[DH] Engineering Manager, AI Observability

EngineersOfAI; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of researchers and software engineers focused on scalable AI monitoring and data analysis. You will oversee systems that process large-scale, unstructured data and produce trustworthy insights, spanning core frameworks to user-facing interfaces.

The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration with researchers and safety teams, strong UX and reliability standards, and a strategic approach to building and prioritizing new capabilities

Qualifications

• Experience leading teams of researchers and engineers.
• Strong background in software engineering for ML workflows.
• Exposure to large-scale data processing and model evaluation.
• Familiarity with LLM-powered applications and orchestration.
• Commitment to UX, reliability, and solid documentation.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of AI monitoring and data processing systems.
• Scale core frameworks for processing vast unstructured text datasets.
• Partner with researchers and safety teams to align on analytical needs.
• Develop agentic integrations enabling autonomous investigations of findings.
• Shape team strategy, prioritization, and investments in tooling and processes.
• Coach reports on career growth and performance; drive recruitment.

Skills

People management

Software engineering

ML systems

LLM application development

UX & reliability

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the Team

As AI training and deployments scale, the volume of data we need to monitor and understand is exploding. Our team uses Claude itself to make sense of this data. We own an integrated set of tools enabling Anthropic to ask open-ended questions, surface unexpected patterns, and maintain meaningful human oversight over massive datasets.

Our tools are widely adopted internally — powering ongoing enforcement, threat intelligence investigations, model audits, and more — and we're looking for an experienced engineering manager to help us both scale up existing applications and go zero-to-one on new ones.

About the Role

As an Engineering Manager for the team, you'll lead research engineers who design and build systems that let AI analyze large, unstructured datasets — think tens or hundreds of thousands of conversations or documents — and produce structured, trustworthy insights.

The team works across the full stack, from core analysis frameworks through user-facing apps and interfaces.

This is a high-leverage role. The tools you build will be used by dozens of researchers and investigators, and directly shape our ability to measure and mitigate both misuse and misalignment.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and implementation of AI-based monitoring systems for AI training and deployment
• Extend and improve core frameworks for processing large volumes of unstructured text
• Partner with researchers and safety teams across Anthropic to understand their analytical needs, and prioritize the team's work to build solutions
• Develop agentic integrations that allow AI systems to autonomously investigate and act on analytical findings
• Contribute to the strategic direction of the team, including decisions about what to build, what to partner on, and where to invest
• Coach and support your reports to understand and pursue their professional growth
• Run the team's recruiting efforts, ensuring we can grow as quickly as we need
• Design processes that help the team operate effectively

You May Be a Good Fit If You:

• Are an experienced manager (at least 2 years) and actively enjoy people management
• Have 5+ years of software engineering experience, with meaningful exposure to ML systems
• Are excited about the problem of scaling human oversight of AI systems
• Are familiar with LLM application development (context engineering, evaluation, orchestration)
• Enjoy building tools that other people use — you care about UX, reliability, and documentation
• Can context-switch between deep infrastructure work and user-facing product thinking
• Thrive in collaborative, cross-functional environments

Strong Candidates May Also Have:

• Research experience in AI safety, alignment, or responsible deployment
• Strong people management experience: coaching, performance evaluation, mentorship, career development
• Experience recruiting for your team: predicting staffing needs, designing interview loops, evaluating candidates, and closing them
• Practical experience with both data science an