Engineering Manager, Agent Runtime Platform

Details

Anthropic is building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The Agent Runtime Platform provisions and runs the compute and runtimes behind Anthropic's internal agents, providing secure, credential-managed environments where agents perform engineering and knowledge work at scale.

As an Engineering Manager, you will help identify and remove productivity friction, experiment at the frontier, and build security and quality into agents. You will provide clarity, focus, and context to your team in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical strategy and roadmap, translating goals into concrete execution.
• Manage the 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 by building and shipping the runtime platform and tooling.
• Define secure agent execution at scale, partnering with security teams on sandboxing, isolation, and credential management.
• Build composable and reusable primitives across various agents.
• Own infrastructure scalability and reliability, including capacity planning across cloud providers, right-sizing, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate across teams and support internal teams bringing up their agents.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale platforms or distributed systems.
• 1+ years of management experience in a technical environment, particularly building platforms or agents at scale.
• Deep interest in the transformative potential of advanced AI systems and agents, with a commitment to their safe deployment.
• Experience with container or virtual machine orchestration at scale.
• Strong focus on productivity and transforming how teams work.
• Excellent communication skills and enjoyment of supporting internal partners.
• A bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• A field of study relevant to the role, as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.

Strong candidates may also have engineering management experience combined with a strong individual-contributor track record, experience with harness engineering, experience building security-sensitive infrastructure such as sandboxing, workload isolation, credential management, or access control, experience with capacity planning and utilization across multiple cloud providers, and experience working with researchers, engineers, and other functional roles.

Benefits

Anthropic offers competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and an office space for collaboration. Anthropic currently expects staff to work from one of its offices at least 25% of the time. The company sponsors visas and makes reasonable efforts to assist with visa applications, supported by an immigration lawyer.