Engineering Manager: Scheduler & Fleet Efficiency

EngineersOfAI; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Scheduler team responsible for scheduling and fleet efficiency across Anthropic's compute resources. You will guide a team building infrastructure used by researchers and engineers to launch and manage their jobs, while collaborating with capacity planning, research, and product teams to optimize workloads and system performance.

The role emphasizes leadership, platform reliability, and developing an inclusive, high-performing team in a

Qualifications

• Experience leading software or platform teams delivering distributed systems.
• Hands-on software engineering background prior to moving into management.
• Strong written and verbal communication; ability to align multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow Anthropic's Scheduler team and related tooling.
• Set technical direction for scheduling, placement, and resource management across the compute fleet.
• Collaborate with capacity planning, research, and product teams to optimize workload placement.
• Drive roadmap for scheduler capabilities and developer experience of launching jobs.
• Define metrics to measure fleet efficiency and scheduling quality.

Skills

Team leadership

Software engineering

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Communication

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Anthropic is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Scheduler team responsible for scheduling and fleet efficiency across Anthropic's compute resources. You will guide a team building infrastructure used by researchers and engineers to launch and manage their jobs, while collaborating with capacity planning, research, and product teams to optimize workloads and system performance.

The role emphasizes leadership, platform reliability, and developing an inclusive, high-performing team in a