Forward Deployed 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 9/24/2026

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 embed with strategic customers to build production applications using Claude models. You will deliver deployment artifacts, support enterprise implementations, identify repeatable patterns, and translate customer needs into safe and reliable AI solutions. You will maintain customer relationships and travel to customer sites as needed.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience in a technical customer-facing role or software engineering with consulting experience
  • Production experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, agent development, evaluation frameworks, and deployment at scale
  • Proficiency in Python
  • Experience shipping production applications
  • Strong customer communication and cross-organizational collaboration skills
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, and experience

Responsibilities

  • Build production applications within customer systems using Claude models
  • Deliver MCP servers, sub-agents, and agent skills for production workflows
  • Provide deployment support for enterprise implementations
  • Identify and codify repeatable deployment patterns
  • Maintain knowledge of LLM capabilities and AI product-development practices
  • Build long-term customer relationships and identify AI deployment opportunities
  • Travel to customer sites, estimated at 25%
  • Represent Anthropic in customer environments

Benefits

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