Applied AI Engineer, DNB

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. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the role

As an Applied AI Engineer on our Digital Native Business team, you'll help fast-growing, tech-forward companies build their products on Claude. You'll be the technical advisor their engineering teams turn to for architecture, agent design and evaluation, and you'll work alongside them, pair programming and reviewing architectures, to get from first prototype to production at scale.

You'll partner with Account Executives and Applied AI Architects to take each customer from first conversation through technical evaluation and proof of value to a confident decision to build on Claude, then stay close as they ship and scale. These customers move quickly and expect you to have built things yourself, so you'll be at your best in the code and the architecture review, not just the meeting. Alongside Anthropic's Product and Engineering teams, you'll develop custom evaluation frameworks, prototypes and reference architectures, and turn what you learn across engagements into technical content and product feedback that helps other builders succeed with Claude.

Responsibilities

Serve as a deep technical advisor to high-growth, tech-forward companies, working alongside them to build innovative use cases that push the boundaries of AI

Work hands-on with customer engineering teams: pair programming, architecture reviews, and code contributions that accelerate their development

Develop prototypes and technical documentation—including evaluation suites, AI engineering techniques, and architecture diagrams—that enable customers to build and scale with Claude

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

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

Create technical content for developer audiences including documentation, tutorials, and sample code

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

Travel to customer sites for workshops, implementation support, and relationship building

You may be a good fit if you have

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

Experience in a customer-facing or pre-sales technical role - partnering with customers to scope, design, and deliver solutions

Production experience building LLM-powered applications, including prompting, context engineering, agent architectures, evaluation frameworks, and deployment at scale

Strong programming skills with proficiency in Python and experience building production applications

Experience working with high-growth, tech-forward companies

Ability to context-switch across industries (healthcare, fintech, etc.) and use cases

Builder credibility that earns trust with technical founders and engineering leaders - you've shipped products and can speak from experience

Strong technical communication skills with the ability to translate complex AI concepts into architectural decisions and actionable implementation plans

Experience facilitating technical workshops, hackathons, or developer-focused events

Passion for making powerful technology safe and beneficial

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. 

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary: £225,000 — £255,000 GBP

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combina …