Engineering Manager, Scheduler and Fleet Efficiency
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY
Posted 15 days ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 15 days Anthropic's roles stay open a median of 40 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
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Anthropic's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Anthropic.
About this role
As an Engineering Manager for the Scheduler and Fleet Efficiency team at Anthropic, you will lead a group of engineers responsible for building and maintaining the scheduling platform that optimizes the use of Anthropic's large and diverse compute fleet. Your role involves setting technical direction, partnering with various teams to enhance scheduling efficiency, and ensuring the job-launch experience is seamless for researchers. You will also focus on metrics that measure fleet efficiency and foster a high-performing team culture.
- benefits
- 3/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Anthropic as an employer.
What you need
- Experience managing and growing a team of software engineers
- A hands-on software engineering background as an individual contributor prior to moving into management
- Experience building or operating large-scale distributed or infrastructure systems in production
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes and cluster scheduling concepts, such as resource requests and limits, affinity, priority and preemption, and custom schedulers or controllers
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create clarity across teams
Nice to have
- 5+ years of engineering management experience, including leading infrastructure, platform, or compute teams
- Experience owning a cluster scheduler, job orchestration system, or resource manager at scale
- Familiarity with scheduling ML workloads on accelerators and the tradeoffs between utilization, fairness, and latency
- Experience building developer tooling that other engineers rely on every day
- A background in observability or incident response for control-plane systems, and a track record of improving production reliability
What you get
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
- A lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues
Worth weighing
- No salary listed for non-sales roles, but a range is provided for sales roles
- Location-based hybrid policy requires staff to be in the office at least 25% of the time
- Visa sponsorship is available but not guaranteed for every role and candidate
- The role involves managing a critical infrastructure that is constantly evolving, which may present challenges in a fast-moving environment
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Listed by Anthropic on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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