Technical Program Manager, Compute

About the role

The Technical Program Manager (TPM) on the Compute team will oversee the planning, coordination, and execution of programs that support efficient operation of Anthropic's compute infrastructure. The team focuses on ensuring that the compute fleet, crucial for model training, evaluation, and inference, operates smoothly at scale.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive critical programs across the compute lifecycle, coordinating execution across multiple engineering, research, and operations teams
• Build and maintain operational visibility into the compute fleet, ensuring the organization has a clear picture of supply, demand, utilization, and health
• Lead cross-functional coordination for compute transitions: bringing new capacity online, migrating workloads, and managing decommissions across cloud providers and hardware platforms
• Partner with engineering and research leadership to navigate competing priorities and drive alignment on how compute resources are planned, allocated, and used
• Identify and close operational gaps across the compute pipeline, whether through new tooling, improved processes, or better cross-team communication
• Own trade-off discussions between utilization, cost, latency, and reliability, synthesizing inputs from technical and business stakeholders and communicating decisions to leadership
• Develop and improve the processes and frameworks the team uses to plan, track, and execute compute programs at increasing scale and complexity

Qualifications

• 7+ years of technical program management experience in infrastructure, platform engineering, or compute-intensive environments
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional programs involving multiple engineering teams with competing priorities and ambiguous requirements
• Experience working with research or ML teams and translating their needs into operational plans and technical requirements
• Comfortable diving deep into technical details (cloud infrastructure, cluster management, job scheduling, resource orchestration) while maintaining program-level visibility
• Ability to thrive in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where you need to define scope and build processes from the ground up
• Strong communication skills and ability to engage credibly with engineers, researchers, finance, and executive leadership
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a field relevant to the role