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Salary: USD 200,000 - 320,000 / annual
Anthropic is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to serve as a technical advisor to enterprise customers deploying Claude API into their products. You will work at the intersection of customer success and product engineering, guiding digital-native businesses through technical discovery, architecture design, and production deployment of LLM-powered applications.
Key responsibilities include: acting as a specialist technical advisor throughout the customer lifecycle from discovery to deployment; partnering with account executives and solutions architects to translate business requirements into technical solutions; influencing architecture decisions by developing customized pilots, prototypes, and evaluation frameworks; leading hands-on technical workshops and code reviews with customer engineering teams; identifying common design patterns and contributing insights back to Anthropic's product and engineering teams; creating scalable documentation on LLM prompting, evaluation, agentic systems, and architecture techniques; maintaining expertise in latest LLM capabilities and AI product development stacks; occasional travel to customer sites for workshops and relationship building; and representing Anthropic at conferences and through speaking engagements, blog posts, and white papers.
You should have 4+ years in technical roles such as Forward Deployed Engineer, Software Engineer, or Technical Product Manager, with a strong desire to work closely with customers. Technical founders are also encouraged to apply. Required qualifications include production experience with LLMs (advanced prompt engineering, agent development, evaluation frameworks, deployment at scale), strong programming skills in Python or TypeScript, ability to navigate ambiguity and execute across domains, high collaboration mindset, and exceptional communication skills to convey technical concepts to diverse stakeholders.
The role requires 3 days in office per week and is based in one of three locations: San Francisco, New York City, or Seattle.
