Applied AI Engineer, Beneficial Deployments
AI Tools
Tech Stack
Agent Workflow
Help partners build AI applications through advising on evals, agent architectures, context engineering, prototyping new agents, and building ecosystem-level tooling including benchmarks, MCPs, and Agent Skills.
About the Role
Anthropic - Applied AI Engineer, Beneficial Deployments San Francisco, CA / New York City, NY (Hybrid) | Published January 16, 2026
About Beneficial Deployments:
Beneficial Deployments ensures AI reaches and benefits the communities that need it most. We partner with nonprofits, foundations, and mission-driven organizations to deploy Claude in education, global health, economic mobility, and life sciences, focusing on raising the floor.
About the Role:
We're looking for an Applied AI Engineer to join our Beneficial Deployments team. You'll use your deep technical expertise to help partners accelerate their impact through advising on evals, hill-climbing on harnesses, prototyping new agents, etc.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as a deep technical partner to mission-driven organizations through advising on evals, agent architectures, context engineering, cost optimization
- Provide hands-on support to partner engineering teams through pair programming, prototyping, and code contributions
- Develop public goods infrastructure including benchmarks, MCPs, and Agent Skills
- Identify challenges unique to social impact partners and contribute improvements back to product, engineering, and research
- Create technical presentations, demos, and scalable technical content
- Help shape team processes and culture
- Travel occasionally to customer sites
You Might Be a Good Fit If You Have:
- 4+ years as a Software Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, or technical founder
- Production experience building LLM-powered applications including prompting, context engineering, agent architectures, evaluation frameworks, and deployment at scale
- Builder credibility with technical founders and engineering teams
- Experience in ed-tech, healthcare, scientific research, nonprofit, or mission-driven organizations
- A love of teaching, mentoring, and helping others succeed
- A scrappy mentality comfortable wearing multiple hats
Annual Salary: $280,000 - $300,000 USD Hybrid: 25% in-office requirement Visa sponsorship available