Applied AI Engineer, Enterprise Tech

Anthropic$200K — $320K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years in technical roles such as Customer Engineer or Technical Product Manager, preferably with a customer-facing focus.
  • Production experience with LLMs, including advanced prompt engineering and deployment at scale.
  • Strong programming skills in Python or TypeScript, with experience building production applications.
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity and simplify complex problems in various domains.
  • Collaborative mindset to balance competing priorities across organizations.
  • Passion for developing safe and beneficial AI systems with technical creativity.
  • Exceptional communication skills for conveying technical concepts to diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a technical advisor for customers deploying products with Claude models, ensuring successful implementation.
  • Collaborate with sales and solutions teams to convert business needs into technical solutions.
  • Influence product strategy by developing tailored pilots and evaluation frameworks for clients.
  • Conduct hands-on workshops and code reviews to guide customer engineering teams effectively.
  • Identify design patterns and provide feedback to improve Anthropic's models and practices.
  • Create internal and external documentation on LLM techniques and implementation strategies.
  • Stay updated on advancements in LLM capabilities and AI trends, engaging in professional development activities.

Benefits

  • Flexible working hours and location-based hybrid policy.
  • Generous vacation and parental leave.
  • Optional equity donation matching program.
  • Collaborative and engaging office environment in San Francisco.
  • Support for visa sponsorships for qualified candidates.
Full Job 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

You may be a good fit if you have:
  • 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

Please note this role requires 3 days in office per week.

Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

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:

$200,000-$320,000 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.

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 you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're 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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50 employees
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Founded
2019

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