Engineering Manager, Anthropic

Model Serving

$320-405k

Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

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1+ day a week in office

Anthropic

AI safety and research company

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Anthropic

AI safety and research company

101-200 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceDeep TechMachine LearningSaaS

Be an early applicant

$320-405k

Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

1+ day a week in office

101-200 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceDeep TechMachine LearningSaaS

Company mission

To create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Role

Who you are

  • 5+ years of engineering management experience leading high-performing teams to deliver business-critical products
  • Strong backend development background and deep experience operating customer-facing services at scale, with stringent uptime requirements
  • Proven track record partnering with customers and navigating enterprise/B2B environments
  • Excellent cross-functional leadership and communication skills to align engineering, product, research, and business teams
  • Passion for building innovative AI products in a fast-paced, customer-driven environment
  • Commitment to developing AI responsibly and safely

Desirable

  • Deep ML/AI engineering expertise, ideally with experience in large language models and finetuning techniques
  • Building and operating SaaS or PaaS offerings on public cloud infrastructure
  • Developing pricing models, SLAs, and operating agreements for AI/ML products
  • Managing relationships with strategic partners and enterprise customers
  • Expertise in large-scale capacity management and resource orchestration
  • Track record hiring and developing diverse engineering teams

What the job involves

  • We are seeking an experienced and highly technical Engineering Manager to lead our Model Serving engineering team, focused on external partnerships
  • The team's charter is to build scalable infrastructure to support the serving of Anthropic's world-class large language models on the world’s leading cloud service providers
  • The team collaborates closely with experts in Anthropic's research organization, product leaders, and external partners to ensure we deliver industry-leading functionality
  • The team also works closely with Anthropic's systems and core infrastructure teams to define best practices and supporting systems for delivering this unique service
  • Manage and grow a team of talented backend and infrastructure engineers to deliver on the External Technical Partnerships team charter and goals
  • Maintain deep technical involvement in the project, to help you drive the technical roadmap and execution to ship and expand capabilities, scale, and launch new LLMs. You should be comfortable operating in the codebase alongside the engineers on your team
  • Collaborate with product and research teams to define the feature set, API interfaces, and technical requirements for launching new models and features at ever faster latencies
  • Work closely with product management and external partners to design solutions that meet ever-evolving customer needs
  • Practice excellent communication and upward/outward management to establish high-functioning relationships with internal and external partners and keep your executive stakeholders informed
  • Establish engineering practices and operational excellence to power high-quality, scalable finetuning services
  • Develop capacity management solutions and business metric tracking to ensure the service scales efficiently
  • Hire, mentor, and grow a diverse team of top engineering talent
  • Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and customer focus

Our take

Funded by Google and founded by ex-OpenAI employees, Anthropic is an AI company focused on building a reliable, innovative AI system. While the company is relatively new to the market it has already launched a highly anticipated AI chat assistant called Claude which is set to rival OpenAI's ChatGPT.

Similar to other chatbots, Claude is accessible through a chat interface and can provide a number of conversation and text-processing tasks. A key point of differentiation is that Claude is designed to produce less harmful outputs than that of the other chatbots that came before it.

While there is much praise for the chat assistant, there is still room for improvement with feedback reporting that Claude is worse at maths and grammar compared to its rival. However, with industry giants like Google backing this company from an early stage, it is clear Anthropic has the potential to become a leading player within the AI industry.

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Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

190% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)

Jul 2024

$50m

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Feb 2024

$200m

LATE VC

Total funding: $7.8bn

Company benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
  • Inclusive fertility benefits via Carrot Fertility
  • Generous subsidy for OneMedical
  • 21 weeks of paid parental leave
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Optional equity donation matching at a 3:1 ratio, up to 50% of your equity grant
  • 401(k) plan with 4% matching
  • $500/month flexible wellness stipend
  • Commuter coverage
  • Annual education stipend
  • A home office improvement stipend when you first join
  • Relocation support for those moving to the Bay Area

Company values

  • Here for the mission: We pursue our mission by building frontier systems, studying their behaviors, working to responsibly deploy them, and regularly sharing our safety insights. We collaborate with other projects and stakeholders seeking a similar outcome.
  • Unusually high trust: We assume good faith, disagree kindly, and prioritize honesty. We expect emotional maturity and intellectual openness. At its best, our trust enables us to make better decisions as an organization than any one of us could as individuals.
  • Do the simple thing that works: We celebrate trying the simple thing before the clever, novel thing. We embrace pragmatism - sensible, practical approaches that acknowledge tradeoffs. We love empiricism - finding out what actually works by trying it - and apply this to our research, our engineering and our collaboration. We aim to be open about what we understand and what we don’t.
  • One big team: Collaboration is central to our work, culture, and value proposition. While we have many teams at Anthropic, we feel the broader sense in which we are all on the same team working together towards the mission.

Company HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

Founders

Dario Amodei

(CEO & Co-Founder)

Spent almost 5 years at OpenAI as a Team Lead for AI safety and as the Vice President of Research. Also worked as a Research Scientist at Google.

Jared Kaplan

(Co-Founder)

Has been a Professor at John Hopkins University for the past 10 years. Also an experienced researcher having worked previously at OpenAI and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

Jack Clark

(Co-Founder)

Experienced reporter having worked previously at the Register and Bloomberg. Also worked for OpenAI in Strategy and Communications and as a Policy Director.

Sam McCandlish

(Co-Founder)

Graduated from Stanford University with a PhD in Theoretical Physics. Previously worked as a Research Lead at OpenAI.

Tom Brown

(Co-Founder)

Previously worked as a Member of the Technical Staff for both OpenAI and Google Brain.

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