Applied AI Engineer Public Sector
1 day agoSeniorSalary: 280K - 320KWashington DC, USAOnsiteForward Deployed EngineerJobs by Anthropic
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AI safety and research company building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems, including the Claude product family and developer platform.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
San Francisco, United States
Funding history
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.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will act as a trusted technical advisor to national security customers, from discovery through deployment. You will develop pilots, prototypes, evaluations, workshops, and technical content while guiding architecture and integrations in secure government environments.
Requirements
- TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph
- US intelligence community
- Python
- TypeScript
- Production application development
- Cybersecurity
- Vulnerability research
- Reverse engineering
- ICS security
- OT security
- Cryptography
- Cryptanalysis
- Intelligence analysis
- ISR
- SIGINT
- GEOINT
- Mission system
- Weapons system
- CBRN
- Nonproliferation
- RMF
- ATO
- Cross-domain solution
- LLM
- Prompt engineering
- Agent development
- Evaluation framework
- Transcript analysis
- MCP
- Cloud architecture
- Enterprise integration
- Artificial intelligence
- Machine learning
- Data science
Responsibilities
- Advise national security mission programs from discovery through adoption
- Support customers building with Claude Code, Claude API, and Claude for Enterprise
- Translate mission requirements into technical solutions
- Develop pilots, prototypes, and evaluation suites
- Build mission-specific evaluation frameworks
- Lead technical workshops and code reviews
- Share design patterns with Product and Engineering
- Deliver technical deep dives and executive briefings
- Work on-site in secure government facilities
Benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation
- Parental leave
- Flexible working hours
- Office space