Technical Program Manager, 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

As a Technical Program Manager for Platform youll own the programs that stand up and operate Anthropics APIs and serving infrastructure across multiple cloud environments. This means driving deployments from scoping through production running the platform work that spans them and working across API Platform Foundations Security our cloud provider counterparts and whoever else is on the critical path when dependencies and tradeoffs pile up.

Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end program execution for Anthropics API across major cloud deployments from scoping through production launch and steady-state operations
• Drive the platform programs that cut across individual deployments: the shared foundations that get built once and reused not rebuilt per cloud.
• Act as a primary coordination point with cloud provider counterparts keeping engagement clean across multiple internal teams with touchpoints into the same partner
• Partner with engineering leadership to turn technical direction into executable plans with clear owners dependencies and risk tracking
• Build the program scaffolding (roadmaps status reporting decision logs escalation paths) that lets a fast-moving org stay aligned without slowing down
• Drive the hard sequencing conversations when partner commitments engineering bandwidth and priorities are in tension and surface them to leadership with a recommendation
• Identify where program coverage is thin relative to the load and help shape how we staff around it

You may be a good fit if you:

• Have 10 years of technical program management experience including ownership of large infrastructure or platform programs with many engineering teams and external partners in the mix
• Have deep technical fluency in cloud APIs infrastructure distributed systems or platform engineering enough to be a credible partner to senior engineers on architecture and sequencing not just a tracker of their decisions
• Have run programs spanning organizational boundaries where you had no direct authority over most of the people whose work you depended on and delivered anyway
• Have direct experience with multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments large-scale migrations or building platform abstraction layers
• Have worked with major cloud providers (AWS GCP Azure) or similar large technology partners and know how to keep those relationships productive when priorities diverge
• Are comfortable operating in ambiguity on the long arc while being ruthlessly concrete on what ships this quarter and who owns it
• Have a track record of making a program get cheaper to run the second and third time not just landing the first instance
• Thrive in environments where the plan you wrote last month needs rewriting without losing the thread on what matters

Strong candidates may also:

• Have experience with production serving infrastructure inference systems or ML platform work
• Have moved between senior IC and management roles or have interest in doing so
• Have worked at a company rebuilding systems and org in flight during rapid scale-up

Deadline to Apply: None applications will be received on a rolling basis.

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelors degree or an equivalent combination of education training and/or experience

Required field of study:A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework training or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

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