Applied AI Engineer, Startups

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the role

As an Applied AI Engineer at Anthropic, you will be a trusted technical advisor helping tech-forward companies build on the Claude Developer Platform as they grow and scale. You'll lead deep technical engagements, partnering directly with engineering teams to help them develop their products on top of Claude - advising on implementation, agent design, and working alongside them to build at the frontier of AI.

Working closely with Applied AI Architects, Account Executives, and Anthropic's Product and Engineering teams, you'll guide customers through deep technical engagements. You'll leverage your AI engineering expertise to develop custom evaluation frameworks, design scalable architectures, and create the technical resources that enable tech-forward businesses to succeed with Claude.

Responsibilities

Serve as a deep technical advisor to high-growth, tech-forward companies, working alongside them to build innovative use cases that push the boundaries of AI

Work hands-on with customer engineering teams: pair programming, architecture reviews, and code contributions that accelerate their development

Develop prototypes and technical documentation—including evaluation suites, AI engineering techniques, and architecture diagrams—that enable customers to build and scale with Claude

Collaborate closely with Applied AI Architects to maintain context and continuity across customer engagements

Identify patterns across engagements and contribute insights back to Product, Engineering, and the broader Applied AI team

Create technical content for developer audiences including documentation, tutorials, and sample code

Foster community engagement through hackathons, webinars, technical office hours, and developer-focused events

Travel to customer sites for workshops, implementation support, and relationship building

You may be a good fit if you have

4+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, or technical founder

Experience in a customer-facing or pre-sales technical role - partnering with customers to scope, design, and deliver solutions

Production experience building LLM-powered applications, including prompting, context engineering, agent architectures, evaluation frameworks, and deployment at scale

Strong programming skills with proficiency in Python and experience building production applications

Experience working with high-growth, tech-forward companies

Ability to context-switch across industries (healthcare, fintech, etc.) and use cases

Builder credibility that earns trust with technical founders and engineering leaders - you've shipped products and can speak from experience

Strong technical communication skills with the ability to translate complex AI concepts into architectural decisions and actionable implementation plans

Experience facilitating technical workshops, hackathons, or developer-focused events

Passion for making powerful technology safe and beneficial

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: £225,000 — £255,000 GBP

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 …