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
We're looking for an Engineering Manager to build and lead our Privacy Engineering team:a small, high-leverage group responsible for designing and operating the privacy infrastructure that protects user data across our AI systems. You'll have an outsized impact in shaping how Anthropic builds world-class privacy into Claude from the ground up.
This is a role with extraordinary scope and leverage. You'll own privacy engineering for Anthropic end-to-end.The work that spans privacy-preserving architectures for AI training and inference, foundational data governance and lifecycle systems, and the automated controls that turn complex regulation into engineering reality. You'll lead a team of talented privacy engineers that builds and operates the platform and infra frameworks underpinning Anthropic's privacy and compliance posture. Your job is to scale the team and its charter as Anthropic grows. .
Working at the intersection of privacy engineering, AI safety, and distributed systems, your team will solve novel challenges in protecting user data at scale, handling billions of conversations while maintaining model quality and research velocity. If owning the whole problem and having an outsized impact on how a frontier AI lab protects its users sounds compelling, this role might be for you.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and lead the team: Recruit, develop, and retain a team of exceptional privacy engineers; establish team charter, practices, and priorities as the team matures
- Drive technical strategy: Partner with technical leads, researchers, and legal to set direction for privacy infrastructure across training, inference, and product surfaces: data governance and policy enforcement, deletion and retention at scale, encryption and key management, audit and access transparency, and ML-based PII detection and redaction.
- Build foundational privacy infrastructure: Guide the team in building automated data discovery, classification, access controls, audit logging, and lifecycle management systems, plus data governance platforms for tracking lineage, purpose limitation, and retention across distributed AI systems
- Translate regulation into engineering: Ensure the team turns complex regulatory requirements (GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, EU AI Act) into actionable technical implementations and automated compliance controls
- Lead privacy reviews at scale: Oversee technical privacy reviews and threat modeling for new AI models and features, identifying risks and architecting scalable mitigations