Engineering Manager, Search

Anthropic is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Search Platform team, building the search stack behind Claude. The team owns the indexes, retrieval and ranking systems, and serving infrastructure powering web search across Claude's surfaces.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and grow the team of engineers building Anthropic's search platform
• Own the strategy and roadmap for the platform and how Claude's search needs are met
• Own search quality, evaluation methodology, and ranking improvements
• Operate the platform at scale, balancing product traffic and research demand
• Wear the product hat, prioritizing the search experience and representing search in product discussions
• Drive cross-team collaboration with product, research, and infrastructure partners
• Be hands-on in design reviews, incident follow-ups, and deep dives into relevance issues
• Recruit, close, and retain strong engineers

Minimum Qualifications:

• Significant experience managing engineering teams
• Direct experience building or operating search systems at scale
• Technical depth to be hands-on when needed
• Product mindset and comfort making product calls
• Track record of running high-scale, latency-sensitive production systems
• Strong cross-functional skills
• Experience recruiting and closing senior engineers
• Interest in AI safety and Anthropic's mission

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with search economics
• Background in embeddings, ranking models, or ML-based retrieval
• Experience migrating traffic off a vendor onto in-house infrastructure
• Exposure to LLM products and retrieval demands

The annual compensation range for this role is $320,000-$405,000 USD.