# Engineering Manager, Scheduler and Fleet Efficiency

**Company:** [Anthropic](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/anthropic)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $405k – $485k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Cluster Scheduling, Distributed Systems, Infrastructure Systems, Resource Requests, Resource Limits, Affinity, Priority And Preemption, Custom Schedulers, Controllers, Job Orchestration, Resource Management, Observability, Incident Response, Machine Learning Workloads
**Posted:** 2026-09-01

> Leads the team responsible for Anthropic’s compute scheduling platform, job-launch tooling, and fleet-efficiency systems. The role requires engineering management experience, a hands-on software engineering background, and expertise in large-scale infrastructure and Kubernetes scheduling.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a team building the scheduling platform, job-launch tooling, and fleet-efficiency systems; own planning, execution, and delivery.
- Set technical direction for scheduling, placement, queueing, and quota across the compute fleet.
- Partner with capacity planning, research, inference, and product teams to bring workloads onto the paved path and improve scheduling efficiency.
- Drive the roadmap for scheduler capabilities, fleet utilization, and the developer experience of launching and managing jobs.
- Define and track fleet-efficiency and scheduling-quality metrics, including utilization, queue wait, and job-start latency.
- Create clarity for the team and stakeholders in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment.
- Lead inclusive hiring, coaching, and career development while sustaining a high-performing, healthy team.
- Represent the team across engineering and contribute to engineering-wide initiatives.

## Requirements
- Experience managing and growing a team of software engineers.
- Prior hands-on software engineering experience as an individual contributor.
- Experience building or operating large-scale distributed or infrastructure systems in production.
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes and cluster scheduling concepts, including resource requests and limits, affinity, priority and preemption, and custom schedulers or controllers.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience in a relevant field.

## Nice-to-haves
- 5+ years of engineering management experience, including infrastructure, platform, or compute teams.
- Experience owning a cluster scheduler, job orchestration system, or resource manager at scale.
- Familiarity with scheduling machine-learning workloads on accelerators and balancing utilization, fairness, and latency.
- Experience building developer tooling used by engineers daily.
- Background in observability or incident response for control-plane systems.
- Track record of improving production reliability and building cultures of belonging and engineering excellence.
- Low-ego, empathetic, lead-by-example approach.

## Compensation
- Annual salary: **$405,000–$485,000 USD**
- Benefits include competitive benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and office collaboration space.

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