About the company
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.
Responsibilities
- Own technical strategy for a key account or vertical, in partnership with account and product teams.
- Guide technical architecture and design decisions across multiple concurrent workstreams.
- Lead discovery and advisory engagements independently, shaping scope and technical strategy before a build starts.
- Lead engagements delivered with partners, setting the architecture and the quality bar for work you don't build yourself.
- Review designs and unblock other FDEs on hard technical calls.
- Represent Anthropic to senior technical and business stakeholders, including VPs and C-level, to align on strategy and de-risk delivery.
- Own your engagements end to end: scope the work, sequence it, unblock it, anticipate security and procurement gates, and deliver production systems the customer can operate.
- Work within customer systems to build production applications and agent components with Claude, and hand over systems the customer can run.
- Identify and codify repeatable deployment patterns and contribute insights back to our Product and Engineering teams.
- Build long term relationships with customers and proactively identify new opportunities for AI deployment throughout the lifecycle of an engagement.
- Travel frequently (25%) to customer sites to build in person with customers.
- Be a champion for Anthropic's mission in the field.
Requirements
- Deep system design and problem decomposition skills.
- Experience in a senior technical, customer facing role such as Forward Deployed Engineer, or as a Tech Lead with consulting or product experience.
- A track record as the person a team turns to on ambiguous technical calls.
- A track record of directly influencing senior technical and business stakeholders, including VP and C-level, in complex organizations.
- Extensive experience building and operating production systems. Hands-on experience with LLMs and agents is expected.
- Strong programming skills with proficiency in Python (and ideally in one or more additional languages like TypeScript, Java, etc), experience shipping production applications, and everyday use of AI coding tools.
- Experience leading advisory and architecture-review engagements as well as hands-on builds, and running them end to end.
- High agency with an ability to navigate ambiguity present in complex organizations, and the learning velocity to pick up new domains and tools fast.
- Passion for advancing safe, beneficial AI systems through creative technical applications.
- A background in financial services, healthcare/life sciences, or another enterprise vertical are nice to have.
Conditions
- Annual Salary: $280,000 - $320,000 USD
- Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time.