Applied AI Architect, Public Sector

Anthropic; Tacoma (WA); On-site; 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 programs. You will architect Claude-based solutions, guide deployments, and collaborate with Sales, Product, and Engineering to ensure secure, reliable integration.

You will work primarily on-site in secure environments, presenting technical content to engineers and executives alike. A strong background in cyber, cryptography, and ISR domains is required.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.
• Experience in technical customer-facing roles (solutions architecture, sales engineering, or similar).
• Exceptional ability to communicate technical concepts to diverse stakeholders.
• Hands-on expertise in cyber/defense, cryptography, or ISR domains.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

TS/SCI clearance

Government civilian/cleared contractor

Solutions architecture

Customer-facing

Technical communication

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, and IIS/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.

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 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.

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. 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.

Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.

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.