Technical Program Manager, Safeguards (AI)

Location: San Francisco, CA; New York City, NY; or Seattle, WA. Hybrid policy: staff are expected to work from one of the offices at least 25% of the time.

Annual salary: $290,000–$365,000 USD

Company

Anthropic develops reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems designed to be safe and beneficial for users and society.

What you will do

• Own the Safeguards Engineering operations review and coordinate recurring reliability and risk discussions.
• Track incidents, drive post-mortems, and ensure remediation actions are completed across Safeguards Engineering and partner teams.
• Define and monitor SLOs for safety-critical pipelines with Safeguards Engineering, Inference, and Cloud Inference.
• Maintain accurate runbooks and clear incident ownership for production safety systems.
• Manage infrastructure, incident-platform, and monitoring migrations across multiple teams.
• Coordinate self-service capabilities and broader infrastructure improvements for the ML evaluation platform.

Requirements

• Technical program management experience in operational or infrastructure-heavy environments.
• Ability to understand production ML systems, triage incidents, and discuss technical issues with engineers.
• Experience coordinating work across teams without direct authority and managing operational and long-term projects simultaneously.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience in a relevant field.
• Ability to work from one of the listed US offices at least 25% of the time.

Nice to have

• Experience with SRE practices, incident-management frameworks, or large-scale on-call operations.
• Experience with ML evaluation infrastructure and infrastructure migrations in complex multi-team environments.
• Familiarity with PagerDuty, Datadog, or comparable monitoring and alerting tools.
• Experience with or strong interest in AI safety.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative research environment focused on trustworthy and steerable AI.
• Flexible working hours and an office environment designed for collaboration.
• Generous vacation and parental leave.
• Competitive compensation and optional equity donation matching.
• Visa sponsorship is available, with immigration-lawyer support, subject to role and candidate eligibility.