Applied Ai Engineer, Startups

About the Role

As an Applied AI Engineer at Anthropic, you will advise and partner with tech-forward companies to build on the Claude Developer Platform, leading deep technical engagements, designing agent architectures, and delivering prototypes and evaluation frameworks. The role combines hands-on engineering, customer-facing work, and technical content creation to help customers deploy LLM-powered applications at scale.

Builds directly with Claude and LLMs, focusing on prompting, agent design, and prototyping for developer audiences.

Location: London, UK

Salary: GBP 225,000 - 255,000/year

Posted: 6 days ago

Category: AI/ML & Data

Vibe Markers: 🚀 Startup, 💻 Open Source, ✨ New

Experience Level: Senior

Job Description

Role

As an Applied AI Engineer, you will act as a technical advisor and hands-on partner for high-growth, tech-forward companies building on the Claude Developer Platform. You will lead deep technical engagements, design scalable agent architectures, develop prototypes and evaluation frameworks, and work closely with Anthropic product and engineering teams to enable customer success.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a deep technical advisor to customer engineering teams and technical founders
• Work hands-on with customers via pair programming, architecture reviews, and code contributions
• Develop prototypes, evaluation suites, technical documentation, tutorials, and sample code
• Design scalable architectures, agent designs, prompting/context strategies, and evaluation frameworks
• Collaborate with Applied AI Architects, Account Executives, Product, and Engineering to maintain continuity across engagements
• Identify cross-engagement patterns and feed insights back to Product and Engineering teams
• Foster developer community engagement through hackathons, webinars, office hours, and workshops
• Travel to customer sites for workshops, implementation support, and relationship-building

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, or technical founder
• Experience in customer-facing or pre-sales technical roles, 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 and experience building production applications in Python
• Experience working with high-growth, tech-forward companies and ability to context-switch across industries (e.g., healthcare, fintech)
• Strong technical communication skills and ability to translate complex AI concepts into architectures and actionable implementation plans
• Experience facilitating technical workshops, hackathons, or developer-focused events
• Passion for AI safety and building technology that is safe and beneficial

Compensation

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

Logistics

• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• Location-based hybrid policy: staff are expected to be in an Anthropic office at least 25% of the time
• Anthropic sponsors visas in many cases and provides immigration/legal support when feasible

Tech Stack

Claude Developer Platform, LLMs, Python, Prompting, Context engineering, Agent architectures, Evaluation frameworks

Skills

Technical advisory, Customer-facing engagement, Pre-sales engineering, Pair programming, Architecture design, Prototyping, Evaluation framework design, Technical documentation, Technical communication, Workshop and event facilitation, Cross-industry adaptability, Collaboration, Scalability design, Travel readiness

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Optional equity donation matching
• Generous vacation
• Parental leave
• Flexible working hours
• Visa sponsorship
• Immigration lawyer support
• Office workspace