Applied AI Engineer (Startups)

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.