About this role
About Anthropic
Anthropic’s 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
The Safeguards team is responsible for ensuring our models and products are developed and deployed safely. We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Systems team, which builds the real-time infrastructure that classifies the tokens Claude produces and determines whether they are safe to send to users.
This is a foundational role. You'll own the infrastructure that encodes high-stakes decisions about which classifiers to run, where, how, and what to do with their results. These decisions need to be correct, made within milliseconds, available at very high nines, and cost-effective. You will be responsible for some of the most critical infrastructure at Anthropic.
You'll partner closely with other Safeguards teams, core infrastructure, and product teams to ensure our enforcement systems are fast, available, correct, and cost-efficient, and that they keep pace with increasingly complex safeguard requirements.
Key responsibilities
• Lead, grow, and develop a team of engineers building critical real-time infrastructure
• Define the vision and roadmap for our systems, including upcoming functionality, robustness, and operational maturity
• Drive the team's strategy for scaling through operational maturity, platform building, automation, and safely using Claude to accelerate all of it
• Partner with Safeguards and core infrastructure teams to translate requirements into a coherent design and action plan
• Create clarity for the team and stakeholders in an ambiguous and evolving environment
• Take an inclusive, equitable approach to hiring and coaching engineers, and maintain a high-performing team
• Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Anthropic's engineering management community
Minimum qualifications
• Experience managing software engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, and developing engineers
• A technical background in high-availability distributed systems, with the ability to engage deeply in architecture and design discussions
• Experience shipping large-scale systems and driving safe changes while maintaining a high operational bar
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain technical tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders
• Care about the societal impacts of AI and want your work to make powerful systems safer
Preferred qualifications
• 4+ years of management experience and 10+ years of industry software engineering experience
• Experience building large-scale, high-availability systems, ideally in a Trust and Safety context
• Experience designing systems under strict privacy, compliance, or data governance cons