# Engineering Manager, Safeguards

**Company:** [Anthropic](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/anthropic)
**Location:** London, United Kingdom
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** £325k – £390k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Full-Stack Engineering, Platform Engineering, Software Architecture, Analytics, Privacy Engineering, Data Governance, LLMs, Agentic Systems, Human-In-The-Loop Automation, Developer Platforms, Trust And Safety, Cloud Platforms
**Posted:** 2026-09-02

> Leads the Review Tooling team in building investigation, enforcement, analytics, and privacy-aware platforms that help human reviewers and Claude scale safety workflows. Requires engineering management experience, a full-stack or platform background, and cross-functional work with policy, operations, legal, and data science teams.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead, grow, and develop a team building investigation, review, and enforcement tooling across first-party and third-party platform surfaces.
- Define the vision and roadmap for a review tooling platform, including analytics, privacy-compatible data access primitives, and a sandbox for rapidly developing review interfaces.
- Develop strategies for scaling review through automation, including Claude-assisted and Claude-driven workflows that keep humans involved where judgment is important.
- Partner with policy, operations, legal, privacy, and data science stakeholders to translate enforcement and investigation needs into reliable systems.
- Ensure tooling aligns with privacy primitives and data-retention commitments.
- Create clarity in an ambiguous, evolving environment.
- Hire, coach, and develop technical talent using an inclusive and equitable approach.
- Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as part of the engineering management community.

## Requirements
- Experience managing software engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, and developing engineers.
- Technical background in full-stack or platform engineering, with the ability to engage in architecture and design discussions.
- Experience shipping internal tools or platforms for demanding operational users and measurably improving their workflows.
- Experience working cross-functionally with operations, policy, legal, or similar non-engineering partners.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to explain technical tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

## Nice-to-haves
- 4+ years of management experience and 10+ years of industry software engineering experience.
- Experience building trust and safety, integrity, fraud, abuse-prevention, or human-review tooling at scale.
- Experience designing systems under strict privacy, compliance, or data-governance constraints, including zero-data-retention environments.
- Experience integrating LLMs or agentic systems into operational workflows or building human-in-the-loop automation.
- Experience building developer platforms or extensible tooling frameworks.
- Experience supporting enforcement or moderation systems across multiple product surfaces, including enterprise or cloud platforms.

## Compensation
- Annual salary: £325,000–£390,000 GBP.

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