Applied AI Engineer (Startups) at Anthropic

About Anthropic

Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole.

About the role

As an Applied AI Engineer on the Startups team at Anthropic, you will be a trusted technical advisor helping AI-native startups build on the Claude Developer Platform. You'll lead deep technical engagements, partnering directly with engineering teams to help them develop their products on top of Claude — advising on implementation, agent design, and working alongside them at the frontier of AI.

Responsibilities

Serve as a deep technical advisor to high-potential startups, working alongside them to build innovative use cases

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 closely with Applied AI Architects to maintain context and continuity across engagements

Identify patterns across engagements and contribute insights back to Product, Engineering, and the broader Applied AI team

Create technical content for developer audiences

Foster community engagement through hackathons, webinars, technical office hours, and developer-focused events

Travel to customer sites for workshops and relationship building

Requirements

4+ years as Software Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, or technical founder

Production experience with LLM applications: prompting, context engineering, agents, evaluation, deployment

Strong Python proficiency and production application experience

Startup or high-growth company background

Cross-industry capability (healthcare, fintech, etc.)

Builder credibility with technical founders

Workshop and hackathon facilitation experience

Compensation

Annual Salary: $200,000 - $320,000 USD

Logistics

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Hybrid: minimum 25% in-office

Visa sponsorship available

Benefits

Competitive compensation, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours.