Applied AI Architect, Public Sector

EngineersOfAI; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 240,000 - 315,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking an Applied AI Solutions Architect to serve as the customer’s trusted technical advisor for national security missions. You will guide Claude integration across the customer’s tech stack, balancing safety and reliability with practical deployment.

You will collaborate with Sales, Product, and Engineering, delivering both deep technical content and executive briefings. Most work occurs on-site in secure environments with government partners.

Qualifications

• Strong ability to communicate complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders.
• Experience in solutions architecture or sales engineering roles.
• Experience with national security mission programs or classified environments is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the dedicated technical advisor for national security mission programs from discovery to deployment.
• Support customers using Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude for Enterprise.
• Develop evaluation frameworks to measure Claude's performance for mission-specific use cases.
• Guide technical architecture decisions and integration into the customer’s stack.
• Coordinate across Sales, Product, and Engineering to drive customer success.
• Create and deliver technical content from deep-dives to executive briefings.
• Work on-site with customer teams in secure government facilities.

Skills

Clear communication

Solutions architecture

Customer-facing

Security and compliance awareness

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Claude API

Claude Code

Claude for Enterprise

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 an Applied AI Solutions Architect supporting a dedicated national security mission program, you will be the customer's trusted technical advisor — helping them understand the value of Claude and how to successfully integrate and deploy it into their technology stack. You'll combine deep technical and cyber domain expertise with customer-facing skills to architect LLM solutions for complex mission challenges while maintaining our high standards for safety and reliability. Working closely with our Sales, Product, and Engineering teams, you'll guide the customer from technical discovery through successful deployment, much of it on-site in secure environments.

Key responsibilities

• Serve as the dedicated technical advisor for one or more national security mission programs, from discovery and evaluation through deployment and adoption
• Support the customer building with Claude Code, the Claude API, and Claude for Enterprise
• Help develop evaluation frameworks to measure Claude's performance for mission-specific use cases
• Guide technical architecture decisions and integration into the customer's existing stack
• Coordinate internally across Sales, Product, and Engineering to drive customer success
• Create and deliver technical content from engineering deep dives to executive briefings
• Work primarily on-site with the customer's engineering and mission teams in secure government facilities, while maintaining close internal coordination and feedback with Anthropic’s Applied AI and Engineering teams

Minimum qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph
• Prior experience working within US intelligence community agencies as a government civilian or cleared contractor
• Experience in technical customer-facing roles (solutions architecture, sales engineering, or similar)
• Exceptional ability to communicate technical concepts to diverse stakeholders, from engineers to executives
• Hands-on expertise in one or more of the following domains: offensive or defensive cyber operations (including vulnerability research, reverse engineering, andICS/OT security), cryptography and cryptanalysis, intelligence analysis and ISR (all-source, SIGINT, GEOINT), mission and weapons systems (command and control, space, electronic warfare, autonomy), CBRN and nonproliferation, or accreditation of classified systems (RMF, ATO, cross-domain solutions).

Preferred qualifications

• 5+ years in Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, Technical Account Manager or equivalent roles
• Familiarity with common LLM frameworks and tools
• Background in artificial intelligence, machine learning, or data science
• Experience designing scalable cloud architectures and integrating with enterprise systems
• Experience deploying and operating software in air-gapped or classified environments

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: $240,000—$315,000 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study: A field rele