Engineering Manager, Safeguards Interventions

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

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Interventions team within the Safeguards group. You will own the roadmap, drive cross‑functional work, and shape when an intervention is ready to ship across 1P products, API, and third‑party clouds.

You will manage production reliability, incident response, and verification processes while aligning safety and product tradeoffs with leadership and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Managed engineering teams shipping production ML or safety-enforcement systems.
• Ran high-stakes, compliance-adjacent production systems with on-call/incidents.
• Built evals to prove system effectiveness and kill ineffective features.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Roadmap ownership

OKRs execution

Cross-functional collaboration

Production reliability

Safety measurement

Job description

About The Role

The Safeguards team is responsible for ensuring our models and products are developed and deployed safely. We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Interventions team: the group responsible for what happens when a safety system fires. It owns the composable arsenal of systems that sit between our detection stack (classifiers and probes) and the user, across every Anthropic surface: 1P products, the API, and third‑party clouds. This includes inline interventions for areas like bio, cyber, and acceptable usage as well as downstream areas like child safety and copyright. This team is responsible for ensuring that we evolve and drive the quality of our interventions to enable our products to grow safely.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

Minimum Qualifications

• Have managed engineering teams shipping production ML or safety‑enforcement systems where the system’s decisions directly affected users.
• Have run high‑stakes, compliance‑adjacent production systems: comfortable with on‑call, incidents, regulator‑driven requirements, and building the process scaffolding that prevents recurrence.
• Care about measurement: you’ve built (or insisted on) the evals that prove a system does what it claims, and you’ve killed things that didn’t.
• Can drive ambiguous, multi‑stakeholder tradeoffs (safety vs UX vs latency vs cost) to a decision and own the outcome.
• Care deeply about AI safety and want your team’s work to be the reason advanced models can be deployed at all.

Preferred Qualifications

• Have worked in trust & safety, integrity, or abuse‑prevention engineering at scale.
• Experience with compliance‑driven systems (child safety, copyright, age assurance) and the legal/policy interfaces they require.
• Have shipped systems across multiple cloud providers and understand the parity/verification problems that creates.

Annual Salary

$405,000 — $485,000 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.