Forward Deployed Engineer (Applied AI)

Anthropic; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (Applied AI) to work with our most strategic enterprise customers on Claude-based production applications. You will embed with customers, build MCP servers, sub-agents, and agent skills, and provide hands-on deployment support while turning patterns into feedback for product and engineering.

This hybrid role requires 4+ years in a technical customer-facing capacity, strong Python, and travel of 25–50% to customer sites.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in a technical customer-facing role.
• Production LLM experience.
• Strong Python programming skills.
• Financial services or healthcare/life sciences experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Embed with Anthropic's enterprise customers to build production applications on Claude.
• Build MCP servers, sub-agents and agent skills around customer workflows.
• Provide hands-on deployment support at customer sites.
• Turn repeatable patterns into product and engineering feedback.

Skills

Python

LLM experience

Technical customer-facing

Job description

Embeds with Anthropic's most strategic enterprise customers on the Applied AI team to build production applications on Claude. Builds MCP servers, sub-agents and agent skills around customer workflows, gives hands‑on deployment support, and turns repeatable patterns into product and engineering feedback. 25–50% travel to customer sites; hybrid with at least 25% in office. Requires 4+ years in a technical customer-facing role, production LLM experience and strong Python; financial services or healthcare/life sciences a plus.

Anthropic finally prints a US base band on an FDE seat: $200K–$300K, below the $350K+ TC headline on the SF listing, which tells you equity carries the rest. You build MCP servers, sub-agents and agent skills inside strategic accounts, and the posting calls it a founding‑FDE seat.

Forward Deployed Engineer (Applied AI) at Anthropic. Location: Boston / New York / Seattle / San Francisco (hybrid, 25–50% travel). Compensation: $200K-$300K base + equity. Posted October 18, 2026.