Description
About the Role
Anthropic is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Agent Prompts & Evals team. This team owns the infrastructure that lets Anthropic ship model and prompt changes with confidence , the eval frameworks, system prompt pipelines, and regression-detection systems that every model launch depends on.
When a new Claude model is ready to ship, this team is the one answering “is it actually better in our products?” When a product team wants to change how Claude behaves, this team owns the tooling that tells them whether they broke something. It’s a platform team whose platform is model behavior itself.
The team sits deliberately at the seam between product engineering and research. You’ll partner closely with other evals groups across the company on shared infrastructure and methodology, with product teams who are shipping features on top of Claude, and with the TPMs and research PMs driving model launches. The pace is set by the model release cadence, and the team operates as both a platform owner and a hands-on partner during launch periods.
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a team of prompt engineers and platform software engineers
- Own the product-side eval platform: the frameworks, dashboards, bulk runners, and CI integrations that product teams use to measure Claude’s behavior and catch regressions before they ship
- Own system prompt infrastructure: versioning, deployment, rollback, and review tooling for the prompts that run in production across claude.ai, the API, and agentic surfaces
- Be a steady hand through model launches , these are the team’s highest-stakes operational moments and the EM is the backstop when things get chaotic
- Build durable collaboration with other evals groups across the company; this means real work on ownership boundaries, shared roadmaps, and avoiding tragedy-of-the-commons on shared eval infrastructure
- Recruit, close, and retain engineers who want to work at the intersection of product engineering and model behavior
- Shape where the team invests next: there are credible paths into frontier eval development, model launch automation, and deeper prompt engineering support, and part of the job is sequencing them
- Push the team toward measuring things that are hard to measure , behavioral drift, prompt quality, harness parity , not just things that are easy
You May Be a Good Fit If You Have
- 8+ years in software engineering with 3+ years managing engineering teams, including experience leading a platform, infra, or developer-tooling team where your customers were other engineers
- A track record of building “pits of success” , tooling and process that made it easy for other teams to do the right thing without needing to understand all the details
- Comfort managing a team with a mixed charter: platform ownership, service-to-other-teams, and a launch-driven operational rhythm, all at once
- Enough technical depth to engage on system design, review pipeline architecture, and be credible in debates with strong ICs , you don’t need to be writing code by hand every day, but you should be able to read it, review it, and be comfortable leveraging Claude to understand, design, and occasionally build.
- A product mindset and willingness to wear multiple hats when the work calls for it
- Demonstrated ability to build and maintain peer relationships with partner orgs that have different cultures and incentives , negotiating ownership, aligning roadmaps, and holding ground when it matters without being territorial about it
- Experience recruiting and closing senior ICs in a competitive market
Strong Candidates May Also Have
- Prior exposure to LLM evals, ML experimentation platforms, or model quality work , even tangentially
- Experience with A/B testing infrastructure, feature flagging, or gradual rollout systems
- Background in devtools, CI/CD platforms, or testing infrastructure at scale
- A history of managing teams that sit between two larger orgs and making that position an asset rather than a liability
- Interest in AI safety and alignment , not required, but it makes the “why” of the work land harder
Logistics
- Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
- Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
- Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
- Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
- Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren’t able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
How we’re different
We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact , advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI , rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We’re an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions