Applied AI Architect, Partnerships

Anthropic Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Benefits package

Equity donations

Generous vacation

Parental leave

Flexible hours

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Partners Solutions Architect to lead pre-sales engagements with GSIs, RSIs, and cloud partners (AWS and GCP). You will architect joint GenAI solutions and drive go-to-market programs with partner ecosystems, accelerating indirect revenue.

You will embed with partner teams, articulate architectures to executives and engineers, and help shape Anthropic's strategy for safe, scalable AI deployments. 5+ years in partner- or solution-architecture roles highly valued.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in technical partner- or customer-facing roles such as Solutions Architect or Sales Engineer.
• Track record partnering with GSIs and cloud providers to solve complex challenges.
• Exceptional ability to communicate technical concepts to diverse stakeholders, including executives.
• Experience designing scalable cloud architectures and integrating with enterprise systems.
• Familiarity with LLM frameworks or ML/data science background is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Act as a technical thought partner to GTM partnerships team and embed with partner technical teams.
• Identify high-value GenAI applications and codify reference architectures and best practices.
• Unblock strategic customer deals by providing deep technical expertise and guidance.
• Represent Anthropic at partner events and lead developer enablement sessions.
• Gather and relay product feedback to inform roadmap and partner strategy.

Skills

Technical partner-facing experience

Strong communication

GSI/cloud partner collaboration

Executive stakeholder communication

Architecting cloud solutions

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

AWS

GCP

Job description

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 a Partners Solutions Architect on Anthropic's Applied AI team, you'll be a pre-sales architect focused on building technical relationships with our Global and Regional System Integrators (GSIs/RSIs) and cloud partners (AWS and GCP). You'll strengthen these relationships to accelerate indirect revenue, enable partners' AI practices, and execute our long-term go-to-market strategy.

Responsibilities

• Strategic technical partnership: Act as a technical thought partner to the Anthropic GTM partnerships team. Bring technical expertise to help us understand the partner landscape, drive key strategic programs, and find ways to deepen partner technical capabilities. Embed with GSI and cloud partner technical teams to enable their AI practices, support troubleshooting, and evangelize Anthropic in their developer communities. You'll also serve as an escalation point for complex technical issues.

• Joint solution development: Work with partners to identify high-value, industry-specific GenAI applications, develop joint solutions, and codify reference architectures and best practices that speed time to deployment.

• Customer deal support: Step in to unblock strategic customer deals where partners are the primary delivery vehicle, providing deep technical expertise and solution architecture guidance.

• Partner ecosystem and events: Represent Anthropic at partner events such as GSI customer workshops, AWS summits, and industry conferences. Lead or support partner-specific developer events, hackathons, and technical enablement sessions, especially for technically native communities.

• Product feedback: Gather and validate feedback on Anthropic's products and offerings, especially as they relate to partner use cases and deployment patterns. Deliver it to the relevant Anthropic teams to inform the product roadmap and partner strategy.

You may be a good fit if you have

• 5+ years in technical customer-facing or partner-facing roles, such as Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, Partner Sales Engineer, or Technical Account Manager

• A track record of partnering successfully with GSIs and/or cloud providers to solve complex technical challenges, from initial solution design through customer delivery

• Exceptional ability to build relationships and communicate technical concepts to diverse stakeholders, including C-suite executives and engineering and IT teams

• Strong presentation and technical communication skills, with the ability to translate requirements between technical and business stakeholders

• Experience designing scalable cloud architectures and integrating with enterprise systems

• Familiarity with common LLM frameworks and tools, or a background in machine learning or data science

• Enthusiasm for cross-organizational collaboration, working through trade-offs, and balancing competing priorities

• A love of teaching, mentoring, and helping others succeed

• A passion for using technology in ways that are safe and beneficial, and that advance the goal of 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: £150,000 - £190,000 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 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.

How we're different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.