Description
Anthropic is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Search Platform team. This team builds the search stack behind Claude: the indexes, retrieval and ranking systems and serving infrastructure that power web search across claude.ai, the API and agentic surfaces.
The role carries a product dimension. Search sits close to the user experience and PM coverage is thin at times, so often the EM helps decide what a good search experience looks like, not just how to build it. You'll partner with product teams shipping search-backed features, research teams that depend on retrieval quality and capacity, and the infrastructure teams that run the systems underneath.
Key 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
Minimum 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
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with the economics of search: index freshness, storage and serving costs, quality vs cost tradeoffs
- Background in embeddings, ranking models or ML-based retrieval
- Experience migrating traffic off a vendor onto in-house infrastructure
- Exposure to LLM products and the retrieval demands of large-scale training and inference
The annual compensation range for this role is $320,000-$405,000 USD.