Engineering Manager, Platform Foundations

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

We are looking for a to join our Platform org to lead and grow teams of software engineers working on the foundational building blocks that Anthropics product organization runs on.

This is product infrastructure at the highest scale. Our user base and performance demands are growing at an unprecedented rate and the teams mandate is to scale ahead of that demand: evolving our systems to meet customer growth running our stack across all three major cloud providers (AWS Azure and GCP) and unblocking the bottlenecks that enable our orgs development speed at the highest standard of quality.

Youll lead an organization of multiple teams and youll set the strategy and standard for performance reliability and output for product engineers. This is a company-critical charter: the output of this org largely determines how fast the entire product organization can move and how far we can scale. Youll define direction and partner with leaders across product research and infrastructure. Just as importantly youll grow the leaders under you developing managers and senior engineers so the orgs leadership bench deepens as it scales.

Responsibilities

• Lead a multi-team engineering organization through other managers and tech leads owning hiring the development of your leaders and a culture where strong people do their best work and stay
• Set the technical strategy and multi-year roadmap for product infrastructure: compute networking the systems serving our APIs and apps and the developer productivity tooling the whole product org runs on
• Bring clarity to a company-critical charter: defining direction sequencing the work and derisking large initiatives that span multiple teams
• Scale our infrastructure to meet rapidly growing customer demand while holding a high bar on reliability and cost efficiency
• Drive the operation of our stack across all three major cloud providers including complex multi-region and international deployments
• Raise development velocity across the entire product engineering org by finding and removing the bottlenecks that hold it back without trading away quality
• Partner deeply with product research and infrastructure leaders and make the architectural decisions that serve the whole organization
• Manage a broad set of senior stakeholders and keep executives and partner teams aligned as priorities shift
• Grow the next layer of engineering leadership by developing managers and senior ICs so the org can take on more

You may be a good fit if you

• Have 10 years of engineering experience with a deep track record of engineering leadership (8 years) including running a multi-team organization and managing managers at significant scale
• Have built and operated product infrastructure at very high scale with stringent reliability and efficiency requirements
• Have led complex multi-region or international infrastructure deployments
• Have led an organization through a period of major growth or transition for example taking systems and teams from early-stage to enterprise-grade while absorbing order-of-magnitude increases in demand
• Have both a startup environment and significant enterprise-scale company experience and know how to navigate the challenges that come with that scale
• Are an excellent developer of leaders with a strong record recruiting scaling and retaining engineering talent while growing managers and senior ICs
• Manage senior stakeholders well. You communicate clearly build trust across functions and keep executive partners aligned through ambiguity
• Have a strong technical background to set architectural direction and make sound decisions across a broad infrastructure surface
• Care deeply about Anthropics mission and about developing AI responsibly and safely

Strong candidates may also have experience with

• Deploying and operating production infrastructure multi-cloud across the major cloud providers (AWS Azure GCP)
• Developer productivity and developer experience at scale: the tooling CI/CD and workflows that entire engineering organizations depend on
• Cloud-native architecture containerization (e.g. Kubernetes) and large-scale capacity management
• Operating infrastructure in regulated environments or under data-residency and sovereignty requirements
• Building or operating infrastructure that serves AI and LLM products

Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed 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 policy for using AI in our application process.