Applied AI Engineer

AI safety and research company building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems, including the Claude product family and developer platform.

Series F+Recently funded0 current maintainers0 active leadsTeam intelligence

Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026

San Francisco, United States
About Anthropic

Anthropic PBC develops frontier AI systems and deploys them through Claude products and the Claude Platform, with a stated focus on safety, interpretability, and steerability.

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About the Role

You will serve as a technical advisor as customers build and deploy products and workflows using Claude. You will architect solutions, develop pilots, prototypes, and evaluation suites, and lead technical workshops and code reviews. You will identify reusable implementation patterns, contribute product insights, create AI-focused content, and occasionally travel to customer sites.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience as a Customer Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Software Engineer, or similar technical role
  • Production experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, agent development, evaluation frameworks, and scaled deployment
  • Python proficiency and experience building production applications
  • Expertise in LLM implementation patterns, prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, agent frameworks, and retrieval frameworks
  • Technical communication skills

Responsibilities

  • Advise customers from technical discovery through deployment
  • Architect technical solutions with account executives and customers
  • Guide LLM architecture decisions and API implementation
  • Develop pilots, prototypes, and evaluation suites
  • Lead technical workshops and code reviews
  • Identify common design patterns and share insights with product and engineering teams
  • Maintain knowledge of LLM capabilities and AI product development
  • Travel occasionally to customer sites
  • Lead speaking engagements and create blog posts and white papers

Benefits

  • Visa sponsorship efforts
  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation
  • Parental leave
  • Flexible working hours