shape, storage by tier and access pattern, egress by path, managed services by SKU - driven by model roadmap, RL/inference growth, eval volume, and retention policy rather than trend lines.
  • Run the plan-vs-reality loop. Diff planned allocations against observed fleet occupancy weekly, surface unrecorded trades and stale allocations, and drive variance toward zero with our planning-tools and data teams.
  • Qualify each incoming capacity tranche against the forecast before signature: right shape, region, quarter, and supporting-resource envelope (storage, egress, CPU). 
  • Partner with Finance and cost-efficiency teams to turn the forecast into core drivers covering the large majority (80%) of non-accelerator spend, and to aim savings work where waste will appear next.

What you bring

  • Have done capacity, demand, or supply planning for large-scale technical infrastructure (cloud, HPC, hyperscale, or a large internal platform) and can articulate the difference between a forecast, a plan, and an allocation.
  • Build the model yourself rather than specifying it for someone else: SQL against a warehouse, Python/pandas or a proper forecasting/optimization stack.
  • Understand data-center resource classes well to know why storage and egress don't forecast like GPUs, and why a contract's headline chip count is rarely the binding constraint.
  • Prefer simple, inspectable models to clever opaque ones, and instrument your own forecast error.

Preferred qualifications

  • Direct experience with cloud or neocloud providers on reserved-capacity onboarding, private offers, or capacity commitments.
  • Demand planning or forecasting experience for accelerator fleets, including translating research or product roadmaps into resource requirements.
  • Data center or colocation delivery experience: power and space planning, network turn-up, site acceptance criteria, and vendor management.
  • Experience with accelerator health and burn-in, collective-communications sanity testing, or fleet-health SLOs, and the ability to define healthy rigorously.
  • Experience building lifecycle or state-machine services, or systems of record for infrastructure assets.
  • Experience onboarding a new hardware generation into an existing scheduler and observability stack.

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