# Engineering Manager, Search

**Company:** [Anthropic](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/anthropic)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $320k – $405k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** search indexing, information retrieval, ranking systems, query serving, search evaluation, relevance measurement, Embeddings, ranking models, Machine Learning, llm products, production systems, reliability engineering, latency optimization, Incident Response, Recruiting
**Posted:** 2026-08-03

> Leads the engineering team responsible for Claude’s search platform, spanning indexing, retrieval, ranking, serving, and search quality. The role combines engineering management, product direction, large-scale production operations, and hands-on technical leadership.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead and grow the team building the search platform, including indexing, retrieval, ranking, and serving.
- Own the platform strategy and roadmap for Claude's search needs.
- Own search quality through evaluation methodology, relevance measurement, regression detection, and ranking improvements.
- Operate the platform at scale while balancing product traffic with research and training demand.
- Maintain high standards for reliability, latency, and cost.
- Make product decisions about the search experience, prioritize work, sequence launches, and represent search in product discussions.
- Collaborate with product, research, and infrastructure partners; communicate dependencies, risks, and progress.
- Participate in design reviews, incident follow-ups, and technical investigations into relevance changes.
- Recruit, close, and retain strong engineers.

## Requirements
- Significant experience managing engineering teams, including hiring and growing teams through rapid change.
- Direct experience building or operating search systems at scale, including indexing, retrieval, ranking, or query serving.
- Technical depth sufficient to review designs, read code, and engage credibly with senior individual contributors.
- Product mindset and comfort making product decisions without dedicated product management support.
- Experience operating high-scale, latency-sensitive production systems with significant reliability requirements.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration and communication skills.
- Experience recruiting and closing senior engineers.
- Interest in AI safety and Anthropic's mission.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience with search economics, including index freshness, storage and serving costs, and quality-versus-cost tradeoffs.
- Background in embeddings, ranking models, or machine-learning-based retrieval.
- Experience migrating traffic from a vendor to in-house infrastructure.
- Exposure to LLM products and retrieval demands associated with large-scale training and inference.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Annual salary range: **$320,000–$405,000 USD**.
- Competitive compensation and benefits.
- Optional equity donation matching.
- Generous vacation and parental leave.
- Flexible working hours.
- Office space for collaboration.
- Hybrid policy: staff are expected to work from an office at least 25% of the time, though some roles may require more.

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