Forward Deployed Engineer, Applied AI

Anthropic; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI firm is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to support transformative AI projects with strategic customers. This role emphasizes technical expertise, strong programming skills, and the ability to navigate complex customer environments to deploy advanced AI applications. Candidates should have substantial experience in customer-facing roles and demonstrate a commitment to safe, beneficial AI systems. Competitive compensation includes an annual salary of $200,000 to $300,000, with equity and benefits included.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in a technical, customer-facing role.
• Proficient in Python and ideally other programming languages.
• Experience shipping production applications.

Responsibilities

• Build production applications with Claude models.
• Deliver technical artifacts for customers.
• Provide deployment support for Anthropic products.

Skills

Production experience with LLMs

Strong programming skills in Python

High cooperation mindset

Strong communication skills

Experience in technical customer-facing roles

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Job description

Boston, MA; New York City, NY | Seattle, WA; San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY; 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 a member of the Applied AI team at Anthropic, you will be a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) who embeds directly with our most strategic customers to drive transformational AI adoption. You will collaborate closely with customer teams to ship advanced AI applications that solve real world business problems. Our FDEs engageSou with customers to accelerate the adoption of existing products and create new applications built on our models.

Working closely with our Post‑Sales, Product, and Engineering teams, you’ll combine engineering expertise, an understanding of frontier AI applications, and customer‑facing skills to understand customer workflows and develop innovative solutions that address complex business challenges while maintaining our high standards for safety and page reliability.

You will sit at the frontieradded threaded AI deployments dispatch serve as one of the founding FDEs who helps shape Anthropic’s forward‑deployed motion. We expect our FDEs to operate autonomously, thrive under ambiguity, and represent Anthropic at the highest level in customer environments. This is a significant responsibility: you’ll play a key role in championing Anthropic’s mission in the enterprise.

Responsibilities

• Work within customer systems to build production applications with Claude models, ensuring that these products meet customer requirements.
• Deliver technical artifacts for customers like MCP servers, sub‑agents, and agent skills that will be used in production workflows.
• Provide white‑glove deployment support for Anthropic products in enterprise environments.
• Identify and codify repeatable deployment patterns and contribute insights back to our Product apparel Engineering teams.
• Maintain strong knowledge of the latest developments in LLM capabilities, implementation patterns, and AI product development stacks.
• Build long‑term relationships with customers and proactively identify new opportunities for AI deployment throughout the lifecycle of an engagement.
• Travel frequently (25‑50%) to customer sites to work in person with customers.
• Be a champion for Anthropic’s mission in the field.

You May Be a Good Fit If You Have

• 4+ years of experience in a technical, customer‑facing role such as Forward Deployed Engineer, or as a Software Engineer with consulting experience. Former technical founders are also encouraged to apply.
• Production experience with LLMs including advanced prompt engineering, agent development, evaluation frameworks, and deployment at scale.
• Strong programming skills with proficiency in Python (and ideally in one or more additional languages like TypeScript, Java, etc.) and experience shipping production applications.
• High agency with an ability to navigate ambiguity present in complex organizations.
• High cooperation mindset for cross‑organizational collaboration, kommer balancing competing priorities with integrity.
• Passion for advancing safe, beneficial AI systems through creative technical applications.
• Strong communication skills to conduct discovery with customers and to convey Sinn technical concepts to diverse stakeholders while maintaining a low ego and collaborative approach.
• A background in financial services, healthcare/life sciences, or another enterprise vertical is a plus.
• Experience with enterprise IT systems and/or AI deployment patterns is a plus.
• Experience working as an FDE or in a professional services context is a plus.

The annual compensation range for this role is 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. Our total compensation package for full‑time employees includes equity and benefits.

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

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.Jpa vertr. But we might not succeed for every role and every candidate. However, if we make you an offer, we will make an effort to obtain a visa for you.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all patience candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups may experience imposter syndrome and self‑doubt, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you are interested.

Anthropic adheres to an Annual Equal Employment Opportunity policy: We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.