Engineering Manager, Search Platform & Scale

Anthropic; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 320,000 - 405,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office space in San Francisco

Equity donation matching (optional)

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Search Platform team. This role will steer indexing, retrieval, ranking and serving for Claude across claude.ai, API, and agentic surfaces. You will partner with product, research, and infrastructure teams to ensure a high-quality search experience at scale.

The role blends people leadership with hands-on review of designs and relevance improvements, plus cross-functional collaboration in a fast-growing AI safety-focused environment.

Qualifications

• Significant experience managing engineering teams 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 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.
• Track record of running high-scale, latency-sensitive production systems with reliability requirements.
• Strong cross-functional skills aligning product, research and infrastructure partners.
• 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 improvements.
• Operate the platform at scale, balancing product traffic against research and training demand with a high bar on reliability, latency and cost.
• Wear the product hat when needed: prioritize search experience needs and sequence launches.

Skills

People management

Search systems

Hands-on review

Product mindset

Cross-functional collaboration

Recruiting senior engineers

AI safety interest

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Anthropic is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Search Platform team. This role will steer indexing, retrieval, ranking and serving for Claude across claude.ai, API, and agentic surfaces. You will partner with product, research, and infrastructure teams to ensure a high-quality search experience at scale.

The role blends people leadership with hands-on review of designs and relevance improvements, plus cross-functional collaboration in a fast-growing AI safety-focused environment.