TPM Manager, Infrastructure

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.

About the Role

Anthropics Infrastructure organization is responsible for the systems that train our models serve our products and support our engineering teams. That includes datacenter operations capacity planning across cloud providers and our own facilities accelerator cluster management production serving infrastructure developer tooling data pipelines and networking. Its a lot of surface area and the demands on it are growing fast.

Were hiring a TPM leader to own program management across this whole ecosystem from compute provisioning through to production workloads. Were bringing up new datacenters scaling multi-cloud compute across AWS GCP and Azure managing datacenter construction and building the software infrastructure to keep pace. The team is growing very quickly and were looking for a senior leader with experience at scale to build and scale this team to support Anthropics rapid growth. Youll report to the Head of TPM partnering closely with various engineering leaders on technical strategy roadmapping and aligning TPM support where it is most impactful.

Youll personally drive 23 critical programs while leading your teamin parallel. This is a role where you need to be comfortable doing the work yourself before you can hand it off.

What youll do:

IC Program Leadership

• Own and drive 23 of the highest-priority programs across infrastructure while you build the team

• Run the actual programsdatacenter bring-up timelines capacity scaling plans infrastructure migrations cross-team reliability efforts or whatever the most pressing needs are

• Build the processes and playbooks as you gofigure out what works by doing it then codify it for the team

• Earn credibility with engineering leads through solid execution not just strategy

Team Building & Development

• Set the standard for what good TPM work looks like in this domain through your own output

• Coach and develop TPMs

• Transition programs to your team as you hire

• Grow the team with excellent TPMs by defining roles writing JDs sourcing candidates and closing hires

Planning & Prioritization

• Work with various engineering leads to identify work that would most benefit from TPM support

• Make real tradeoffs about what to staff vs. what to skip given limited TPM capacity during the build phase

• Maintain portfolio-level visibility across programsstatus risks dependencies blockers

• Represent the team in planning cycles and leadership reviews

Cross-functional Coordination

• Coordinate across Infrastructure and partner teams (Research Product Security Finance Legal) on programs that span organizational boundaries

• Drive alignment on programs that cross the hardware/software linee.g. capacity plans that feed into training schedules or efficiency work that spans accelerator kernels and serving systems

• Own executive communication on program status risks and resource needs

You May Be a Good Fit If You:

• Have 10 years of experience in technical program management with 7 years directly managing TPMs and ideally some experience leading larger TPM organizations

• Have built a team or function from scratch beforeyou know the difference between hiring for a defined role vs. figuring out what the roles should be

• Have scaled TPM teams to support rapidly-growing fast-moving company environments

• Have worked across physical and software infrastructuredatacenters networking hardware ops distributed systems cloud platforms developer tooling. You dont need to be deep in all of it but you need to be conversant enough to ask the right questions and spot the real risks.

• Have run large-scale compute or infrastructure programscapacity planning cluster deployments datacenter build-outs cloud migrations or similar

• Can communicate complex programs clearly to senior leadership without losing the important details

• Are good at context-switching between doing the work and managing people and dont see the IC work as beneath you

• Are comfortable making staffing and prioritization decisions without perfect information

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.

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