Applied AI Engineer for Life Sciences Startups

EngineersOfAI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking an Applied AI Engineer on the Startups team to serve as a trusted technical advisor to life sciences and biotech startups. You will lead deep technical engagements, helping startups build their products on Claude and run research with it, advising on implementation and agent design.

You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Research teams, develop evaluation frameworks, and create technical resources to enable startups to succeed with Claude.

Qualifications

• Deep experience in the life sciences or biotech.
• 4+ years of technical experience as a software engineer, ML or related field.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a deep technical advisor to high-potential life sciences and biotech startups, whether Claude sits inside the product they sell or inside the way they make discoveries, working alongside them to build innovative use cases that push the boundaries of AI in scientific research and development
• Work hands-on with startup engineering teams and their scientists through pair programming and architecture reviews that accelerate their development, and understand their scientific workflows end to end so that your guidance fits into real research pipelines
• Develop prototypes and technical documentation, including evaluation suites, scientifically grounded benchmarks, AI engineering techniques, and architecture diagrams, that enable startups to build, operate, and scale with Claude
• Create reference implementations and sample code that many companies can adopt without starting from scratch, such as example MCP servers for domain-specific data sources like genomics platforms, literature databases, and experimental repositories, along with agent skills for common scientific workflows
• Collaborate closely with Applied AI Architects to maintain context and continuity across customer engagements
• Identify patterns across engagements, including what is hard about deploying AI in the life sciences such as heterogeneous data, auditability requirements, and the gap between a working prototype and a system that scientists trust, and contribute insights back to Product, Engineering, Research, and the broader Applied AI team, including feedback on the model capabilities and product features that would most accelerate discovery work
• Create technical content for startup audiences including documentation, tutorials, and sample code
• Represent Anthropic across the life sciences startup ecosystem and foster community engagement through hackathons, webinars, technical office hours, in-person founder events, and research show and tells
• Travel to customer sites for workshops, implementation guidance, and relationship building

Job description

Anthropic is seeking an Applied AI Engineer on the Startups team to serve as a trusted technical advisor to life sciences and biotech startups. You will lead deep technical engagements, helping startups build their products on Claude and run research with it, advising on implementation and agent design.

You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Research teams, develop evaluation frameworks, and create technical resources to enable startups to succeed with Claude.