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Engineering Manager, Search

AnthropicSan Francisco, CA | New York City, NYAI Research & Engineering
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Job type
Full-time
Posted
3 Aug 2026
Status
Open · checked 7d ago

About this role

This Engineering Manager role at Anthropic offers the chance to lead the Search Platform team in San Francisco, California or New York City, New York. The position suits an experienced technical leader with a strong background in search systems who wants to shape the retrieval stack powering Claude.

Role Overview

Anthropic is looking for an Engineering Manager to head up the Search Platform team. This group builds the core search stack behind Claude, covering indexes, retrieval systems, ranking mechanisms, and serving infrastructure across claude.ai, APIs, and agentic surfaces. The team owns the search solution end to end, handling product traffic alongside research and training workloads. In addition to technical leadership, the role includes product responsibilities, requiring the manager to help define the search experience, prioritize launches, and partner closely with product, research, and infrastructure teams.

Key Responsibilities

Lead and scale the engineering team responsible for Anthropic's search platform, including indexing, retrieval, ranking, and serving.
Define the strategy and roadmap for meeting Claude's ongoing search requirements.
Oversee search quality by establishing evaluation methodologies, tracking relevance metrics, detecting regressions, and driving ranking enhancements.
Run the platform at production scale while balancing product traffic with research and training demands.
Take on product duties when necessary to prioritize the search experience and represent search in broader product discussions.
Foster cross-functional alignment across product, research, and infrastructure partners.
Remain hands-on by conducting design reviews, following up on incidents, and investigating relevance changes.
Recruit, hire, and retain engineering talent in a competitive market.

Requirements

Significant background managing engineering teams, including hiring and scaling groups through rapid periods of change.
Direct experience building or operating large-scale search systems spanning indexing, retrieval, ranking, or query serving.
Technical depth sufficient to review designs, read code, and engage in technical discussions with senior individual contributors.
A product mindset with the ability to make product decisions independently when needed.
Experience maintaining high-scale, latency-sensitive production systems with strict reliability standards.
Strong cross-functional collaboration skills to align diverse internal partners.
Track record of recruiting and closing senior engineering candidates.
Interest in AI safety and the mission of Anthropic.
A Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience in a relevant field.
Ability to meet the location-based hybrid policy requiring time in the office at least 25% of the time.

Nice to Have

Familiarity with the economics of search, covering index freshness, storage, serving costs, and quality tradeoffs.
Background working with embeddings, ranking models, or machine learning-based retrieval.
Experience migrating traffic from external vendors onto in-house infrastructure.
Exposure to large language model products and the retrieval needs associated with large-scale training and inference.

Skills and Tools

LLM
Search Indexing and Retrieval Systems
Query Serving Infrastructure
Ranking Models and Embeddings

Salary and Benefits

Annual Salary: $320,000 to $405,000 USD
Competitive compensation and benefits package
Optional equity donation matching
Generous vacation and parental leave policies
Flexible working hours
Visa sponsorship available for qualifying candidates

About the Company

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation on a mission to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that remain safe and beneficial for society. Operating as a collaborative group of researchers, engineers, and policy experts, the organization views AI research as an empirical science focused on large-scale efforts. Staff members work together in office environments designed for teamwork and innovation.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should submit their application directly through the official Anthropic careers page.

Skills and tech stack

LLM

Questions candidates ask

Where is this job located?

The role is based in San Francisco, CA or New York City, NY, with a hybrid work policy requiring staff to be in the office at least 25% of the time.

What is the salary range for the Engineering Manager, Search role?

The annual salary range is $320,000 to $405,000 USD.

Does Anthropic offer visa sponsorship for this position?

Yes, Anthropic sponsors visas for this role and partners with an immigration lawyer to assist candidates who receive an offer.

What education or experience is required?

Candidates need a Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience in a relevant field, along with significant engineering management and large-scale search system experience.

How should I apply?

You should apply directly on the official Anthropic careers page.

Ready to apply?

The application is on the official Anthropic careers page.

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