Technical Program Manager, Hardware Systems

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.

Anthropic trains and serves frontier AI models on some of the largest accelerator fleets in the world and were now building the custom hardware systems that fleet will run on from the package boundary out through boards racks interconnect power cooling and the datacenter interface.

Were looking for a Technical Program Manager to own execution of these hardware systems from concept through production deployment. Youll drive the program that turns architecture and specs into boards and racks that ship managing ODMs CMs and component vendors on one side and coordinating silicon firmware infrastructure software supply chain and datacenter teams on the other.

This is a role on a new hardware team. Youll build the program cadence review structure and NPI process this team runs on. We need someone who has shipped hardware at scale has a realistic view of ODM/CM schedules and where they break and is comfortable owning consequential program calls without a large organization behind them.

• Own the integrated hardware systems program plan across board chassis rack and interconnect from requirements through EVT/DVT/PVT qualification and production ramp and be the source of truth on schedule risk and readiness.
• Drive execution with ODMs contract manufacturers and component/optics vendors: SOWs build schedules deliverable tracking factory readiness and escalation when they slip.
• Stand up and run the NPI cadence build matrix engineering reviews DFx issue triage exit criteria and keep it lightweight enough that a small senior team actually uses it.
• Drive the bring-up and validation program for new platforms: lab and pilot-rack logistics firmware/BMC/diagnostics coordination test coverage and the reliability and telemetry targets a platform has to hit before it enters the fleet.
• Own the interfaces that make or break a hardware program: silicon (samples package power/thermal envelopes) datacenter (power cooling rack integration deployment windows) infrastructure software (management plane provisioning telemetry) and supply chain (long-lead components second-sourcing allocation).
• Run partner and technology evaluations as a program candidate ODMs reference platforms connector/optics/memory options and land build / buy / co-design recommendations with the architecture team.
• Own program communication upward and outward for an audience that ranges from architects to executives.
• Develop and share AI-assisted approaches to hardware program management issue-tracker synthesis build-readiness checking spec/BOM consistency ODM-report digestion.

• 8 years in hardware systems / NPI program management for compute networking storage or accelerator platforms.
• Direct ownership of at least one platform from concept through volume production you can walk through its EVT/DVT/PVT arc what broke and how you recovered.
• Working technical fluency across the hardware stack power delivery thermal mechanical high-speed interconnect board design system management sufficient to interrogate status and push back credibly on architects and vendors.
• Experience managing ODMs/CMs and component vendors including SOW negotiation build tracking quality escapes and escalation.
• Track record of standing up program mechanisms on a new or early-stage hardware effort not just operating inside a mature PLC.
• Strong written communication plans reviews and exec updates that many teams depend on.
• Comfort operating with high autonomy and limited process in a fast-moving ambiguous environment.

• Experience with AI/ML accelerator systems (GPU TPU custom ASIC) HPC or hyperscale datacenter platforms and their scale-up / scale-out fabrics.
• Experience taking a first-generation custom-silicon-based system from bring-up through fleet deployment.
• Experience with liquid-cooled and/or high-density rack architectures rack level high power distribution or optical interconnect programs.
• Familiarity with the chip-package-system interface and coordinating tightly with a silicon team.
• Experience with datacenter integration deployment and fleet-scale reliability/RAS programs.
• Practical experience using AI tools in your own workflow and clear ideas about where they help and where they dont.
• BS/MS in EE CE ME or a related field or equivalent experience.

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.