Engineering Manager, Research Productivity

About the role

Anthropic’s Research Tools team builds systems that support large-scale, distributed finetuning runs and enhance researcher productivity. As a manager, you'll support a team of machine learning and distributed systems experts in making these systems highly efficient, enabling fast iteration on model development and research, and continuously evolving the infrastructure to incorporate new research advances. Your team works closely with research teams, product teams, and infrastructure teams to ensure the production pipeline is as efficient as possible.

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

• 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.