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Engineering Manager, Search

Anthropic· AI Research & Engineering
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA), Hybrid (New York City, NY)$320k - $405kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Engineering Manager responsible for leading the Search Platform team at Anthropic, focusing on indexing, retrieval, ranking, and serving infrastructure powering Claude’s search capabilities across claude.ai, API, and agentic surfaces. Combines leadership with hands-on technical input, product-minded decision making, and cross-functional collaboration with product, research, and infrastructure teams.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and grow the team of engineers building Anthropic's search platform: indexing, retrieval, ranking and serving
  • Own the strategy and roadmap for the platform and how Claude's search needs are met over time
  • Own search quality: evaluation methodology, relevance measurement, regression detection and the ranking improvements they drive
  • Operate the platform at scale, balancing product traffic against research and training demand while holding a high bar on reliability, latency and cost
  • Wear the product hat when the work calls for it: prioritize what the search experience needs, sequence launches and represent search in product discussions
  • Drive cross-team collaboration with product, research and infrastructure partners; articulate dependencies, risks and progress clearly
  • Be hands-on where it matters: design reviews, incident follow-ups and the occasional deep dive into why relevance moved
  • Recruit, close and retain strong engineers in a competitive market

Qualifications

  • Significant experience managing engineering teams, including hiring and growing a team through rapid change
  • Direct experience building or operating search systems at scale: indexing, retrieval, ranking or query serving
  • Enough technical depth to be hands-on when needed; you can review designs, read code and engage credibly with senior ICs
  • A product mindset and comfort making product calls when there isn't a PM in the room
  • A track record of running high-scale, latency-sensitive production systems with real reliability requirements
  • Strong cross-functional skills; you can align product, research and infrastructure partners with different priorities
  • Experience recruiting and closing senior engineers
  • Interest in AI safety and Anthropic's mission

Skills

Required:Team leadership and managementSearch systemsSystem design and code reviewProduct mindset

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • optional equity donation matching
  • generous vacation and parental leave
  • flexible working hours
  • lovely office space in San Francisco
  • career development opportunities
Last updated Aug 5, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Anthropic

building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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