About Anthropic

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.

About the Role

Every time someone talks to Claude -- through the API, claude.ai, our cloud partners, or any of our expanding surfaces -- the request lands on an AI accelerator. Not one kind, many kinds: TPUs, Trainium chips, GPUs. Each arrives with its own software stack, performance characteristics, failure modes, and operational quirks. Someone has to take raw silicon and turn it into a platform that the rest of Anthropic can build on without thinking about which chip is underneath. That's us.

The Accelerator Platform team owns the bringup and normalization of new hardware platforms for Anthropic's first party inference fleet. We sit between the low-level systems teams and the serving infrastructure that runs production inference -- bridging the gap so that every new accelerator generation ships as a first-class production platform. It's deeply technical work at the intersection of hardware enablement, distributed systems, and ML infrastructure, and it is directly on the critical path for Anthropic's compute strategy.

We're hiring an Engineering Manager to build and lead this team. You'll inherit a small nucleus of experienced engineers and grow it into a standalone platform organization. You'll set technical direction, hire a strong team, and partner closely with hardware vendors, cloud providers, and teams across Inference to bring new accelerator generations online quickly and reliably.

Responsibilities:

• Build and lead the Accelerator Platform team -- hiring, developing, and retaining engineers who thrive at the hardware/software boundary

• Own the end-to-end bring-up lifecycle for new accelerator platforms (multiple generations of Trainium, TPUs, and GPUs), from initial silicon availability through production-ready inference

• Define and drive the platform normalization layer -- ensuring new hardware integrates cleanly with Anthropic's inference serving stack to provide a consistent abstractio

• Partner with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure) and chip vendors on hardware roadmaps, capacity planning, and platform-specific technical challenges

• Collaborate closely with teams across Inference and Infrastructure to ensure new platforms meet production reliability and latency requirements from day one

• Contribute to Anthropic's multi-cloud compute strategy -- helping the organization maintain optionality across accelerator families and avoid lock-in to any single vendor

• Manage the team's priorities across competing demands: new platform bring-up, ongoing production support for existing platforms, and longer-term investments in tooling and automation.

You may be a good fit if you:

• Have significant experience managing infrastructure or platform engineering teams (3+ years in engineering management)

• Have deep technical fluency in systems programming, distributed systems, or hardware/software co-design -- you need to understand the stack deeply enough to make sound technical and hiring decisions

• Have experience bringing up or operating heterogeneous compute infrastructure at scale -- whether that's GPU clusters, TPU pods, custom ASICs, or FPGA deployments.

• Are comfortable with ambiguity and can build structure where none exists. This team is being carved out as a new entity; you'll be defining its charter, processes, and culture from scratch

• Think strategically about hardware roadmaps and can translate vendor capabilities into engineering plans

• Build strong cross-functional relationships -- this role requires tight collaboration with hardware vendors, cloud partners, and half a dozen internal teams

• Care deeply about both technical excellence and the people doing the work.

Strong candidates may also:

• Have direct experience with ML accelerator architectures (GPU/CUDA, TPU/XLA, Trainium/Neuron, or similar)

• Have worked on ML inference serving infrastructure at scale (1000+ accelerators)

• Have experience with Kubernetes-based ML workload orchestration

• Understand ML-specific networking (RDMA, Infini Band, NVLink, ICI) and how interconnect topology affects serving performance

• Have experience managing vendor relationships and influencing hardware/software roadmaps

• Have led teams through rapid growth phases (hiring 5+ engineers in a short timeframe).

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary:$405,000—$485,000 USD

Logistics Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

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.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

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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 to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process