Technical Program Manager, Compute

Job Application for Technical Program Manager, Compute at Anthropic

Technical Program Manager, Compute San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | 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 on the Compute team, you will help drive the planning, coordination, and execution of programs that keep Anthropic's compute infrastructure running efficiently at scale. Our compute fleet is the foundation on which every model training run, evaluation, and inference workload depends.

You'll join a small, high-impact TPM team and take ownership of critical workstreams across the compute lifecycle, from how supply is procured and brought online, to how capacity is allocated and utilized across teams. The exact focus will depend on your strengths and the team's evolving needs.

You'll partner with Infrastructure, Systems, Research, Finance, and Capacity Engineering to shape the processes, tooling, and coordination mechanisms that allow Anthropic to move fast while managing an increasingly complex compute environment.

Responsibilities:

Own and drive critical programs across the compute lifecycle, coordinating execution across multiple engineering, research, and operations teams

Build and maintain operational visibility into the compute fleet, ensuring the organization has a clear picture of supply, demand, utilization, and health

Lead cross-functional coordination for compute transitions: bringing new capacity online, migrating workloads, and managing decommissions across cloud providers and hardware platforms

Partner with engineering and research leadership to navigate competing priorities and drive alignment on how compute resources are planned, allocated, and used

Identify and close operational gaps across the compute pipeline, whether through new tooling, improved processes, or better cross-team communication

Own trade-off discussions between utilization, cost, latency, and reliability, synthesizing inputs from technical and business stakeholders and communicating decisions to leadership

Develop and improve the processes and frameworks the team uses to plan, track, and execute compute programs at increasing scale and complexity

You may be a good fit if you:

Have 7+ years of technical program management experience in infrastructure, platform engineering, or compute-intensive environments

Have led complex, cross-functional programs involving multiple engineering teams with competing priorities and ambiguous requirements

Have experience working with research or ML teams and translating their needs into operational plans and technical requirements

Are comfortable diving deep into technical details (cloud infrastructure, cluster management, job scheduling, resource orchestration) while maintaining program-level visibility

Thrive in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where you need to define scope and build processes from the ground up

Have strong communication skills and can engage credibly with engineers, researchers, finance, and executive leadership

Have a track record of building trust with engineering teams and driving changes through influence rather than authority

Strong candidates may also have:

Experience managing compute capacity across multiple cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) or hybrid cloud/on-premises environments

Familiarity with job scheduling, resource orchestration, or workload management systems (Kubernetes, Slurm, Borg, YARN, or custom schedulers)

Experience with GPU or accelerator infrastructure, including the unique challenges of large-scale ML training and inference workloads

Built or improved observability for infrastructure systems: dashboards, alerting, efficiency metrics, or cost attribution

Capacity planning experience including demand forecasting, cost modeling, or hardware lifecycle management

Scaled through hypergrowth in AI/ML, HPC, or large-scale cloud environments

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.

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