Applied AI Engineer Startups Physical AI
AI safety and research company building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems, including the Claude product family and developer platform.
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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 advise startups building physical-world products on using Claude in engineering, manufacturing, and operations. You will work hands-on with software and hardware teams, build prototypes and reusable technical resources, develop evaluations, create technical content, support community events, and travel to customer sites.
Requirements
- Physical engineering experience
- 4+ years of technical experience
- LLM-powered application development or applied AI engineering experience
- Prompting
- Context engineering
- Agent architecture
- Evaluation framework development
- Deployment at scale
- Startup or high-growth company experience
- Technical communication
Responsibilities
- Advise physical AI startups on Claude-powered engineering use cases
- Work with software and hardware teams through pair programming and architecture reviews
- Develop prototypes, evaluation suites, benchmarks, technical documentation, and architecture diagrams
- Create reusable reference implementations and sample code
- Identify AI deployment patterns for physical systems and develop repeatable evaluations and solutions
- Create technical documentation, tutorials, and sample code
- Foster community engagement through hackathons, webinars, office hours, and startup events
- Travel to customer sites for workshops and implementation guidance
Benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation
- Parental leave
- Flexible working hours