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Applied AI Engineer
full-time
mid
About this role
About Anthropic
Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.
About the role
As an Applied AI Engineer at Anthropic, you will be a trusted technical advisor helping tech-forward companies build on the Claude Developer Platform as they grow and scale. You'll lead deep technical engagements, partnering directly with engineering teams to help them develop their products on top of Claude - advising on implementation, agent design, and working alongside them to build at the frontier of AI. Working closely with Applied AI Architects, Account Executives, and Anthropic's Product and Engineering teams, you'll guide customers through deep technical engagements. You'll leverage your AI engineering expertise to develop custom evaluation frameworks, design scalable architectures, and create the technical resources that enable tech-forward businesses to succeed with Claude.
Responsibilities
Serve as a deep technical advisor to high-growth, tech-forward companies, working alongside them to build innovative use cases that push the boundaries of AI
Work hands-on with customer engineering teams: pair programming, architecture reviews, and code contributions that accelerate their development
Develop prototypes and technical documentation—including evaluation suites, AI engineering techniques, and architecture diagrams—that enable customers to build and scale with Claude
Collaborate closely with Applied AI Architects to maintain context and continuity across customer engagements
Identify patterns across engagements and contribute insights back to Product, Engineering, and the broader Applied AI team
Create technical content for developer audiences including documentation, tutorials, and sample code
Foster community engagement through hackathons, webinars, technical office hours, and developer-focused events
Travel to customer sites for workshops, implementation support, and relationship building
You may be a good fit if you have
4+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, or technical founder
Experience in a customer-facing or pre-sales technical role - partnering with customers to scope, design, and deliver solutions
Production experience building LLM-powered applications, including prompting, context engineering, agent architectures, evaluation frameworks, and deployment at scale
Strong programming skills with proficiency in Python and experience building production applications
Experience working with high-growth, tech-forward companies
Ability to context-switch across industries (healthcare, fintech, etc.) and use cases
Builder credibility that earns trust with technical founders and engineering leaders - you've shipped products and can speak from experience
Strong technical communication skills with the ability to translate complex AI concepts into architectural decisions and actionable implementation plans
Experience facilitating technical workshops, hackathons, or developer-focused events
Passion for making powerful technology safe and beneficial
The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.
For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.
Annual Salary:
£225,000 — £240,000 GBP
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.
We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous soc