Engineering Manager, Safeguards Interventions

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation focused on creating reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The Safeguards team ensures models and products are developed and deployed safely. We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Interventions team, responsible for what happens when a safety system fires, including inline interventions for bio, cyber, acceptable usage, child safety, and copyright across all Anthropic surfaces (1P products, API, third-party clouds).

Key responsibilities:

• Hands-on lead and grow a team of engineers; own roadmap, OKRs, and execution.
• Drive cross-functional work with ML Infra, Research, Product, Policy, Legal, and cloud partners.
• Set the bar for when an intervention is good enough to ship, backed by measurement, and represent safety/product tradeoffs.
• Own production reliability for intervention and compliance systems: incident response, postmortems, SLOs, and verification processes.

Minimum qualifications:

• Managed engineering teams shipping production ML or safety-enforcement systems affecting users.
• Run high-stakes, compliance-adjacent production systems; comfortable with on-call, incidents, regulator-driven requirements.
• Care about measurement; built evals proving system behavior.
• Drive ambiguous multi-stakeholder tradeoffs (safety vs UX vs latency vs cost).
• Care deeply about AI safety.

Preferred qualifications:

• Trust & safety, integrity, or abuse-prevention engineering at scale.
• Compliance-driven systems (child safety, copyright, age assurance) and legal/policy interfaces.
• Shipped systems across multiple cloud providers and understand parity/verification problems.

Annual compensation: $405,000—$485,000 USD.

Location: San Francisco, CA. Hybrid policy: all staff expected in office at least 25% of the time.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas and will make reasonable efforts.