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Forward Deployed Engineer

Anthropic
Hybrid - New York City, San Francisco, or Seattle, 25% in officeUpdated 1d ago
Compensation
$280k–$320k
Published range · Top quartile for Engineering (498 listings)
Location
Hybrid - New York City, San Francisco, or Seattle, 25% in office
Remote eligibility
Employment
Full-time
Mid-level
Role family
Engineering
AI / ML
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About the job

About the role

As a Forward Deployed Engineer on the Applied AI team, you will embed with strategic customers to drive AI adoption, collaborating with customer teams to ship advanced AI applications. You'll work with Post-Sales, Product, and Engineering teams to understand workflows and develop solutions, while maintaining high standards for safety and reliability.

Responsibilities

  • Build production applications with Claude models within customer systems.
  • Deliver technical artifacts like MCP servers, sub-agents, and agent skills.
  • Provide white glove deployment support in enterprise environments.
  • Identify and codify repeatable deployment patterns.
  • Maintain knowledge of LLM capabilities and AI product development stacks.
  • Build long-term customer relationships and identify new AI deployment opportunities.
  • Travel to customer sites (estimated 25%).

Qualifications

  • 4+ years in a technical customer-facing role (FDE or software engineer with consulting).
  • Production experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, agent development, evaluation frameworks, and deployment at scale.
  • Strong programming skills in Python (and ideally Typescript, Java, etc.).
  • High agency, cooperation, communication skills.
  • Background in financial services, healthcare, or enterprise verticals is a plus.

Compensation

Annual salary: $280,000—$320,000 USD.

Logistics

Bachelor's degree or equivalent. Location-based hybrid policy: expect all staff in office at least 25% of the time. Visa sponsorship available.

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