Applied AI Engineer, Startups

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco, focused on creating reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The team includes researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working to build beneficial AI systems.

As an Applied AI Engineer, you will be a trusted technical advisor helping tech-forward companies build on the Claude Developer Platform. You'll lead deep technical engagements, partnering with engineering teams to develop products on Claude, advising on implementation and agent design. You'll work with Applied AI Architects, Account Executives, and Product and Engineering teams to guide customers through technical engagements, developing custom evaluation frameworks, designing scalable architectures, and creating technical resources.

• Serve as a deep technical advisor to high-growth, tech-forward companies, building innovative use cases that push the boundaries of AI.
• Work hands-on with customer engineering teams: pair programming, architecture reviews, and code contributions.
• Develop prototypes and technical documentation, including evaluation suites, AI engineering techniques, and architecture diagrams.
• Collaborate with Applied AI Architects to maintain context and continuity across customer engagements.
• Identify patterns across engagements and contribute insights back to Product, Engineering, and the broader Applied AI team.
• Create technical content for developer audiences including documentation, tutorials, and sample code.
• Foster community engagement through hackathons, webinars, technical office hours, and developer-focused events.
• Travel to customer sites for workshops, implementation support, and relationship building.

• 4+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, or technical founder.
• Experience in a customer-facing or pre-sales technical role, partnering with customers to scope, design, and deliver solutions.
• Production experience building LLM-powered applications, including prompting, context engineering, agent architectures, evaluation frameworks, and deployment at scale.
• Strong programming skills with proficiency in Python and experience building production applications.
• Experience working with high-growth, tech-forward companies.
• Ability to context-switch across industries (healthcare, fintech, etc.) and use cases.
• Builder credibility that earns trust with technical founders and engineering leaders.
• Strong technical communication skills to translate complex AI concepts into architectural decisions and actionable implementation plans.
• Experience facilitating technical workshops, hackathons, or developer-focused events.
• Passion for making powerful technology safe and beneficial.

Annual Salary: £225,000—£255,000 GBP

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or 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. We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification.

Anthropic works as a single cohesive team on a few large-scale research efforts, valuing impact and collaboration. The company offers competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a collaborative office space.