Head of Product Engineering, Anthropic
$450-550k
+ Equity
More information about location
AI safety and research company
Open for applications
AI safety and research company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$450-550k
+ Equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Role
Who you are
- 9+ years of experience as an engineering leader, including experience as a VP or equivalent role, overseeing user-facing product engineering and platform/infrastructure engineering organizations
- A proven track record of scaling and shaping large (100+) engineering organizations
- The ability to operate at both a strategic level and dive into technical details when necessary
- Experience managing and developing engineering directors, managers, and senior ICs
- Strong technical acumen and the ability to guide architectural decisions
- Excellent communication skills, a commitment to transparency, and the ability to be a public-facing representative for Anthropic's engineering efforts
- A deep alignment with Anthropic's mission and a passion for ethical AI development
- Experience working in fast-paced, high-growth environments
- Proven investment in taking an inclusive, equitable approach to hiring and team-building
- Demonstrated success in managing relationships with cross-functional stakeholders, executives, and external partners
- The ability to balance long-term strategic thinking with day-to-day operational excellence
Desirable
- A background in building developer-facing products or APIs
- Knowledge of best practices in AI safety and ethical AI development
- Experience leading engineering teams in a research-heavy environment
- A track record of successful public speaking or technical writing
- Experience implementing engineering productivity tools and processes
- A history of contributing to open-source projects or fostering open-source communities
- Familiarity with the unique challenges of AI product development and deployment
What the job involves
- As the Head of Engineering at Anthropic, you will play a crucial role in shaping the future of our engineering organization and contributing to our mission of developing safe and ethical AI
- Reporting directly to the CPO, you will lead a rapidly growing team with plans to continue to expand in size over the coming year
- This role offers a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of AI development while balancing the challenges of maintaining high-velocity product delivery with our commitment to AI safety
- Recruit, manage, and develop senior engineering managers to oversee all product development initiatives
- Collaborate with senior Individual Contributors (ICs) and Engineering Managers (EMs) to establish and refine excellent engineering practices, from hiring to execution and iteration
- Serve as a public face for Anthropic's engineering brand, representing the company at industry events and in the tech community
- Collaborate with our cloud partners, Amazon and Google, to ensure Anthropic models are performant and available
- Oversee all of Anthropic's applications, APIs, and developer experiences
- Work closely with product management leads to ensure alignment between engineering and product goals
- Lead org-wide hiring efforts to support the team's growth while maintaining a high bar for talent
- Implement performance management processes to support the team's development and address any challenges
- Spearhead initiatives to adopt Claude to accelerate our own engineering team's productivity
- Balance Anthropic's mission of building safe AI with the need to maintain a high velocity of shipping products
- Contribute to the overall technical strategy of the company
- Meaningfully invest in a culture of belonging, equity, and impact
Our take
Funded by Google and founded by ex-OpenAI employees, Anthropic is an AI company focused on building a reliable, innovative AI system. While the company is relatively new to the market it has already launched a highly anticipated AI chat assistant called Claude which is set to rival OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Similar to other chatbots, Claude is accessible through a chat interface and can provide a number of conversation and text-processing tasks. A key point of differentiation is that Claude is designed to produce less harmful outputs than that of the other chatbots that came before it.
While there is much praise for the chat assistant, there is still room for improvement with feedback reporting that Claude is worse at maths and grammar compared to its rival. However, with industry giants like Google backing this company from an early stage, it is clear Anthropic has the potential to become a leading player within the AI industry.
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190% employee growth in 12 months
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Nov 2024
$4bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Jul 2024
$50m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $11.8bn
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
- Inclusive fertility benefits via Carrot Fertility
- Generous subsidy for OneMedical
- 21 weeks of paid parental leave
- Unlimited PTO
- Optional equity donation matching at a 3:1 ratio, up to 50% of your equity grant
- 401(k) plan with 4% matching
- $500/month flexible wellness stipend
- Commuter coverage
- Annual education stipend
- A home office improvement stipend when you first join
- Relocation support for those moving to the Bay Area
Company values
- Here for the mission: We pursue our mission by building frontier systems, studying their behaviors, working to responsibly deploy them, and regularly sharing our safety insights. We collaborate with other projects and stakeholders seeking a similar outcome.
- Unusually high trust: We assume good faith, disagree kindly, and prioritize honesty. We expect emotional maturity and intellectual openness. At its best, our trust enables us to make better decisions as an organization than any one of us could as individuals.
- Do the simple thing that works: We celebrate trying the simple thing before the clever, novel thing. We embrace pragmatism - sensible, practical approaches that acknowledge tradeoffs. We love empiricism - finding out what actually works by trying it - and apply this to our research, our engineering and our collaboration. We aim to be open about what we understand and what we don’t.
- One big team: Collaboration is central to our work, culture, and value proposition. While we have many teams at Anthropic, we feel the broader sense in which we are all on the same team working together towards the mission.
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Dario Amodei
(CEO & Co-Founder)Spent almost 5 years at OpenAI as a Team Lead for AI safety and as the Vice President of Research. Also worked as a Research Scientist at Google.
Jared Kaplan
(Chief Science Officer & Co-Founder)Has been a Professor at John Hopkins University for the past 10 years. Also an experienced researcher having worked previously at OpenAI and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
Jack Clark
(Co-Founder)Experienced reporter having worked previously at the Register and Bloomberg. Also worked for OpenAI in Strategy and Communications and as a Policy Director.
Sam McCandlish
(Co-Founder)Graduated from Stanford University with a PhD in Theoretical Physics. Previously worked as a Research Lead at OpenAI.
Tom Brown
(Co-Founder)Previously worked as a Member of the Technical Staff for both OpenAI and Google Brain.
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