Engineering Manager, Safeguards Review Tooling

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

Job summary

Anthropic in San Francisco is seeking an Engineering Manager for their Safeguards team to lead the Review Tooling team. This role focuses on developing systems that manage investigations and enforcement actions, essential for maintaining user trust.

The ideal candidate will have experience managing engineering teams, facilitating cross-functional collaboration, and a strong awareness of AI's societal impacts. An excellent opportunity to contribute to safety in AI systems within a growing company.

Qualifications

• Experience managing software engineering teams, including hiring and coaching.
• Technical background in full-stack or platform engineering.
• Experience shipping internal tools for demanding operational users.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of engineers building investigation and review tooling.
• Define the vision for review tooling platform including analytics.
• Drive strategy for scaling review through automation and Claude integration.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders for system design.

Skills

Software engineering team management

Full-stack engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

Excellent communication

Societal impact awareness of AI

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

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 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 our Review Tooling team, which builds the systems that humans — and increasingly Claude — use to investigate potential harms and take enforcement actions across Anthropic's first‑party products and third‑party cloud platforms. This is a foundational role: you'll own the tools our safety investigators rely on to understand what's happening on our platforms and act on it, as well as the platform underneath those tools. That platform includes analytics capabilities, privacy‑preserving primitives that keep review workflows compatible with our data retention commitments, and a sandbox environment where new review interfaces and workflows can be built and iterated quickly. As model capabilities and usage grow, you'll also drive how we scale review through automation — building systems where Claude meaningfully extends what human reviewers can do, while keeping people in the loop where their judgment matters most. You'll partner closely with policy, operations, data science, and legal teams to ensure our enforcement systems are effective, accurate, and trustworthy.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, grow, and develop a team of engineers building investigation, review, and enforcement tooling for both first‑party and third‑party platform surfaces.
• Define the vision and roadmap for our review tooling platform, including analytics, privacy‑compatible data access primitives, and a sandbox for rapidly developing new review interfaces.
• Drive the team's strategy for scaling review through automation, including enabling reviewers to use Claude effectively and building toward Claude‑assisted and Claude‑driven review workflows.
• Partner with policy, operations, legal, privacy, and data science stakeholders to translate enforcement and investigation needs into reliable, well‑designed systems.
• Ensure review tooling evolves alongside new privacy primitives and data retention commitments so reviewers can do their work without compromising user trust.
• Create clarity for the team and stakeholders in an ambiguous and evolving environment.
• Take an inclusive, equitable approach to hiring and coaching top technical talent, and maintain a high‑performing team.
• Contribute to engineering‑wide initiatives as a member of Anthropic's engineering management community.

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience managing software engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, and developing engineers.
• A technical background in full‑stack or platform engineering, with the ability to engage deeply in architecture and design discussions.
• Experience shipping internal tools or platforms with demanding operational users, and a track record of improving their workflows measurably.
• Experience working cross‑functionally with non‑engineering partners such as operations, policy, or legal teams.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain technical tradeoffs to non‑technical stakeholders.
• Care about the societal impacts of AI and want your work to make powerful systems safer.

Preferred Qualifications

• 4+ years of management experience, 10+ years of industry software engineering experience.
• Experience building trust and safety, integrity, fraud, or abuse‑prevention tooling, or other systems supporting human review at scale.
• Experience designing systems under strict privacy, compliance, or data governance constraints, such as zero data retention environments.
• Experience integrating LLMs or agentic systems into operational workflows, or building human‑in‑the‑loop automation.
• Experience building developer platforms or extensible tooling frameworks that other teams build on top of.
• Experience supporting enforcement or moderation systems across multiple product surfaces, including enterprise or cloud platform contexts.

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.