Forward Deployed Engineer

EngineersOfAI; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with strategic customers and drive enterprise AI adoption using Claude models. You will collaborate with customer teams to ship production AI applications and create new solutions that address complex business needs while upholding safety standards.

You will work with Post-Sales, Product, and Engineering to codify deployment patterns, deliver artifacts, and maintain cutting-edge knowledge of LLM capabilities.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in a technical, customer-facing role such as Forward Deployed Engineer or software engineering with consulting/product experience.
• Production experience with LLMs including prompt engineering, agent development, evaluation frameworks, and deployment at scale.
• Strong programming skills in Python (and optionally TypeScript/Java/others) and shipping production apps.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and operate autonomously in complex organizations.
• Strong collaboration across teams with integrity and prioritization.
• Excellent communication to discover with customers and explain technical concepts.
• Background in financial services, healthcare, or enterprise vertical is a plus.
• Experience with enterprise IT systems and AI deployment patterns is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Work within customer systems to build production applications with Claude models that meet customer needs.
• Deliver technical artifacts (MCP servers, sub-agents, agent skills) for production workflows.
• Provide white-glove deployment support for Anthropic products in enterprise environments.
• Identify repeatable deployment patterns and share insights with Product and Engineering teams.
• Stay updated on LLM capabilities and AI product stacks.
• Foster long-term customer relationships and identify new AI deployment opportunities.
• Travel frequently (25-50%) to customer sites to collaborate in person.
• Represent Anthropic at the highest level in customer environments.

Skills

4+ years experience

LLM production experience

Python

TypeScript/Java

ambition to navigate ambiguity

cross-functional collaboration

clear communication

enterprise vertical experience

enterprise IT deployments

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.

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.

As a member of the Applied AI team at Anthropic, you will be a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) who embeds directly with our most strategic customers to drive transformational AI adoption. You will collaborate closely with customer teams to ship advanced AI applications that solve real world business problems. Our FDEs engage with customers to accelerate the adoption of existing products and create new applications built on our models.

Working closely with our Post-Sales, Product, and Engineering teams, you'll combine engineering expertise, an understanding of frontier AI applications, and customer-facing skills to understand customer workflows and develop innovative solutions that address complex business challenges while maintaining our high standards for safety and reliability.

You will sit at the frontier of enterprise AI deployments and serve as one of our founding FDEs who helps to shape our forward-deployed motion. We expect our FDEs to operate autonomously, thrive under ambiguity, and represent Anthropic at the highest level in customer environments. This is a significant responsibility: you’ll play a key role in championing our mission in the enterprise.

Responsibilities

• Work within customer systems to build production applications with Claude models, ensuring that these products meet customer requirements.
• Deliver technical artifacts for customers like MCP servers, sub-agents, and agent skills that will be used in production workflows.
• Provide white glove deployment support for Anthropic products in enterprise environments.
• Identify and codify repeatable deployment patterns and contribute insights back to our Product and Engineering teams.
• Maintain strong knowledge of the latest developments in LLM capabilities, implementation patterns, and AI product development stacks.
• Build long term relationships with customers and proactively identify new opportunities for AI deployment throughout the lifecycle of an engagement.
• Travel frequently (25-50%) to customer sites to build in person with customers.
• Be a champion for Anthropic’s mission in the field.

You May Be a Good Fit If You Have

• 4+ years of experience in a technical, customer facing role such as Forward Deployed Engineer, or as a Software Engineer with consulting or product experience. Former technical founders are also encouraged to apply.
• Production experience with LLMs including advanced prompt engineering, agent development, evaluation frameworks, and deployment at scale.
• Strong programming skills with proficiency in Python (and ideally in one or more additional languages like TypeScript, Java, etc) and experience shipping production applications
• High agency with an ability to navigate ambiguity present in complex organizations.
• High cooperation mindset for cross-organizational collaboration, balancing competing priorities with integrity.
• Passion for advancing safe, beneficial AI systems through creative technical applications.
• Strong communication skills to conduct discovery with customers and to convey technical concepts to diverse stakeholders while maintaining a low ego and collaborative approach.
• A background in financial services, healthcare/life sciences, or another enterprise vertical is a plus.
• Experience with enterprise IT systems and/or AI deployment patterns is a plus.

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