Engineering Manager (Safeguards Review Tooling)

Join Anthropic, a leading AI safety and research company, as an Engineering Manager for the Safeguards Review Tooling team. In this foundational role, you will lead the development of systems that ensure the safe deployment of our models and products. You will define the vision and roadmap for our review tooling platform, drive the team's strategy for scaling review through automation, and partner with various stakeholders to translate enforcement and investigation needs into reliable systems. You will also have the opportunity to contribute to engineering-wide initiatives and maintain a high-performing team.

• Lead and manage a team of engineers responsible for building investigation, review, and enforcement tooling for both first-party and third-party platform surfaces.
• Define the vision and roadmap for the 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.
• 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 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
• Experience shipping internal tools or platforms with demanding operational users, and a track record of improving their workflows measurably
• Care about the societal impacts of AI and want your work to make powerful systems safer
• Experience building trust and safety, integrity, fraud, or abuse-prevention tooling, or other systems supporting human review at scale
• Experience building developer platforms or extensible tooling frameworks that other teams build on top of
• Experience integrating LLMs or agentic systems into operational workflows, or building human-in-the-loop automation
• 4+ years of management experience, 10+ years of industry software engineering experience
• Experience supporting enforcement or moderation systems across multiple product surfaces, including enterprise or cloud platform contexts
• Experience designing systems under strict privacy, compliance, or data governance constraints, such as zero data retention environments
• Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this
• Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices
• Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
• We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification