Applied AI Engineer, Enterprise Tech

Anthropic
San Francisco, CA, USA2026-01-08

About the job

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.

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

Minimum

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

Preferred

No preferred qualifications listed.