MP
$320,000 – $405,000
Listed on Menlo Ventures Portfolio’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
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. The full posting is on their site.
What they ask for
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