# Engineering Manager, Search **Company**: Anthropic **Location**: San Francisco, CA **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $320,000-$405,000 USD **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116758847 **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5371065008?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_3105a527-5bb ## 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. ## Skills ### Required - search systems - indexing - retrieval - ranking - query serving - product management - cross-functional skills ### Nice to have - economics of search - embeddings - ranking models - ML-based retrieval - LLM products --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5371065008?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)