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Engineering Manager, Scheduler and Fleet Efficiency

Anthropic· Software Engineering - Infrastructure
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA), Hybrid (New York City, NY)Full-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Engineering manager role leading Anthropic's Scheduler team responsible for the scheduling layer of the Kubernetes-based compute fleet, including job-launch tooling, fleet utilization, and developer experience across a heterogeneous, growing environment.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and grow a team of engineers building Anthropic's scheduling platform, job-launch tooling, and fleet-efficiency systems, owning planning, execution, and delivery against key milestones
  • Set technical direction for scheduling, placement, queueing, and quota across Anthropic's compute fleet
  • Partner with capacity planning, research, inference, and product teams to bring workloads onto the paved path and make efficient scheduling decisions
  • Drive the roadmap for scheduler capabilities, fleet utilization, and the developer experience of launching and managing jobs
  • Define and track the metrics that measure fleet efficiency and scheduling quality (utilization, queue wait, job-start latency, etc.) and hold the team accountable to them
  • Create clarity for the team and stakeholders in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment where demand for compute routinely exceeds supply
  • Take an inclusive, equitable approach to hiring, coaching, and career development, and sustain a high-performing, healthy team
  • Represent the team across the engineering organization and contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Anthropic's engineering management group

Qualifications

  • Experience managing and growing a team of software engineers
  • A hands-on software engineering background as an individual contributor prior to moving into management
  • Experience building or operating large-scale distributed or infrastructure systems in production
  • Working knowledge of Kubernetes and cluster scheduling concepts, such as resource requests and limits, affinity, priority and preemption, and custom schedulers or controllers
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create clarity across teams

Skills

Required:Team leadership and people managementDistributed systems / infrastructureKubernetes and cluster scheduling
Nice to have:Scheduler/Job orchestration systems

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation and parental leave
  • Flexible working hours
  • Lovely office space in San Francisco
Last updated Sep 2, 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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