Engineering Manager, Safeguards

<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 the role</strong></h2> <p>The Safeguards team is responsible for ensuring our models and products are developed and deployed safely. We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Systems team, which builds the real-time infrastructure that classifies the tokens Claude produces and determines whether they are safe to send to users.</p> <p>This is a foundational role. You'll own the infrastructure that encodes high-stakes decisions about which classifiers to run, where, how, and what to do with their results. These decisions need to be correct, made within milliseconds, available at very high nines, and cost-effective. You will be responsible for some of the most critical infrastructure at Anthropic.</p> <p>You'll partner closely with other Safeguards teams, core infrastructure, and product teams to ensure our enforcement systems are fast, available, correct, and cost-efficient, and that they keep pace with increasingly complex safeguard requirements.</p> <h2><strong>Key responsibilities</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Lead, grow, and develop a team of engineers building critical real-time infrastructure</li> <li>Define the vision and roadmap for our systems, including upcoming functionality, robustness, and operational maturity</li> <li>Drive the team's strategy for scaling through operational maturity, platform building, automation, and safely using Claude to accelerate all of it</li> <li>Partner with Safeguards and core infrastructure teams to translate requirements into a coherent design and action plan</li> <li>Create clarity for the team and stakehold