Opening. This role exists to drive transformational AI adoption in the national security space. We're looking for a Solutions Architect to work directly with our most strategic national security customers and partners to drive transformational AI adoption.
What you'll do
As a member of the National Security Policy team at Anthropic, you will work directly with our most strategic national security customers and partners to drive transformational AI adoption. You will leverage your technical skills to architect innovative solutions that address our customers' business needs, meet their technical requirements, and provide a high degree of reliability and safety.
In collaboration with the Sales, Product, Research, and Engineering teams, you’ll help national security partners develop strategies and implementation plans to integrate leading-edge AI systems into their mission. You will employ your excellent communication skills to explain and demonstrate complex solutions persuasively to technical and non-technical audiences alike. You also will play a critical role in identifying opportunities to innovate and differentiate our AI systems, while maintaining our best-in-class safety standards. We expect our team members to operate autonomously, thrive under ambiguity, and represent Anthropic at the highest level in customer environments.
What you need
- Active TS/SCI security clearance (required)
- 2+ years of experience as a Customer Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, or Platform Engineer within the National Security space
- Exceptional ability to build relationships with and communicate technical concepts to diverse stakeholders to include senior executives, engineering & IT teams, and more
- Experience in the defense, technology, or cybersecurity industries
- Experience designing novel and innovative solutions for technical platforms in a developing mission area
- Strong technical aptitude to partner with engineers and strong proficiency in at least one programming language (Python preferred)
- Understanding of and experience with LLM fundamentals
- The ability to navigate and execute amidst ambiguity, and to flex into different domains based on the business problem at hand, finding simple, easy-to-understand solutions
- Excitement for engaging in cross-organizational collaboration, working through trade-offs, and balancing competing priorities
- A love of teaching, mentoring, and helping others succeed
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, able to convey complicated topics in easily understandable terms to a diverse set of external and internal stakeholders
