Engineering Manager, Scheduler and Fleet Efficiency (AI)

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

Annual salary: $405,000–$485,000 USD

Company

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

What you will do

• Lead and grow the engineering team responsible for the scheduling platform, job-launch tooling, and fleet-efficiency systems.
• Set technical direction for scheduling, placement, queueing, and quota management across the Kubernetes compute fleet.
• Partner with capacity planning, research, inference, and product teams to improve workload onboarding and resource utilization.
• Drive the roadmap for scheduler capabilities, fleet utilization, and the developer experience of launching and managing jobs.
• Define and track metrics such as utilization, queue wait time, and job-start latency.
• Hire, coach, and support career development while representing the team across the engineering organization.

Requirements

• Experience managing and growing a team of software engineers.
• Prior hands-on software engineering experience as an individual contributor.
• Experience building or operating large-scale distributed or infrastructure systems in production.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and cluster scheduling concepts, including resource requests and limits, affinity, priority, preemption, and custom schedulers or controllers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, or professional experience in a relevant field.

Nice to have

• 5+ years of engineering management experience leading infrastructure, platform, or compute teams.
• Experience owning a cluster scheduler, job orchestration system, or resource manager at scale.
• Experience scheduling machine-learning workloads on accelerators and balancing utilization, fairness, and latency.
• Experience with developer tooling, observability, incident response, or production reliability for control-plane systems.
• Experience building inclusive, high-performing engineering teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative work across research, engineering, policy, and business teams.
• Flexible working hours and an office environment designed for collaboration.
• Generous vacation and parental leave.
• Competitive compensation and benefits with optional equity donation matching.
• Visa sponsorship is available, with immigration-lawyer support, subject to role and candidate eligibility.