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Technical Program Manager, Safeguards (Infrastructure & Evals)

AnthropicSan Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WATechnical Program Management
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Job type
Full-time
Posted
4 Feb 2026
Status
Open · checked 7d ago

About this role

The Technical Program Manager, Safeguards (Infrastructure & Evals) position at Anthropic involves owning the operational health and forward momentum of production safety stacks in San Francisco, CA, New York City, NY, or Seattle, WA. This role is well-suited for a technical professional passionate about AI safety, infrastructure reliability, and cross-team coordination.

Role Overview

Safeguards Engineering builds and operates the infrastructure that keeps Anthropic's AI systems safe in production, including classifiers, detection pipelines, evaluation platforms, and monitoring systems. As a Technical Program Manager for Safeguards Infrastructure and Evals, the primary responsibility is driving reliability across these safety-critical pipelines. This position sits at the intersection of operations and program management, requiring enough technical depth to triage incidents effectively and converse with engineers while keeping operations and projects moving smoothly.

Key Responsibilities

Own the Safeguards Engineering ops review by driving a recurring cadence that surfaces recent incidents, failures, and reliability trends.
Drive incident tracking and post-mortem execution across the organization, ensuring post-mortems are written and action items are successfully completed.
Establish and maintain service-level objectives (SLOs) for safety-critical pipelines in partnership with teams like Inference and Cloud Inference.
Maintain runbook quality and incident-ownership clarity by partnering with engineering leads to keep playbooks accurate and actionable.
Drive platform migrations and infrastructure projects, keeping complex cross-team dependencies sequenced and on track.
Coordinate evaluations platform improvements by partnering with the evals engineering team to scale self-serve capabilities and eval factory infrastructure.

Requirements

Solid technical program management experience, particularly within operational or infrastructure-heavy environments.
Ability to understand how production ML systems work to intelligently triage incidents and hold substantive technical discussions with engineers.
Strong dedication to closing loops on post-mortem action items, SLO tracking, and runbook updates.
Effective cross-boundary collaboration skills to coordinate shared work through influence and clear communication.
Comfort context-switching between keeping the lights on and executing longer-horizon platform projects.
Experience with or a strong interest in AI safety and the unique reliability demands of safety-critical pipelines.
Minimum of 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 staff to be in one of the offices at least 25% of the time.

Nice to Have

Experience with SRE practices, incident management frameworks, or large-scale on-call operations.
Background working on or with evaluation infrastructure for machine learning systems.
Experience driving infrastructure migrations in complex, multi-team environments without taking operational systems offline.
Familiarity with monitoring and alerting tooling such as PagerDuty, Datadog, or equivalents.

Skills and Tools

Technical Program Management
Incident Management and Post-Mortem Tracking
SLO Definition and Monitoring
Production ML Systems Understanding
Infrastructure Migrations
Monitoring and Alerting Tooling (PagerDuty, Datadog)

Salary and Benefits

Annual Salary Range: $290,000 to $365,000 USD
Competitive compensation and benefits
Optional equity donation matching
Generous vacation and parental leave
Flexible working hours
Visa sponsorship is available for eligible candidates

About the Company

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation on a mission to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that are safe and beneficial for users and society. Operating as a single cohesive team focused on large-scale empirical research, the organization values collaboration, communication, and diverse perspectives to tackle complex challenges in AI safety and alignment.

How to Apply

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

Questions candidates ask

What locations is this role available in?

This role is available in San Francisco, CA, New York City, NY, or Seattle, WA, with a hybrid work policy requiring at least 25% time in the office.

What is the salary range for the Technical Program Manager, Safeguards role?

The annual base salary range for this position is $290,000 to $365,000 USD.

Does Anthropic offer visa sponsorship for this position?

Yes, Anthropic sponsors visas for eligible roles and makes every reasonable effort to secure visas with the help of an immigration lawyer if an offer is made.

What are the primary responsibilities of this position?

Primary responsibilities include driving reliability, owning the incident-response and post-mortem process, establishing SLOs, coordinating platform migrations, and improving evaluation platforms.

What level of education is required to apply?

A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience in a relevant field is required.

Ready to apply?

The application is on the official Anthropic careers page.

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