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Salary: GBP 225,000 - 255,000 / annual
Anthropic is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to serve as a trusted technical advisor to high-growth, tech-forward companies building on the Claude Developer Platform. In this role, you will lead deep technical engagements with customer engineering teams, providing hands-on support including pair programming, architecture reviews, and code contributions that accelerate their development of AI-powered products.
You will develop prototypes, evaluation frameworks, and technical documentation that enable customers to build and scale with Claude. Working closely with Applied AI Architects, Account Executives, and Anthropic's Product and Engineering teams, you'll guide customers through complex technical implementations, advising on LLM architecture, agent design, and deployment strategies.
Key responsibilities include:
- Serving as a deep technical advisor to high-growth companies, working alongside them to build innovative AI use cases
- Hands-on collaboration with customer engineering teams: pair programming, architecture reviews, and code contributions
- Developing prototypes, evaluation suites, and technical documentation including AI engineering techniques and architecture diagrams
- Collaborating with Applied AI Architects to maintain context across customer engagements
- Identifying patterns across engagements and contributing insights back to Product and Engineering teams
- Creating technical content for developer audiences including documentation, tutorials, and sample code
- Fostering community engagement through hackathons, webinars, technical office hours, and developer-focused events
- Traveling to customer sites for workshops, implementation support, and relationship building
Anthropics's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that are safe and beneficial for users and society. The team comprises researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.
Requirements:
- 4+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, or technical founder
- Experience in a customer-facing or pre-sales technical role, partnering with customers to scope, design, and deliver solutions
- Production experience building LLM-powered applications, including prompting, context engineering, agent architectures, evaluation frameworks, and deployment at scale
- Strong programming skills with proficiency in Python and experience building production applications
- Experience working with high-growth, tech-forward companies
- Ability to context-switch across industries (healthcare, fintech, etc.) and use cases
- Builder credibility that earns trust with technical founders and engineering leaders; demonstrated track record of shipping products
- Strong technical communication skills with ability to translate complex AI concepts into architectural decisions and actionable implementation plans
- Experience facilitating technical workshops, hackathons, or developer-focused events
- Passion for making powerful technology safe and beneficial
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience in a field relevant to the role
Hybrid arrangement: currently expects all staff to be in office at least 25% of the time, though some roles may require more. Visa sponsorship available.
