# Engineering Manager, Labs

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $1 - $2 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116758847

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## Description

Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that benefit humanity.

We're seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and grow our team of software engineers working on early-stage AI capabilities in Anthropic Labs, our internal accelerator.

## Responsibilities

- Lead and coach a high-performing team of software engineers through the complexities of zero-to-one development, creating an environment that rewards experimentation and learning over attachment to specific outcomes.

- Hire and develop a team of versatile, entrepreneurial engineers who thrive in ambiguity and can flex across problem spaces.

- Partner effectively with design, product, and research leaders to align on direction and execution.

- Create a balanced environment that encourages both creative exploration and rigorous evaluation of what's working.

- Help teams develop structured approaches to testing hypotheses, making kill decisions, and extracting learnings from both successes and failures.

- Facilitate effective collaboration between Labs engineers and research teams across Anthropic.

- Provide clear, actionable feedback and support engineer growth and development in an environment where projects shift frequently.

- Drive adoption of Labs' prototypes and learnings to inform company-wide product strategy.

- Represent the Labs perspective and roadmap in discussions with research, product, and leadership stakeholders.

- Maintain team stability and morale through the inherent uncertainty of early-stage work.

## You may be a good fit if you

- Have 5+ years of engineering management experience, with significant time leading teams in ambiguous, early-stage, or zero-to-one environments.

- Have a strong technical background as an IC prior to moving into management, ideally including startup or founding engineer experience.

- Excel at creating psychological safety and helping teams navigate uncertainty without burning out.

- Are skilled at facilitating decision-making rather than imposing solutions,you help your team develop good judgment.

- Can model the behaviors you want to see: comfort killing projects, strong opinions loosely held, bias toward action.

- Have experience building and retaining teams of generalists who can adapt as priorities shift.

- Demonstrate exceptional interpersonal intelligence and can guide teams through rapid pivots while maintaining trust.

- Have strong strategic thinking to identify high-potential research breakthroughs and viable paths to productization.

- Communicate effectively and can tell the story of Labs' work and impact to leadership and the broader company.

- Have a comprehensive technical understanding across full-stack engineering and modern product development, with familiarity in AI/ML concepts.

- Care deeply about responsibly pushing the boundaries of AI capabilities in service of Anthropic's mission.

## Benefits

- Competitive compensation and benefits

- Optional equity donation matching

- Generous vacation and parental leave

- Flexible working hours

- Lovely office space

## Skills

### Required
- engineering management
- software engineering
- AI/ML
- product development
- leadership

### Nice to have
- AI/ML products
- large language models
- R&D-adjacent environments
- organisational change management

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