Applied AI Architect, Strategic Enterprise Tech

Anthropic$240K — $315K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in roles like Field CTO, Solutions Architect, or Sales Engineer with hands-on experience
  • Strong background in working with enterprise customers and navigating complex buying cycles
  • Track record of owning strategic enterprise accounts
  • Exceptional relationship-building and technical communication skills for diverse stakeholders
  • Experience in designing scalable cloud architectures and integrating with enterprise systems
  • Proficient in Python and familiar with common LLM frameworks or AI tools
  • Passion for advancing safe and beneficial AI technology

Responsibilities

  • Partner with account executives to translate customer needs into technical solutions
  • Serve as the primary technical advisor for enterprise customers throughout their adoption journey
  • Assist customers with AI adoption strategies, including architecture reviews and workshops
  • Support integration using the Claude API and Claude for Enterprise
  • Create tailored technical content for varying audiences, from engineers to executives
  • Reproduce customer environments to demonstrate paths to production
  • Foster relationships with Anthropic's engineering and product teams to inform product direction

Benefits

  • Visa sponsorship available
  • Encouragement of diverse applicants
  • Hybrid work policy requiring office presence at least 25% of the time
  • Focus on representation and inclusion in team dynamics
Full Job Description
As an Applied AI team member at Anthropic, you will be a Pre-Sales architect focused on becoming a trusted technical advisor helping large enterprises understand the value of Claude and paint the vision on how they can successfully integrate and deploy Claude into their technology stack. Youll combine your deep technical expertise with customer-facing skills to architect innovative LLM solutions that address complex business challenges while maintaining our high standards for safety and reliability. You will focus on a short list of strategic accounts within our Enterprise Technology business. For each one you will co-own the account plan with the account executive, build executive technical champions, and drive a multi-quarter adoption roadmap. You will have breadth and depth, reproducing customer environments and problems, building working solutions with them, and develop deep relationships with our engineering and product teams, all in service of each accounts strategic roadmap Working closely with our Sales, Product, and Engineering teams, youll guide customers from initial technical discovery through successful deployment. Youll leverage your expertise to help customers understand Claudes capabilities, develop evals, and design scalable architectures that maximize the value of our AI systems. Responsibilities: 3 Partner with account executives to deeply understand customer requirements and translate them into technical solutions, ensuring alignment between business objectives and technical implementation 3 Serve as the primary technical advisor to enterprise customers throughout their Claude adoption journey, from discovery to initial evaluation through deployment. You will need to coordinate internally across multiple teams & stakeholders to drive customer success 3 Work with your customers on their overall AI adoption strategies, including use case scoping, architecture reviews, technical champion building, adoption workshops, and use case execution 3 Support customers building with both the Claude API and Claude for Enterprise 3 Create and deliver compelling technical content tailored to different audiences. You will need to be able to spread the gamut from technical deep dives for engineering & development teams up to business value focused conversations with executives 3 Reproduce customer environments and problems in your own builds. Use them to prove the path to production 3 Build deep relationships with Anthropic engineering and product teams. Carry customer needs into the product roadmap and bring product direction back to your accounts 3 Guide technical architecture decisions and help customers integrate Claude effectively into their existing technology stack 3 Help customers develop evaluation frameworks to measure Claudes performance for their specific use cases 3 Identify common integration patterns and contribute insights back to our Product and Engineering teams 3 Travel occasionally to customer sites for workshops, technical deep dives, and relationship building 3 Maintain strong knowledge of the latest developments in LLM capabilities and implementation patterns You may be a good fit if you have: 3 8+ years of experience in roles such as Field CTO, Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, or Product Manager, with hands-on building experience 3 Experience working with enterprise customers, navigating complex buying cycles involving multiple stakeholders 3 Experience owning named or strategic enterprise accounts through long, multi-stakeholder buying cycles 3 Exceptional ability to build relationships with and communicate technical concepts to diverse stakeholders to include C-suite executives, engineering & IT teams, and more 3 Strong technical communication skills with the ability to translate customer requirements between technical and business stakeholders 3 Experience designing scalable cloud architectures and integrating with enterprise systems 3 Comfortable with python 3 Familiarity with common LLM frameworks and tools or a background in machine learning or data science 3 Excitement for engaging in cross-organizational collaboration, working through trade-offs, and balancing competing priorities 3 A love of teaching, mentoring, and helping others succeed 3 Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, able to convey complicated topics in easily understandable terms to a diverse set of external and internal stakeholders. You enjoy engaging in cross-organizational collaboration, working through trade-offs, and balancing competing priorities 3 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 roles 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: Bachelors 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 arent 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 youre interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones were building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

About Anthropic

Anthropic is an artificial intelligence research lab that focuses on developing AI systems that are safe, reliable, and trustworthy. The company was founded in 2019 by Dr. Yoshua Bengio, a leading AI researcher and winner of the Turing Award. Anthropic's research is focused on developing AI systems that can learn from small amounts of data, reason about complex systems, and interact with humans in a natural way. The company is based in New York City and has a team of experienced AI researchers and engineers.
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