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Technical Program Manager, Inference Performance

San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA

About Anthropic

Anthropic's 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

As a Technical Program Manager for Inference, you'll be the critical bridge between our inference systems and the broader organization. You'll drive strategic initiatives across inference runtime and accelerator performancecoordinating model launches, managing cross-platform dependencies, and ensuring reliability across multiple hardware targets. This role is essential for keeping our most contended infrastructure teams shipping effectively while Research, Product, and Safety all depend on their output.

Responsibilities:

• Systems Integration & Coordination: Lead cross-functional initiatives for new infrastructure integration, establishing clear ownership, timelines, and communication channels between teams. Drive end-to-end planning for major infrastructure transitions including platform modernization and new tech adoption.
• Performance & Efficiency: Partner with engineering teams to identify optimization opportunities, track performance metrics, and prioritize work that unlocks capacity gains. Coordinate across runtime and accelerator layers to ensure efficiency wins ship without compromising reliability.
• Launch Coordination: Drive end-to-end readiness for model and feature launches across multiple hardware platforms. Establish processes for cross-platform validation, manage launch timelines, and ensure smooth handoffs between runtime, accelerator, and downstream teams.
• Strategic Planning: Own and prioritize the inference deployment roadmap, working closely with engineering leadership to prioritize initiatives and manage dependencies. Provide visibility into upcoming changes and their organizational impact.
• Stakeholder Communication: Build strong relationships across research, engineering, and product teams to understand requirements and constraints. Translate technical complexities into clear updates for leadership and ensure alignment on priorities and timelines.
• Process Improvement: Identify inefficiencies in current workflows and drive systematic improvements. Establish metrics and dashboards to track infrastructure health, capacity utilization, and deployment success rates.

You May Be a Good Fit If You:

• Have several years of experience in technical program management, with proven success delivering complex infrastructure programs, preferably in ML/AI systems or large-scale distributed systems
• Have deep technical understanding of inference systems, compilers, or hardware accelerators to engage substantively with engineers and identify technical risks.
• Excel at creating structure and processes in ambiguous environments, bringing clarity to complex cross-team initiatives
• Have strong stakeholder management skills and can build trust with both technical and non-technical partners
• Are comfortable navigating competing priorities and using data to drive technical decisions
• Have experience with infrastructure scaling initiatives, hardware integrations, or deployment governance
• Thrive in fast-paced environments and can balance strategic planning with tactical execution
• Are passionate about AI infrastructure and understand the unique challenges of deploying and scaling large language models

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

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. For sales roles, the range provided is the role's On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary:

$290,000 - $365,000 USD

Logistics

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

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 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.

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 you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're 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. Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any linksvisit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.

How We're Different

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. We're 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.

Come Work With Us!

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 about our policy for using AI in our application process.