Engineering Manager, Agent Runtime Platform

Engineering Manager, Agent Runtime Platform

San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA

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.

The Agent Runtime Platform provisions and runs the compute and runtimes behind Anthropic's internal agents: secure, credential-managed environments where agents do real engineering and knowledge work  an Engineering Manager on these teams, you will be responsible for ensuring you and your team are identifying and removing friction and blockers to productivity, experimenting at the frontier, and building security and quality into agents.

You also will help bring clarity, focus, and context to your teams in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

• Own the technical strategy and roadmap, translating goals into concrete execution
• Manage day-to-day execution of the team's work
• Prioritize the team's work and manage projects in a highly dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Stay hands-on: build and ship the runtime platform and tooling
• Define what secure agent execution means at scale, partnering with security teams on sandboxing, isolation, and credential management
• Build primitives that are composable and reusable across various agents
• Own infrastructure scalability and reliability: capacity planning across cloud providers, right-sizing, and operational excellence
• Collaborate cross-team, supporting internal teams bringing up their agents

• Have 10+ years building and operating large-scale platforms or distributed systems
• Have 1+ years of management experience in a technical environment, particularly in building platforms or agents at scale
• Are deeply interested in the potential transformative effects of advanced AI systems and agents, and are committed to ensuring their safe deployment
• Have experience with container or VM orchestration at scale
• Are obsessed with productivity and transforming how we work
• Have excellent communication skills and enjoy supporting internal partners

• Engineering management experience on top of a strong IC track record
• Experience with harness engineering
• Experience with building security-sensitive infrastructure: sandboxing, workload isolation, credential management, or access control
• Experience with capacity planning and utilization across multiple cloud providers
• Experience working with researchers, engineers and other functional roles

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.

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.

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