Applied AI Architect, Democratic Partnerships

As a member of the Applied AI, Democratic Partnerships team at Anthropic you will provide technical support to the governments of key international allies and civil-sector partners to support democratic resilience. Near-term work focuses on a few priority countries and partners, and will continue to expand with capacity. This role serves Anthropic's mission and public benefit goals. In collaboration with the Policy, National Security, Product, Research, and Engineering teams, you'll help partners build, integrate, and ship Claude deployments. You will use your excellent communication skills to explain complex topics, including the potential benefits and harms of frontier AI, to technical and non-technical audiences alike. You will also play a critical role in identifying how our AI systems can best serve public interests in frontline democracies, while maintaining our best-in-class safety standards. Responsibilities: • Work directly with partner technical teams to build and ship Claude deployments. Guide their setup, architecture, and integration as they build with Claude Code and the Claude API. • Build pilots and repeatable workflows that can scale across partner agencies, and support developer and university enablement. • Document how to deploy Claude in low-connectivity, multilingual, and security-conscious environments, for reuse across partners. • Act as the voice of our partners in frontline democracies and a key collaborator with our Product and Research teams to ensure we deliver the capabilities they need. • Travel internationally to partner institutions for technical enablement and building relationships. • Establish a shared vision for creating solutions that enable beneficial and safe AI. • Lead the vision, strategy, and execution of innovative solutions that leverage our latest models' capabilities. • Support partner deployments in areas such as education, cyber resiliency and global health. You may be a good fit if you have: • 4+ years of experience as a Customer Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, or Cybersecurity Engineer, working with governments, civil-sector organizations, or the public sector • Experience shipping software in imperfect conditions, and a practical approach to infrastructure constraints • Designed novel and innovative solutions for technical platforms in a developing mission area • Comfort working directly with partner technical teams, and motivation to work on deployments where the stakes are civic rather than commercial • 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 problem at hand, finding simple, easy-to-understand solutions • Excitement for engaging in cross-organizational collaboration, working through trade-offs, and balancing competing priorities • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, able to convey complicated topics in easily understandable terms to a diverse set of external and internal stakeholders, from engineers to senior government officials • Passion for thinking creatively about how to use technology in a way that is safe and beneficial, and ultimately furthers the goal of advancing safe AI systems 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: $240,000-$315,000 USD 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.