Technical Program Manager, Research

About the role

Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The company aims to ensure AI is safe and beneficial for its users and society. The team comprises researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders focused on developing beneficial AI systems.

Responsibilities

• Embed deeply within a research domain to understand the technical landscape, build trust with researchers and technical leaders, and identify the highest-leverage problems to solve, knowing the surface area will shift over time as research priorities evolve
• Move fluidly across research areas like compute, evals, RL environments, and emerging research initiatives, picking up new domains quickly and getting to depth fast
• Drive end-to-end execution of complex, ambiguous research initiatives spanning multiple teams, often without established playbooks or precedent
• Establish processes and frameworks that bring structure to unstructured research environments without slowing researchers down
• Lead efforts like large-scale compute resource planning, including allocation, efficiency, and prioritization across research and production workstreams
• Drive eval readiness for model launches by standardizing results, shaping eval plans early, improving tooling, and ensuring honest, transparent reporting across research, product, and marketing
• Own execution and operational health of RL environments across major training runs, coordinating cross-team trade-offs and feeding insights back into roadmap planning
• Equip research leadership to make decisions quickly by going deep on technical tradeoffs and presenting clear, actionable recommendations
• Act as the connective tissue between research, engineering, and product teams to reduce chaos and accelerate execution

Qualifications

• Background in ML research or engineering with several years of experience building technical programs from scratch, ideally with hands-on exposure to training, evaluation, or large-scale distributed systems
• Fast learner who can ramp on unfamiliar technical domains quickly and contribute meaningfully to discussions with researchers
• Resourceful, high-agency, and able to navigate ambiguity and shifting priorities to drive progress in fast-moving research environments
• Experience with operational ownership of complex technical systems, including monitoring, incident response, and performance optimization
• Ability to reason about technical tradeoffs at depth across model architecture, training infrastructure, evals, or compute efficiency, and translate them into clear decisions for leadership
• Excellent stakeholder management skill and the ability to influence senior technical staff through competence and consistent delivery
• Comfortable with high-stakes environments where decisions impact compute spend, model training timelines, and launch outcomes
• Passionate about the potential impact of AI and committed to developing safe and beneficial systems
• Excited to redefine what technical program management looks like at the frontier of AI research

Benefits

The annual compensation range for this role is $365,000 - $435,000 USD.

Logistics

• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
• Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
• Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
• Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

How we're different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. We value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

Our research directions

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

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To apply, visit anthropic.com/careers.