Applied AI Engineer - Claude Architecture & Flexible Hours

anthropic; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 225,000 - 255,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to join the Digital Native Business team to help fast-growing companies build on Claude. You will be the technical advisor for architecture, agent design, and evaluation, pairing with customer engineers from prototype to production at scale.

In this role you’ll partner with Account Executives and Applied AI Architects to guide customers from first conversation through technical evaluation to a decision to build on Claude, delivering prototypes,

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, or technical founder.
• Experience in a customer-facing or pre-sales technical role.
• Production experience building LLM-powered applications, including prompting, context engineering, agent architectures, and deployment at scale.
• Strong programming skills with Python; experience building production applications.
• Experience with high-growth tech companies and diverse industries.
• Strong technical communication to translate AI concepts into architecture and implementation plans.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a deep technical advisor to high-growth companies building innovative AI use cases.
• Work hands-on with customer engineering teams: pair programming, architecture reviews, and code contributions.
• 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.

Skills

Python

LLM applications

Customer-facing

Technical communication

Prototyping

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Anthropic is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to join the Digital Native Business team to help fast-growing companies build on Claude. You will be the technical advisor for architecture, agent design, and evaluation, pairing with customer engineers from prototype to production at scale.

In this role you’ll partner with Account Executives and Applied AI Architects to guide customers from first conversation through technical evaluation to a decision to build on Claude, delivering prototypes,