Applied AI Engineer, Beneficial Deployments

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. You will also work on building ecosystem-level tooling and infrastructure to scale impact beyond individual partnerships.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a deep technical partner to mission-driven organizations through advising on evals, agent architectures, context engineering, cost optimization, and more.
• Provide hands-on support to partner engineering teams through pair programming, prototyping, and code contributions that accelerate their development.
• Develop public goods infrastructure that benefits entire ecosystems through benchmarks, MCPs, and Agent Skills.
• Identify challenges unique to social impact partners, and contribute findings and improvements back to product, engineering, and research.
• Create technical presentations, demos, and scalable technical content (documentation, tutorials, sample code) to accelerate partner adoption and self-service.
• Contribute to team culture and processes during growth phase.
• Occasional travel for on-site workshops and relationship building.

You Might Be a Good Fit If You Have:

• 8+ 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 that earns trust with technical founders and engineering teams—you've shipped products and can speak from experience.
• Experience working in ed-tech, healthcare, scientific research, nonprofit, or other mission-driven organizations.
• Strong mentoring and teaching orientation.
• Scrappy mentality—comfortable wearing multiple hats, building from scratch.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.

Tech Stack & Focus Areas:

• LLM-powered application development
• Agent architectures and evaluation frameworks
• Context engineering and prompt optimization
• Claude platform deployment
• MCPs and Agent Skills

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation with optional equity matching
• Generous vacation and parental leave
• Flexible hours; hybrid (minimum 25% office presence)
• Visa sponsorship available

Location: Bangalore, India.