Engineering Manager, Human Data Interfaces

Details

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The Human Data Interfaces team builds systems to collect data that improves our models, including tooling and front-end and back-end infrastructure that enables researchers to gather high-quality data at scale. As an Engineering Manager on this team you will support engineers building these systems, work with research teams to design data-collection approaches, and evolve infrastructure to incorporate new research advances.

Responsibilities

• Prioritize the team's work in collaboration with research teams to support fast iteration on data collection experiments and data quality
• Design and run engineering processes such as postmortem review, incident response, and on-call rotations
• Coach and support direct reports to pursue their professional growth
• Run the team's recruiting efforts, including designing interview loops, evaluating candidates, and closing offers
• Set technical and team direction to enable efficient development of internal tools, front-end and back-end systems, and data collection pipelines

Requirements

• At least 2 years of management experience and demonstrated enjoyment of people management
• Strong experience building internal tools and working with tool users to understand needs
• Ability to understand a wide range of complex technical systems at a high level
• Interest in how humans interact with AI systems and designing experiences that elicit high-quality data
• Experience working with research teams (especially human-in-the-loop systems or data collection pipelines) is strongly preferred
• Background building user-facing applications involving complex UI interactions or annotation workflows is a plus
• Strong project management skills: prioritization, communicating across team/org boundaries
• Experience recruiting and predicting staffing needs
• Education: at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience

Compensation

• Annual base salary: $405,000 - $485,000 USD
• Total compensation package for full-time employees includes equity, benefits, and may include incentive compensation

Logistics & Benefits

• Location: San Francisco, CA (location-based hybrid policy: staff expected to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time)
• Visa sponsorship: Anthropic will make reasonable efforts to sponsor visas where possible
• Benefits include competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and office space for collaboration

Nice-to-have / Strong Candidates May Also Have

• Experience working with research teams on human-in-the-loop systems or data collection pipelines
• Background in building user-facing applications with complex UI interactions or annotation workflows
• Strong people management experience (coaching, performance evaluation, mentorship, career development)
• Experience recruiting for engineering teams

How to Apply / Other Notes

• Anthropic encourages applicants who may not meet every qualification to apply
• Guidance on candidate AI usage is provided in Anthropic's application policy