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Anthropic · San Francisco/New York City/Seattle · Hybrid
Applied AI Engineer, Enterprise Tech
1/9/2026
Description
About the role:
As a member of the Applied AI team at Anthropic, you will be a technical Product Engineer focused on becoming a trusted technical advisor to Digital Native Businesses - technology companies adopting the Claude API into their core products. You will work closely with customer product and engineering teams as they ship new products powered by Claude: advising on architecture design decisions, developing evaluation frameworks, and guiding customers through the most cutting-edge implementation patterns for LLMs.
Working closely with our Sales, Product, and Engineering teams, you'll guide a focused portfolio of customers from technical discovery through successful deployment. You'll combine deep engineering expertise with customer-facing skills to help customers unlock the full potential of Claude APIs and move their products closer to the frontier, while maintaining our high standards for safety and reliability.
Responsibilities:
Serve as a specialist 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 and solutions architects to translate customer business requirements into technical solutions
Influence technical architecture decisions and customer product strategy by developing customized pilots, prototypes, and evaluation suites
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
Create scalable public and internal assets, documenting the latest LLM prompting, evaling, agentic, and architecture techniques
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
Qualifications
4+ years of experience in technical roles such as Forward Deployed Engineer, Software Engineer or Technical Product Manager with a desire to work closely with customers. Former technical founders are also encouraged to apply.
Production experience with LLMs including advanced prompt engineering, agent development and frameworks, evaluation frameworks, transcript analysis, MCP, and deployment at scale
Strong programming skills with proficiency in Python or TypeScript and experience building production applications
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