# Engineering Manager, Safeguards Review Tooling

**Company:** [Anthropic](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/anthropic)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $405k – $485k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Full-Stack Engineering, Platform Engineering, Software Architecture, Team Leadership, Hiring And Coaching, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Privacy-Preserving Systems, Data Governance, Llm Integration, Human-In-The-Loop Automation, Trust And Safety Tooling, Developer Platforms
**Posted:** 2026-06-10

> Lead the Review Tooling engineering team building investigation, review, and enforcement systems that help humans and Claude investigate potential harms and take enforcement actions across Anthropic's platforms.

## Job Description

## Key Responsibilities
- Lead, grow, and develop a team of engineers building investigation, review, and enforcement tooling for both first-party and third-party platform surfaces
- Define the vision and roadmap for our review tooling platform, including analytics, privacy-compatible data access primitives, and a sandbox for rapidly developing new review interfaces
- Drive the team's strategy for scaling review through automation, including enabling reviewers to use Claude effectively and building toward Claude-assisted and Claude-driven review workflows
- Partner with policy, operations, legal, privacy, and data science stakeholders to translate enforcement and investigation needs into reliable, well-designed systems
- Ensure review tooling evolves alongside new privacy primitives and data retention commitments, so reviewers can do their work without compromising user trust
- Create clarity for the team and stakeholders in an ambiguous and evolving environment
- Take an inclusive, equitable approach to hiring and coaching top technical talent, and maintain a high-performing team
- Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Anthropic's engineering management community

## Minimum Qualifications
- Experience managing software engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, and developing engineers
- A technical background in full-stack or platform engineering, with the ability to engage deeply in architecture and design discussions
- Experience shipping internal tools or platforms with demanding operational users, and a track record of improving their workflows measurably
- Experience working cross-functionally with non-engineering partners such as operations, policy, or legal teams
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain technical tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders
- Care about the societal impacts of AI and want your work to make powerful systems safer

## Preferred Qualifications
- 4+ years of management experience, 10+ years of industry software engineering experience
- Experience building trust and safety, integrity, fraud, or abuse-prevention tooling, or other systems supporting human review at scale
- Experience designing systems under strict privacy, compliance, or data governance constraints, such as 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 that other teams build on top of
- Experience supporting enforcement or moderation systems across multiple product surfaces, including enterprise or cloud platform contexts

## Compensation & Benefits
- Annual Salary: $405,000—$485,000 USD
- Competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours

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