# Engineering Manager, Research Tools

**Company:** [Anthropic](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/anthropic)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $1 – $2
**Skills:** Machine Learning, Distributed Systems, Research Infrastructure, Finetuning Pipelines, People Management, Project Management, Recruiting, Incident Response, Postmortem Reviews, Cross-Functional Collaboration
**Posted:** 2026-05-22

> Manage a team of ML and distributed systems engineers building research tools and production finetuning infrastructure. Drive prioritization, recruiting, coaching, and process design to accelerate research iteration.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Prioritize the team’s work in collaboration with the technical lead, research teams, and product teams to support fast iteration on research projects and training runs.
- Design processes (e.g., postmortem review, incident response, on-call rotations) that help the team operate effectively.
- Coach and support your reports to understand and pursue their professional growth.
- Run the team’s recruiting efforts efficiently, ensuring we can grow as quickly as we need through a period of rapid growth.

## Requirements

- At least 2 years of people management experience and actively enjoy people management.
- Quick study: able to understand at a high level a large number of different complex technical systems.
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience in a field relevant to the role.

## Nice-to-Haves

- Experience working with research teams, especially as part of a “research to production” pipeline.
- Strong people management experience: coaching, performance evaluation, mentorship, career development.
- Strong project management skills: prioritization, communicating across team/org boundaries.
- Experience recruiting for your team: predicting staffing needs, designing interview loops, evaluating candidates, and closing them.

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