Anthropic

Engineering Manager, Inference Infrastructure

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA

Posted 16 days ago

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This role has been open
16 days
Anthropic's roles stay open a median of 41 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
0% of Anthropic's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Anthropic
high
276 stale, 19 reposted of 603 open
Hiring momentum
795 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-09-18

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About this role

As an Engineering Manager for Inference Infrastructure at Anthropic, you will lead a technical team responsible for the coordination and efficiency of the inference fleet. Your role involves overseeing the technical roadmap, collaborating with various teams to improve system performance, and managing operational processes such as incident response and deployment safety. You will also be accountable for the health and evolution of the system as it adapts to changes in models, hardware, and cloud environments.

Our read on this posting3.2out of 5
benefits
3/5
freshness
4/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

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What you need

  • Engineering management experience leading teams on critical-path production infrastructure at scale
  • A deep systems background in load balancing, scheduling, cluster orchestration, autoscaling, cache-coherent distributed state, or high-performance networking
  • Experience shipping performance or efficiency improvements in large-scale systems with measurable impact
  • Experience running production infrastructure with operational stakes including on-call and incident response
  • Results-oriented approach with comfort in balancing throughput, latency, cost, stability, and feature velocity
  • Ability to build strong relationships across team boundaries

Nice to have

  • 5+ years of engineering management experience
  • Experience with LLM inference serving
  • Background in cluster schedulers, autoscalers, load balancers, or fleet control planes at scale
  • Experience running workloads across multiple clouds
  • Familiarity with heterogeneous accelerator fleets

What you get

  • Competitive compensation
  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation and parental leave
  • Flexible working hours
  • Lovely office space for collaboration

Worth weighing

  • No specific mention of remote work flexibility beyond hybrid policy
  • The role requires a strong technical background in systems, which may limit candidates without such experience
  • The position involves significant responsibility in managing operational processes, which may be stressful

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Listed by Anthropic on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-18. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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