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.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a deep technical advisor to high-potential startups building in the physical world, whether Claude sits inside the product they sell or inside the way they design, test, and run their own hardware
- Work hands-on with startup software and hardware teams through pair programming and architecture reviews
- Develop prototypes and technical documentation, including evaluation suites, benchmarks grounded in real engineering tasks, AI engineering techniques, and architecture diagrams
- Create reference implementations and sample code that many companies can adopt, for example integrating Claude with CAD, simulation, design tools, or industrial automation
- Collaborate closely with Applied AI Architects to maintain context and continuity across customer engagements
- Identify patterns across engagements, including challenges like reading drawings, 3D geometry, board layout and routing, GD&T, latency and on-premise constraints, and physical safety
- Create technical content for startup audiences including documentation, tutorials, and sample code
- Foster community engagement through hackathons, webinars, technical office hours, and startup-focused events
- Travel to customer sites for workshops, implementation guidance, and relationship building
Requirements
- Deep engineering experience in a physical discipline such as mechanical, electrical, aerospace, robotics, semiconductor, manufacturing, or civil engineering
- 4+ years of technical experience as a software engineer, ML or research engineer, robotics or controls engineer, hardware or systems engineer, or technical founder
- Production experience building LLM-powered applications, including prompting, context engineering, agent architectures, evaluation frameworks, and deployment at scale
- Experience with startups or high-growth companies
- Strong technical communication skills
- Collaborative approach and ability to context-switch across domains
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
Conditions
- Annual salary: $280,000 - $320,000 USD