Engineering Manager, Anthropic

• Have 3+ years of engineering management experience leading high-performing teams in ambiguous, early-stage environments
• Excel at creating psychological safety and helping teams navigate uncertainty
• Demonstrate strong interpersonal skills and ability to guide teams through rapidly evolving organization priorities while building underlying stable platforms
• Have excellent cross-functional leadership skills to build alignment between research, engineering and product
• Are skilled at facilitating decision-making rather than imposing solutions
• Have expertise in mentoring and investing energy into team culture
• Have excellent communication skills to represent the importance of and need to invest in platform capabilities at the core of our products
• Have a comprehensive technical understanding of modern software product development processes and technical stacks. Experience of AI/ML is a bonus
• Care deeply about responsibly pushing the boundaries of AI capabilities in service of Anthropic's mission

Desirable

• We are looking for Engineering Managers to join our Product Foundations org to lead and grow teams of software engineers working on foundational platform capabilities
• You'll be responsible for defining and executing the creation of shared product capabilities at the core of Anthropic's product surfaces, while maintaining clear direction and stability for your team
• You'll partner closely with product managers, engineering leadership, talented engineers and research teams to transform emerging AI capabilities into platform capabilities
• Success in this role requires a strong ability to understand stakeholder needs, identify opportunities to share capabilities across products, understand our product and roadmap deeply, and the ability to facilitate rapid iterations to improve our product suite
• We have multiple teams that are currently hiring
• Team placement occurs after the interview process, taking into account your interests and experience alongside organizational needs:
• Product Platform: We provide shared product capabilities leveraged by Claude.ai, API and other internal teams
• You'll lead engineers working on core platform components like rate limiting, LLM sampling and multimodal processing
• This team is based in Seattle
• Accounts Platform: We build and maintain critical infrastructure that powers identity and authentication across Anthropic's product suite
• You'll lead cross-functional platform efforts supporting authentication, identity management, OAuth, Enterprise SSO/SCIM, and key management across Claude.ai, Claude Code, and API users
• This team is based in New York
• Product Foundations serves as an internal capabilities team building product infrastructure, shared components and focusing significant energy on cross functional efforts including reliability, latency and efficiency
• Our mandate is to build and maintain the foundational platforms, infrastructure and abstractions that enable Anthropic's products to operate securely, reliably, and efficiently at scale while accelerating product development across the organization
• We embed with product engineering teams to provide platform perspective, build shared mvp capabilities, and align to a shared vision for success
• Lead and coach a high-performing team of software engineers through the complexities of 0-1 platform development
• Partner effectively with engineering and product leaders to align on direction and execution
• Create a balanced environment that encourages both iterative improvement and rigorous evaluation
• Provide clear, actionable feedback and support for engineer growth and development
• Help partner teams develop approaches for sharing capabilities and partnering to evolve our platform alongside the sophistication of our products and users
• Drive adoption of platform capabilities and learnings to inform company-wide product strategy and planning
• Represent the platform perspective and roadmap in discussions with research, product, and leadership stakeholders

• Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis