Applied AI Architect, Public Sector (GovTech) Washington, DC

Anthropic Limited; Washington; On-site; USD 275,000 - 315,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic Limited is seeking an Applied AI Architect for Public Sector to guide GovTech customers in deploying Claude responsibly at scale. You will blend deep technical expertise with strategic communication to design secure architectures and evaluation frameworks.

You will partner with sales, product, and engineering teams to map customer needs to technical solutions, and travel to client sites for hands‑on workshops and assessments.

Qualifications

• US Secret Clearance preferred for defense tech customers.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required.
• 5+ years in technical customer‑facing roles (Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, or TAM).
• Experience navigating complex buying cycles with multiple stakeholders.
• Excellent communication to translate requirements between technical and business audiences.

Responsibilities

• Partner with account executives to translate customer needs into technical solutions.
• Serve as primary technical advisor through Claude adoption from discovery to deployment.
• Support customers building with Claude Code, Claude API, and Claude for Enterprise.
• Create and deliver technical content tailored to engineering, IT, and executive audiences.
• Guide architecture decisions and Claude integration into existing stacks.
• Help customers develop evaluation frameworks to measure Claude performance.
• Identify common integration patterns and relay insights to Product/Engineering.
• Travel frequently to customer sites for workshops and deep dives.
• Maintain knowledge of the latest LLM developments and implementation patterns.

Skills

Technical communication

Python

LLM frameworks

Cross-functional collaboration

GovTech experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Claude API

Claude for Enterprise

Job description

Applied AI Architect, Public Sector (GovTech)

Washington, DC

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 team member at Anthropic, you will be a Pre-Sales architect focused on becoming a trusted technical advisor helping systems integrators, startups, and other GovTech companies understand the value of Claude and paint the vision on how they can successfully integrate and deploy Claude into their technology stack. You'll combine your deep technical expertise with customer-facing skills to architect innovative LLM solutions that address complex mission challenges while maintaining our high standards for safety and reliability.

Working closely with our Sales, Product, and Engineering teams, you'll guide customers from initial technical discovery through successful deployment. You'll leverage your expertise to help customers understand Claude's capabilities, develop evals, and design scalable architectures that maximize the value of our AI systems.

Responsibilities

Partner with account executives to deeply understand customer requirements and translate them into technical solutions, ensuring alignment between business objectives and technical implementation

Serve as the primary technical advisor to enterprise customers throughout their Claude adoption journey, from discovery to initial evaluation through deployment. You will need to coordinate internally across multiple teams & stakeholders to drive customer success

Support customers building with Claude Code, the Claude API, and Claude for Enterprise

Create and deliver compelling technical content tailored to different audiences. You will need to be able to spread the gamut from technical deep dives for engineering & development teams up to business value focused conversations with executives

Guide technical architecture decisions and help customers integrate Claude effectively into their existing technology stack

Help customers develop evaluation frameworks to measure Claude's performance for their specific use cases

Identify common integration patterns and contribute insights back to our Product and Engineering teams

Travel frequently to customer sites for workshops, technical deep dives, and relationship building

Maintain strong knowledge of the latest developments in LLM capabilities and implementation patterns

You may be a good fit if you have:

US Secret Clearance preferred for working with defense tech customers

Prior work in government, government contracting, or government tech preferred

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

Experience navigating complex buying cycles involving multiple stakeholders

Exceptional ability to build relationships with and communicate technical concepts to diverse stakeholders to include C-suite executives, engineering & IT teams, and more

Strong technical communication skills with the ability to translate customer requirements between technical and business stakeholders

Experience designing scalable cloud architectures and integrating with enterprise systems

Familiar with Python

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

Excitement for engaging in cross-organizational collaboration, working through trade-offs, and balancing competing priorities

A love of teaching, mentoring, and helping others succeed

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, able to convey complicated topics in easily understandable terms to a diverse set of external and internal stakeholders. You enjoy engaging in cross-organizational collaboration, working through trade-offs, and balancing competing priorities

Passion for thinking creatively about how to use technology in a way that is safe and beneficial, and ultimately furthers the goal of advancing 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.

$275,000 - $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.

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.

As set forth in Anthropic’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy,we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.