Engineering Manager, Research Productivity

About the role

Anthropic’s Research Tools team builds systems that support large-scale, distributed finetuning runs and improve researcher productivity. As a manager, you’ll support a team of machine learning and distributed systems experts, focusing on making these systems and tools highly efficient, enabling fast iteration on model development and research, and continuously evolving the infrastructure to incorporate new research advances. Our Research Tooling intersects with nearly every technical group at Anthropic, collaborating with research teams, product teams, and infrastructure teams.

Responsibilities

• Prioritize the team’s work in collaboration with the technical lead, research teams, and product teams to support fast iteration on research projects and training runs.
• Design processes (e.g., postmortem review, incident response, on-call rotations) that help the team operate effectively.
• Coach and support your reports to understand and pursue their professional growth.
• Run the team’s recruiting efforts efficiently, ensuring we can grow as quickly as needed through a period of rapid growth.

Qualifications

• Believe that advanced AI systems could have a transformative effect on the world and are interested in helping make sure that transformation goes well.
• Be an experienced manager (at least 2 years) and actively enjoy people management.
• Be a quick study: this team sits at the intersection of a large number of different complex technical systems that you’ll need to understand (at a high level) to be effective.
• Strong Candidates May Also Have:
• Experience working with research teams, especially as part of a “research to production” pipeline.
• Strong people management experience: Coaching, performance evaluation, mentorship, career development.
• Strong project management skills: Prioritization, communicating across team/org boundaries.
• Experience recruiting for your team: Predicting staffing needs, designing interview loops, evaluating candidates, and closing them.

Benefits

Annual compensation range for this role is $405,000—$850,000 USD. Anthropic offers 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 about our policy for using AI in our application process.