Product Manager, Compute Platform

Anthropic

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 Product Manager focused on Compute Platform, you’ll partner with Infrastructure, Compute Operations, Engineering, Finance & Strategy, and Research to build the scheduling, orchestration, and capacity management systems that power Anthropic’s compute infrastructure—the foundation on which every model training run, evaluation, and inference workload depends: - Partner with Infrastructure to build the systems that determine how jobs are scheduled, prioritized, and allocated across Anthropic’s growing fleet of GPU and accelerator clusters—ensuring the right workloads run on the right hardware at the right time. - Your work directly impacts cluster utilization, cost efficiency, and researcher velocity: defining the semantic layer for job scheduling, establishing resource guarantees, and making the trade-offs that keep our infrastructure running at peak capacity. - You’ll drive the evolution of our compute platform to support increasingly diverse workloads—from large-scale training runs and fine-tuning jobs to real-time inference and batch evaluation—each with distinct scheduling requirements, priority levels, and resource profiles. - You will define and own the strategy and roadmap across job scheduling primitives, capacity allocation policies, preemption and fairness frameworks, quota management, and the observability tooling that gives engineering and leadership confidence in how compute resources are being used. Responsibilities: - Deeply understand the needs of internal customers across Research, Infrastructure, Product, and Finance—from researchers who need guaranteed resources for multi-week training runs to platform teams managing inference workloads with strict latency SLAs. - Define and iterate on the semantic layer for job scheduling: the abstractions, priority tiers, resource classes, and preemption policies that govern how work flows through our compute clusters. - Partnering with engineering leads to design scheduling capabilities that maximize cluster utilization while honoring resource guarantees—ensuring jobs have the right prerequisites (data, checkpoints, hardware affinity) validated before launch to avoid wasted compute. - Drive product strategy and roadmap for compute capacity management, including quota systems, fairness policies, bin-packing optimizations, and gang-scheduling for distributed workloads. - Own the trade-off framework between utilization efficiency, job latency, cost, and reliability—making transparent prioritization decisions and communicating them clearly to senior leadership. - Collaborate with the Capacity Strategy & Operations team on capacity planning models, demand forecasting, and cost-to-serve analytics that inform infrastructure investment decisions. - Build and champion observability tools and dashboards that provide real-time visibility into cluster health, queue depth, scheduling efficiency, and resource waste. You may be a good fit if you have: - 7+ years of product management experience, with deep exposure to compute infrastructure, distributed systems, or scheduling/orchestration platforms - Experience taking technical infrastructure products from infancy to scale—you’ve built something from the ground up and grown it to serve demanding internal or external customers - Track record of building platform products that balance the needs of multiple users and stakeholders—you’re comfortable making prioritization trade-offs between utilization, latency, cost, and fairness, and communicating them clearly - Ability to internalize complex technical systems (job schedulers, cluster managers, resource orchestrators) and translate that understanding into a comprehensive product vision - Fluent across functions—you’re equally credible discussing scheduling algorithms with engineers, capacity economics with finance, and infrastructure strategy with leadership - Strong instinct for connecting technical decisions to business outcomes: every percentage point of cluster utilization has measurable impact - Scrappy and resourceful—you do what it takes to get things done in a fast-moving environment Strong candidates may have: - Built or scaled job scheduling, resource orchestration, or workload management systems for large-scale compute clusters (e.g., Kubernetes, Slurm, Borg, YARN, or custom schedulers). - Deep familiarity with GPU/accelerator scheduling challenges, including gang-scheduling, topology-aware placement, preemption, and hardware affinity constraints. - Experience defining and enforcing SLAs and resource guarantees for compute workloads—including mechanisms to validate job prerequisites (data readiness, checkpoint availability, hardware compatibility) before scheduling to avoid wasted resources. - Capacity planning experience across cloud and on-premises infrastructure, including cost modeling, demand forecasting, and vendor management for compute procurement. - Scaled through hypergrowth in compute-intensive environments (AI/ML, HPC, large-scale cloud infrastructure). - Experience with observability and efficiency tooling for distributed infrastructure—building dashboards, automation, and governance workflows that drive utilization and cost accountability. 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: $305,000 - $385,000 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 links—visit 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.