The opportunity
Anthropic is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Search Platform team. This team builds the search stack behind Claude: the indexes, retrieval and ranking systems and serving infrastructure that power web search across claude.
What you'll do
Lead and grow the team of engineers building Anthropic's search platform: indexing, retrieval, ranking and serving
Own the strategy and roadmap for the platform and how Claude's search needs are met over time
Own search quality: evaluation methodology, relevance measurement, regression detection and the ranking improvements they drive
Operate the platform at scale, balancing product traffic against research and: training demand while holding a high bar on reliability, latency and cost
Wear the product hat when the work calls for it: prioritize what the search experience needs, sequence launches and represent search in product discussions
Drive cross-team collaboration with product, research and infrastructure: partners; articulate dependencies, risks and progress clearly
What they're looking for
- Be hands-on where it matters: design reviews, incident follow-ups and the occasional deep dive into why relevance moved
- Recruit, close and retain strong engineers in a competitive market
- Significant experience managing engineering teams, including hiring and growing a team through rapid change
- Direct experience building or operating search systems at scale: indexing, retrieval, ranking or query serving
