Senior Forward-Deployed AI Architect

Anthropic; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 280,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with strategic customers and guide the architecture and advisory work around AI adoption. You will lead technical strategy, design decisions, and end-to-end engagements across senior stakeholders, including VPs and C-levels.

You will work with Claude and other teams to ship production AI applications, drive safe and reliable systems, and travel to customer sites 25% of the time as part of a global enterprise deployment effort.

Qualifications

• Deep system design and problem decomposition skills.
• Experience in a senior technical, customer facing role such as Forward Deployed Engineer or Tech Lead with consulting or product experience.
• A track record of influencing senior technical and business stakeholders, including VP and C-level, in complex organizations.
• Extensive experience building and operating production systems. Hands-on experience with LLMs and agents.

Responsibilities

• Own technical strategy for a key account or vertical, in partnership with account and product teams.
• Guide technical architecture and design decisions across multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Lead discovery and advisory engagements independently, shaping scope and technical strategy before a build starts.
• Lead engagements delivered with partners, setting the architecture and the quality bar for work you don’t build yourself.
• Review designs and unblock other FDEs on hard technical calls.
• Represent the company to senior technical and business stakeholders, including VPs and C-level, to align on strategy and de-risk delivery.
• Own your engagements end to end: scope the work, sequence it, unblock it, anticipate security and procurement gates, and deliver production systems the customer can operate.
• Work within customer systems to build production applications and agent components with Claude, and hand over systems the customer can run.
• Identify and codify repeatable deployment patterns and contribute insights back to our Product and Engineering teams.
• Build long term relationships with customers and proactively identify new opportunities for AI deployment throughout the lifecycle of an engagement.
• Travel frequently (25%) to customer sites to build in person with customers.
• Be a champion for the company's mission in the field.

Skills

Python

LLMs

Agent development

Production systems

System architecture

Customer facing

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with strategic customers and guide the architecture and advisory work around AI adoption. You will lead technical strategy, design decisions, and end-to-end engagements across senior stakeholders, including VPs and C-levels.

You will work with Claude and other teams to ship production AI applications, drive safe and reliable systems, and travel to customer sites 25% of the time as part of a global enterprise deployment effort.