Manager, Corporate Network Engineering

Anthropics mission is to create reliable interpretable and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers engineers policy experts and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

The Corporate Network Engineering team owns Anthropics corporate network: the wired wireless and edge infrastructure in our offices and research facilities around the world and the standards management systems and telemetry that let a small team run them. We hold that network to the bar of a production service designed for failure managed as code observable end-to-end and secure by default while delivering reliable connectivity to the people who depend on it every day.

Youll set the technical direction together with your engineers and own the final decision on it and on the architecture standards review and guide designs and the hard trade-offs and lead vendor and platform decisions. Youll lead and grow a small team of network engineers: set priorities drive decisions to closure hire and develop people. The team is small and the scope is broad so this role needs real depth in campus and edge networking judgment about what to standardize automate buy and build and the range to go from a wiring-closet decision to a budget defense in the same afternoon.

Youll report to the head of IT Engineering and partner closely with our Buildouts AV and Endpoint teams; with Security Engineering on network security authentication and detections; with Physical Security whose systems are critical for protecting Anthropic employees and depend on a reliable network; with Workplace Real Estate Procurement and external logistics and integration partners on new site buildouts; and with our production networking teams whose bar for reliability and automation is the one we hold ourselves to. Your work will directly shape how we scale to AI Safety Level 4 and beyond.

• Lead and grow the Corporate Network Engineering team hiring development performance planning and prioritization
• Set technical direction with the team and own the final call on architecture standards across edge campus switching wireless segmentation out-of-band management and telemetry; review designs and risky changes and step in on the hard problems
• Own reliability and operations: monitoring people act on incident response and post-incident reviews that produce changes an on-call and escalation model a small team can sustain change safety and lifecycle currency
• Move the fleet toward network-as-code: templated configuration with change control staged rollouts drift detection and automation that removes operational toil
• Partner with Security Engineering and Detection & Response on network authentication segmentation and the network as a detection source
• Deliver networks for new offices and research facilities and upgrade existing sites through live migrations with Buildouts AV Physical Security Workplace Real Estate and our logistics partners while keeping interruptions to employees minimal
• Own vendor carrier and integrator relationships and the network hardware budget: evaluations contracts lead times and multi-year refresh

• Have 10 years designing building and operating enterprise campus and edge networks including at least one environment with dozens of sites across regions
• Have 5 years leading engineers including at least 3 years as a people manager
• Lead through technical judgment: whether or not youve been hands-on-keyboard lately you can go from architecture to protocol behavior to failure modes with your engineers and your reviews make their designs better
• Default to the secure design then do the creative work to make it painless for the people using it and can walk an executive or an engineer through the trade-off and make a recommendation
• Have run the operational side not just designed it: out-of-band access monitoring people act on an on-call model a small team can sustain and change safety
• Are pragmatic about what to build buy or automate have run vendor evaluations with real money at stake and chase problems across organizational boundaries to the actual root cause
• Communicate clearly with engineers executives contractors and landlords and can bring a room of senior engineers with strong opinions to a decision theyll commit to
• Want real technical ownership with a small team including if youve led a larger organization before and care about building infrastructure for an organization trying to get AI right

• Have led corporate networking at a company that added offices faster than it added network engineers
• Have implemented certificate-based network authentication (802.1X/EAP-TLS or equivalent) and identity- or device-based segmentation at scale
• Have shipped network configuration as code and built telemetry pipelines that security and support teams actually use
• Have designed dense wireless for large event spaces and high-occupancy floors
• Have been through multiple office builds with real estate and construction teams including networks that physical security systems depend on and know what to ask for before the walls close
• Have managed integrators MSPs or smart-hands providers as an extension of a small team while keeping design authority in-house

Were looking for deep hands-on experience in each of these not surface familiarity:

• Enterprise edge: firewalls and routing (HA design routing protocols policy management across a fleet)
• Campus switching and high-density enterprise wireless (L2/L3 design redundancy RF design 6 GHz high-density venues)
• Segmentation and access control (certificate-based 802.1X dynamic segmentation guest and IoT isolation)
• Out-of-band management and secure auditable administrative access
• Network automation and configuration as code (Python templating vendor APIs source control CI)
• Network observability (streaming telemetry flow and log pipelines)
• Physical infrastructure for buildouts (MDF/IDF design structured cabling power and cooling carrier and path diversity)

Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be received on a rolling basis.

Minimum education: Bachelors 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

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

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.

Visa sponsorship:We do sponsor visas! However we arent 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.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if youre interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones were building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

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We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact advancing our long-term goals of steerable trustworthy AI rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. Were an extremely collaborative group and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic including: GPT-3 Circuit-Based Interpretability Multimodal Neurons Scaling Laws AI & Compute Concrete Problems in AI Safety and Learning from Human Preferences.

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits optional equity donation matching generous vacation and parental leave flexible working hours and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates AI Usage:Learn aboutour policy for using AI in our application process.