Technical Program Manager, External Evaluators

About this role

Lead Anthropic’s external evaluator program, building partnerships and guiding evaluators from initial scoping through publication of independent reports. Develop scalable processes and technical access controls that balance evaluator needs with security and confidentiality, and ensure findings translate into accountable research and engineering work.

About the company

Anthropic builds reliable and interpretable AI systems, including the Claude family of models, for businesses and developers. The company focuses on AI safety research and practical AI assistants for enterprise and consumer use.

What you'll do

• Own evaluator relationships and the pipeline of future partners
• Manage each evaluator engagement from scoping and contracting through onboarding, access, review, and publication
• Define evaluator tiers and information-access policies
• Coordinate fast, documented decisions on access and information requests
• Design evaluator access controls and environments with Security, IT, and infrastructure teams
• Scope evaluations and plan model access, data, tooling, compute, and capacity
• Translate evaluator findings into research and engineering work with clear owners and timelines
• Build program tooling, share regular updates, and improve practices through feedback and retrospectives

What we're looking for

• Experience leading complex technical programs with engineering or research teams
• Experience managing external relationships, including scoping, contracting, expectations, and disagreements
• Strong planning, milestone tracking, dependency management, and risk management skills
• Technical fluency in frontier AI training, evaluation, and monitoring
• Sound judgment and discretion with confidential information

Benefits

• Generous vacation and parental leave
• Flexible working hours
• Optional equity donation matching