# Engineering Manager, Search

Hiring organization: [Menlo Ventures Portfolio](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/menlo-ventures-portfolio)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/902cc93f-5204-4ca9-9fbf-a857d23a9e57

Listed on Menlo Ventures Portfolio's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: New York, NY
- Salary: 320000 – 405000 USD per year

## Summary

Lead Anthropic's search platform team, managing engineers who build the indexing, retrieval, and ranking systems that power Claude's web search capabilities. This role combines engineering leadership with hands-on technical depth and product judgment, suited for someone with direct experience operating search systems at scale who can balance multiple competing demands across product, research, and infrastructure.

_Our summary, not Menlo Ventures Portfolio's wording._

## Skills named

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## Required

- Experience managing engineering teams with hiring and team growth
- Direct experience building or operating search systems at scale
- Technical depth to review designs and read code credibly
- Product mindset and ability to make product decisions
- Experience running high-scale, latency-sensitive production systems
- Cross-functional collaboration skills across product, research, and infrastructure
- Experience recruiting and closing senior engineers
- Interest in AI safety

## Nice to have

- Understanding search economics: index freshness, storage costs, quality tradeoffs
- Background in embeddings, ranking models, or ML-based retrieval
- Experience migrating traffic from vendor to in-house infrastructure
- Exposure to LLM products and large-scale training and inference retrieval demands

Apply on Menlo Ventures Portfolio's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5371065008