Technical Program Manager, Pacing

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

Pacing is Anthropic's work to make sure that, as AI capabilities advance, enough time and effort goes into making them safe. It covers the safety commitments we make and carry out ourselves, the public policy we develop and support, and the research and communication that help people understand how quickly AI is progressing and what that could mean.

We're hiring a Technical Program Manager to run Pacing. It spans many projects led by people across Safety, Research, Policy, Legal, Communications, and Engineering, most of whom have other responsibilities too. You'll make sure each project has an owner, a clear outcome, and a date, and that leaders have high visibility and can make tradeoff decisions. You'll work closely with the team responsible for our Responsible Scaling Policy and support every project lead in delivering on their commitments.

The questions and strategies relevant to this program will change rapidly as the frontier evolves. You'll need enough technical depth to drive discussions about model training, evaluations, and compute, and the judgment to identify which decisions belong with cross-functional partners and which you can make yourself. We're looking for a generalist who can ship quickly and iteratively and drive accountability towards high-level, ambiguous objectives.

Key responsibilities

• Own the Pacing program end to end, keeping one accurate view of projects, owners, milestones, dependencies, and gaps that drives action from leadership and project leads

• Turn strategy from executive sponsors into scoped projects with measurable outcomes and timelines for execution, and drive concrete proposals to decisions

• Run the operating rhythm, including working sessions with project leads, regular written updates, and effective executive reviews, and follow decisions and action items through to completion

• Work with the Responsible Scaling Policy team and researchers to define the evidence and sign-off a model needs at key points in training and deployment, and make those reviews a dependable part of how we work

• Track the public and internal commitments Anthropic makes on pacing, and sequence the work, publications, and events behind them with Policy and Communications

• Partner with Legal throughout the lifespan of each project, and operate with high integrity on confidential and sensitive work

• Define how progress is measured, report against it candidly, and recommend which projects and practices to continue, change, or stop

• Use Claude to build automations to allow teams to have broader and deeper impact

Minimum qualifications

• Experience leading multiple complex technical programs that span organizations and involve engineering or research teams, from ambiguous goals through delivery

• Strong program management skills, including program planning, milestone and dependency tracking, and risk management across many concurrent projects

• Technical fluency sufficient to identify risks and challenge tradeoffs in how frontier AI models are trained, evaluated, and deployed

• Working knowledge of AI safety and the main debates about how frontier AI should be developed and governed

• A track record of delivering through senior leaders and teams who don't report to you, including when it meant changing how they work

• Experience preparing decisions for executives, including framing options, making a recommendation, and recording the outcome

• Sound judgment and discretion with confidential and sensitive information

Preferred qualifications

• Experience at a frontier AI developer, a government AI institute, an independent evaluator, or an AI safety or governance research organization

• Hands-on experience with frontier AI safety work, such as safety frameworks, safety cases, risk reports, model evaluations, or reviews of model training or deployment

• Familiarity with how AI progress is measured, including compute, capability trends, and the use of AI to speed up AI research

• Experience delivering programs that combine technical work with public policy, or that bring together experts from different organizations

• Experience managing published commitments or high-visibility public releases

• Experience building a program from zero and reshaping it as the strategy evolved

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.

For roles performing work in California: We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records or criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act.

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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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.