Engineering Manager, UI Platform

About Anthropic

Anthropics mission is to create reliable interpretable and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers engineers policy experts and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the role

is Anthropics flagship consumer product spanning web mobile desktop and browser extensionsand its growing fast. Were looking for an engineering leader to own the foundational platform that powers all of these surfaces: the shared infrastructure APIs tooling and systems that enable product teams to ship reliably quickly and with confidence.

In this role youll lead the team responsible for reliability latency developer velocity and common components across UI surfaces. This includes the backend-for-frontend (BFF) APIs that power our client applications. Your work will directly determine how fast customer partner and product teams can innovateand how stable their experiences are when they ship. This is a highly technical leadership role: youll stay close to the code drive architectural decisions and build the systems that let others move faster.

This is a unique opportunity to shape the developer experience and platform foundations for one of the most rapidly evolving AI products in the world. Youll partner closely with product engineering teams infrastructure and leadership to ensure scales gracefully as we grow.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the UI Platform team setting technical direction for reliability performance and developer experience across all surfaces

• Own the foundational systems that product teams depend on: shared components BFF APIs build and deploy pipelines observability and performance infrastructure

• Design and evolve the API layer that powers client applications ensuring clean abstractions and reliable contracts for product teams

• Drive improvements to developer velocityreducing friction improving tooling and enabling teams to ship features faster and more safely

• Establish and maintain high standards for latency reliability and quality across the platform

• Partner closely with product engineering infrastructure and leadership to align platform investments with product priorities

• Create clarity and direction in a fast-moving ambiguous environment where priorities shift as evolves

• Build a culture of technical excellence collaboration and continuous improvement within your team

You may be a good fit if you

• Have 10 years of software engineering experience with significant time spent building platforms developer tools or infrastructure for consumer-facing products

• Have 5 years of engineering leadership experience including managing and growing teams in high-growth environments

• Have deep expertise in modern web development stacks (React TypeScript) and experience designing APIs that serve frontend applications

• Are passionate about developer experience and have a track record of building tools and systems that make other engineers more productive

• Have strong opinions on reliability observability and performanceand know how to operationalize those opinions at scale

• Can balance technical depth with strategic thinking staying hands-on while also setting long-term direction

• Thrive in ambiguity and can create structure and clarity for your team when the path forward isnt obvious

• Communicate effectively across functions and can build alignment with product design and infrastructure partners

Strong candidates may also have experience with

• Building and scaling platforms for multiple surfaces (web mobile desktop extensions) with shared infrastructure

• Designing BFF architectures and API patterns that balance flexibility with consistency

• Performance optimization and latency reduction in consumer-facing applications

• CI/CD build systems and deployment automation at scale

• Observability and monitoring systems (metrics logging tracing)

• Working on AI/ML products or in rapidly evolving product environments

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship:We do sponsor visas! However we arent able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if youre interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones were building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

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How were different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact advancing our long-term goals of steerable trustworthy AI rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. Were an extremely collaborative group and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic including: GPT-3 Circuit-Based Interpretability Multimodal Neurons Scaling Laws AI & Compute Concrete Problems in AI Safety and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits optional equity donation matching generous vacation and parental leave flexible working hours and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates AI Usage:Learn aboutour policyfor using AI in our application process