Engineering Manager, Search Platform & Scale

Neura Market; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 320,000 - 405,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic, a San Francisco-based AI safety company, is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Search Platform team. This role leads indexing, retrieval, ranking and serving for Claude and related surfaces, with a hands-on approach when needed.

You will partner with product, research, and infrastructure teams to shape the platform strategy, ensure high-quality search, and drive scalable, cost-efficient systems in production.

Qualifications

• Significant experience managing engineering teams, including hiring and growing a team through rapid change.
• Direct experience building or operating search systems at scale: indexing, retrieval, ranking or query serving.
• Enough technical depth to be hands-on when needed; you can review designs, read code and engage credibly with senior ICs.
• A product mindset and comfort making product calls when there isn't a PM in the room.
• A track record of running high-scale, latency-sensitive production systems with real reliability requirements.
• Strong cross-functional skills; you can align product, research and infrastructure partners with different priorities.
• Experience recruiting and closing senior engineers.
• Interest in AI safety and Anthropic's mission

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the team of engineers building Anthropic's search platform: indexing, retrieval, ranking and serving
• Own the strategy and roadmap for the platform and how Claude's search needs are met over time
• Own search quality: evaluation methodology, relevance measurement, regression detection and the ranking improvements they drive
• Operate the platform at scale, balancing product traffic against research and training demand while holding a high bar on reliability, latency and cost
• Wear the product hat when the work calls for it: prioritize what the search experience needs, sequence launches and represent search in product discussions
• Drive cross-team collaboration with product, research and infrastructure partners; articulate dependencies, risks and progress clearly
• Be hands-on where it matters: design reviews, incident follow-ups and the occasional deep dive into why relevance moved
• Recruit, close and retain strong engineers in a competitive market

Skills

Engineering leadership

Search systems

Technical depth

Cross-functional alignment

Hiring & staffing

AI safety focus

Education

Bachelors degree or equivalent

Job description

Anthropic, a San Francisco-based AI safety company, is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Search Platform team. This role leads indexing, retrieval, ranking and serving for Claude and related surfaces, with a hands-on approach when needed.

You will partner with product, research, and infrastructure teams to shape the platform strategy, ensure high-quality search, and drive scalable, cost-efficient systems in production.