Applied AI Engineer

About the Role

As an Applied AI Engineer at Anthropic, you will guide customers from technical discovery through successful deployment. You will combine deep engineering expertise with customer-facing skills to help customers understand the potential of working with LLMs and build innovative solutions that address complex business challenges while maintaining our high standards for safety and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical advisor to Anthropic customers as they deploy new products & workflows with our models: from discovery through deployment, coordinating internally across multiple teams to drive customer success
• Partner with account executives to deeply understand customer product requirements and architect technical solutions, ensuring alignment between business objectives and technical implementation
• Guide technical architecture decisions and help customers build state-of-the-art products & workflows with LLMs via API
• Develop customized pilots, prototypes, and evaluation suites that make the case for customer deployment of our models into customer products and workflows via our API
• Lead hands-on technical workshops and code reviews with customer engineering teams
• Identify common design patterns and contribute insights back to our Product and Engineering teams
• Maintain strong knowledge of the latest developments in LLM capabilities, implementation patterns, and AI product development stacks
• Travel occasionally to customer sites for workshops, implementation support, and building relationships
• Attend conferences, lead speaking engagements, write blog posts and white papers on topics surrounding the AI space

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in a technical role such as Customer Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer or Software Engineer with a desire to work closely with customers
• Production experience with LLMs including advanced prompt engineering, agent development, evaluation frameworks, and deployment at scale
• Strong programming skills with proficiency in Python and experience building production applications
• Expertise working with common LLM implementation patterns, prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, agent frameworks, and retrieval frameworks.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and execute across domains with intellectual openness, finding simple solutions to complex problems
• High cooperation mindset for cross-organizational collaboration, balancing competing priorities with integrity
• Passion for advancing safe, beneficial AI systems through creative technical applications
• Exceptional communication skills to convey technical concepts to diverse stakeholders while maintaining a low ego and collaborative approach

Logistics

• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
• Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
• Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
• Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren’t able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

How We’re Different

• We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact , advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI , rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles.
• We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science.
• We’re an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time.
• As such, we greatly value communication skills.

Come Work With Us!

• Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco.
• We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.
• Guidance on Candidates’ AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.