Engineering Manager, API Core

<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>About Anthropic</strong></h2> <p>Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.</p></div><h2><strong>About Anthropic</strong></h2> <p>Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.</p> <h2><strong>About the role</strong></h2> <p>Anthropic is seeking an Engineering leader to lead the API Core team within API. API Core owns the hot path of the Claude API —/v1/messages and the request lifecycle that sits in front of every inference call Anthropic serves. As Claude's usage continues to scale, the efficiency, throughput, and reliability of the core API directly determine how much capacity we can deliver per chip, how quickly we can onboard new workloads, and how fairly we allocate constrained inference resources across customers.</p> <p>The work spans service-level efficiency (improvements of latency-sensitive paths), throughput scaling (RPS improvements, request multiplexing, connection management), rate limiting and acceleration limits (the quota and fairness systems that mediate access to compute), and the foundational platform abstractions that the rest of the API organization builds on. The team operates at the intersection of product engineering and infrastructure, partnering deeply with Inference, Compute, and the broader Platform org to translate model-serving capacity into customer-facing throughput.</p> <p>This is a high-impact, high-visibility leadership role reporting to the Head o