Applied AI Architect, Startups

Anthropic; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 240,000 - 315,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity donation matching (optional)

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office in San Francisco

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking an Applied AI Architect for its Startups team to help founders architect innovative LLM solutions using the Claude Developer Platform. You will translate startup needs into technical architectures and guide evaluations and deployments, working closely with sales, product, and engineering teams.

The role emphasizes building credibility with founders, crafting evaluation frameworks, and communicating complex AI concepts clearly.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in technical customer-facing roles such as Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, or founder-led sales.
• Experience with startups or high-growth technology companies; you understand velocity and constraints of early-stage companies.
• Strong builder credibility through software engineering or technical founder background; you speak the language of builders and earn trust.
• Deep technical proficiency with building and scaling AI products; knowledge of Claude capabilities.
• Hands-on experience building and deploying LLM-powered applications; context engineering and evaluation frameworks.
• Strong technical communication to translate AI concepts into actionable insights.
• Track record of selling technical products in competitive markets.
• Comfortable with Python and familiarity with common LLM frameworks, tools, and integration patterns.
• Passion for safe and societally beneficial technology.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Account Executives to understand startup requirements and translate them into technical solutions throughout Claude adoption from evaluation to deployment.
• Win technical evaluations and help startups measure Claude's performance via evaluation frameworks.
• Build credibility with founders and startup engineers by speaking their language and guiding architecture decisions.
• Gather insights on startup use cases and deployment patterns; feed feedback to Product and Engineering teams.
• Travel to customer sites and startup events for workshops and relationship-building.

Skills

Solutions architect experience

Startup/scale-up experience

Python

LLM frameworks

Technical communication

Sales engineering

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Claude Developer Platform

Eval frameworks

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 Architect on the Startups team at Anthropic, you will win the trust of founders and engineers by being an exceptional technical partner, helping startups successfully build on the Claude Developer Platform as they grow from early product to scale. You'll combine deep technical expertise with a builder-first mindset to help startups architect innovative LLM solutions, win technical evaluations, and get the most out of Claude. Working closely with Account Executives and the broader Sales, Product, and Engineering teams, you'll guide startups from initial technical discovery through successful deployment and beyond. You'll leverage your expertise to help founders understand Claude's capabilities, develop evals, and design architectures that maximize the value of our AI systems.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Account Executives to deeply understand startup requirements, translate them into technical solutions, and serve as a trusted technical advisor throughout the Claude adoption journey from initial evaluation through deployment and expansion
• Win technical evaluations that demonstrate why Claude is the best foundation for what startups are building, helping them develop evaluation frameworks to measure Claude's performance for their specific use cases
• Build technical credibility with founders, founding engineers, and startup engineering teams by speaking their language, understanding their build patterns, and guiding technical architecture decisions
• Gather insights on how startups are building with Claude, identify emerging use cases and deployment patterns, and deliver feedback to Product and Engineering teams
• Travel to customer sites, startup-focused events, and industry conferences for workshops, technical deep dives, and relationship building

You May Be a Good Fit If You Have

• 3+ years of experience in technical customer-facing roles such as Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, or technical founder who has done founder-led sales
• Experience working with startups or high-growth technology companies; you understand the velocity and constraints of early-stage companies
• Strong builder credibility through experience as a software engineer or technical founder; you speak the language of builders and have the presence to earn the trust of technical founders and startup engineering teams
• Deep technical proficiency with building and scaling AI products, a pulse on AI engineering best practices, and the ability to demonstrate why Claude is the best foundation
• Hands-on experience building and deploying LLM-powered applications in production, with expertise in context engineering, evaluation frameworks, and modern AI architectures
• Strong technical communication skills with the ability to translate complex AI concepts into actionable insights for founders and engineering teams
• Track record of selling technical products in competitive markets
• Comfortable with Python and familiarity with common LLM frameworks, tools, and integration patterns
• Passion for making powerful technology safe and societally beneficial

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.

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.

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.