Engineering Manager, Scheduler and Fleet Efficiency

Location: San Francisco, CA or New York City, NY; hybrid policy requires staff to work from an office at least 25% of the time.

Annual salary: $405,000–$485,000 USD

Company

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

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 a large Kubernetes compute fleet.
• Partner with capacity planning, research, inference, and product teams to improve workload placement and compute utilization.
• Drive the roadmap for scheduler capabilities, fleet utilization, and the developer experience of launching and managing jobs.
• Define metrics for utilization, queue wait time, job-start latency, and scheduling quality.
• Hire, coach, and develop an inclusive, high-performing engineering team while contributing to engineering-wide initiatives.

Requirements

• Experience managing and growing a team of software engineers.
• Hands-on software engineering experience as an individual contributor before moving into management.
• 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 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 building developer tooling, observability, or incident-response practices for control-plane systems.
• Experience building a culture of belonging and engineering excellence.

Culture & Benefits

• Visa sponsorship is available, with immigration-lawyer support, although sponsorship cannot be guaranteed for every role or candidate.
• Flexible working hours and a collaborative office environment.
• Competitive compensation, optional equity-donation matching, generous vacation, and parental leave.
• Highly collaborative work across research, engineering, policy, and business functions.