Engineering Manager, Safeguards & Interventions

Anthropic; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 405,000 - 485,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking an Engineering Manager for Safeguards Interventions to lead the Interventions team responsible for what happens when a safety system fires across all Anthropic surfaces. You will own the roadmap, drive cross‑functional work with ML Infra, Research, Product, Policy, and Legal, and set the bar for safe, scalable interventions backed by data.

You should have a track record of leading engineering teams shipping production ML or safety‑enforcement systems, with comfort handling

Qualifications

• Hands-on lead and grow a team of engineers; own roadmap, OKRs, and execution.
• Drive cross-functional work with ML Infra, Research, Product, Policy, and Legal – and with cloud partners for 3P deployment.
• Set the bar for when an intervention is good enough to ship – backed by measurement – and represent safety and product tradeoffs to leadership and external stakeholders.
• Own production reliability for intervention and compliance systems: incident response, postmortems, SLOs, and the verification processes that prevent repeat incidents.
• Have managed engineering teams shipping production ML or safety‑enforcement systems where the system’s decisions directly affected users.

Responsibilities

• Lead and scale the Interventions team to deliver safe, reliable interventions.
• Collaborate with ML Infra, Research, Product, Policy, and Legal to align safety with product goals.
• Define measurement standards and governance for safety interventions and shipping decisions.
• Ensure reliability and incident handling for safety-related production systems.
• Communicate tradeoffs and outcomes to leadership and external stakeholders.

Skills

Team leadership

Safety systems

Cross-cloud experience

Stakeholder management

Job description

Anthropic is seeking an Engineering Manager for Safeguards Interventions to lead the Interventions team responsible for what happens when a safety system fires across all Anthropic surfaces. You will own the roadmap, drive cross‑functional work with ML Infra, Research, Product, Policy, and Legal, and set the bar for safe, scalable interventions backed by data.

You should have a track record of leading engineering teams shipping production ML or safety‑enforcement systems, with comfort handling