Forward Deployed Engineer
Anthropic- 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
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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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