Manager of Forward Deployed Engineering, Anthropic
£255-325k
AI safety and research company
Job no longer available
AI safety and research company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
£255-325k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Role
Who you are
- This role requires leaders with a strong engineering background and instincts for working well in customer environments
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering or a technical customer-facing role such as forward deployed engineering or consulting
- 2+ years of people management experience within a services/post-sales/FDE organization with a track record of hiring, developing, and retaining strong engineers. We are also open to candidates who have worked within traditional, internal facing software engineering management roles but also have strong customer facing instincts
- Experience building frontier LLM powered systems: ideally the development of agentic systems with leading edge models
- Experience working directly with enterprise customers on technical implementations, including comfort navigating complex organizational dynamics
- Executive presence with the ability to move fluidly between strategic conversations with senior stakeholders and hands-on debugging sessions with engineers
- Strong written and verbal communication skills. You can translate technical complexity into clear narratives for diverse audiences
- Experience building AI systems for highly regulated industries, such as financial services, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, or energy is a nice to have
What the job involves
- As an FDE Manager, you will hire and develop a team of exceptional Forward Deployed Engineers, and focus this team on a portfolio of agent deployments for the largest enterprises in the world
- FDE Managers will be expected to drive clarity amidst an ever-changing environment: galvanizing their team to solve challenging problems that have a real-world impact. Your work will directly influence Anthropic's product direction, create reusable deployment patterns, and establish Anthropic as the trusted partner for AI transformation for the Fortune 100
- This is a player-coach role with a strong bias toward leadership. You'll stay close enough to the technical work to review architectures, debug production issues, and pair program with your team when it matters — but your primary impact will come from the people you hire, the standards you set, and the culture you create
- You'll partner cross-functionally with Sales, Product, and Engineering to shape how Anthropic serves its most strategic customers. Your team will work hand-in-hand with Technical Deployment Leads who own delivery logistics and stakeholder management, while you ensure your team is shipping quality code, growing technically, and representing Anthropic at the highest level in customer environments
- Hire, develop, and retain a world-class team of Forward Deployed Engineers. Set a high bar for technical talent and customer instincts
- Conduct regular 1:1s, provide technical mentorship, and invest in the career growth of each team member. Create an environment where FDEs do the best work of their careers
- Staff and oversee customer engagements across your team's portfolio, making resource allocation decisions that balance customer needs, team development, and business priorities
- Collaborate with account teams and Technical Deployment Leads during the pre-sales process to qualify engagements, scope work, and inform statements of work
- Review technical architectures and code produced by your FDEs, ensuring the team ships solutions that are safe, reliable, and production-ready
- Stay hands-on enough to lead technical discovery sessions, ship code on occasion, and debug complex issues alongside your team when needed
- Coach your team to build repeatable playbooks, starter repositories, and integration templates that capture what you learn in the field
- Define team OKRs that tie to customer success outcomes and product adoption goals. Create operational cadences — standups, retros, engagement reviews — that keep the team aligned
- Partner with Product and Engineering to translate field insights into product improvements. Serve as the voice of the customer in internal planning
- Consistently uphold Anthropic’s values as you lead your team. Our FDEs should be strong representatives of Anthropic’s culture as they work within customer environments
- Travel to customer sites as needed (25-50%), particularly during engagement kickoffs and for your team's highest-priority accounts
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Funded by Google and founded by ex-OpenAI employees, Anthropic has emerged as one of the leading companies in AI, focused on building reliable and safe AI systems. Since its launch, the company has rapidly grown into a major player in the industry, with its AI assistant Claude now widely recognized as a strong competitor to ChatGPT.
Like other chatbots, Claude is accessible through a conversational interface and supports a wide range of text-generation and reasoning tasks. A key point of differentiation remains its emphasis on safety, with Anthropic's "Constitutional AI" approach aiming to produce more aligned and less harmful outputs than earlier generations of AI systems.
While Claude has received significant praise for its performance and alignment, some users have notes areas for improvement, particularly in technical domains such as complex mathematics and precision in grammar. However, with substantial backing freom major tech players and multi-billion-dollar funding rounds, Anthropic has firmly established itself as a long-term competitor in the AI space.
Now the company is continuing to refine Claude's capabilities while expanding globally, including growing its presence in Europe. And its ongoing commitment to responsible AI development put it in a position to be not just a competitor, but a key influence on the direction of the industry as a whole.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
190% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 15 rounds)
Apr 2026
$15bn
LATE VC
Feb 2026
$30bn
SERIES G
Total funding: $74.3bn
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
- Inclusive fertility benefits via Carrot Fertility
- 22 weeks of paid parental leave
- Flexible paid time off and absence policies
- Mental health support for you and your dependents
- Competitive salary and equity packages
- Optional equity donation matching at a 1:1 ratio, up to 25% of your equity grant
- Retirement plans with competitive matching
- Life and income protection plans
- $500/month flexible wellness and time saver stipend
- Commuter benefits
- Annual education stipend
- Home office stipends
- Relocation support for those moving for Anthropic
- Daily meals and snacks in the office
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Dario Amodei
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding Anthropic in 2021, Dario spent almost 5 years at OpenAI as a Team Lead for AI safety and as the Vice President of Research. They also worked as a Research Scientist at Google.
Jared Kaplan
(Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer)Jared hs been a Professor at John Hopkins University since 2012. They are also an experienced Researcher having worked previously at OpenAI and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
Jack Clark
(Co-Founder)Jack is an experienced Reporter having worked previously at the Register and Bloomberg. They also worked for OpenAI in Strategy and Communications and as a Policy Director.
Sam McCandlish
(Co-Founder & CTO)Sam graduated from Stanford University with a PhD in Theoretical Physics. They previously worked as a Research Lead at OpenAI.
Tom Brown
(Co-Founder)Tom previously worked as a Member of the Technical Staff for both OpenAI and Google Brain.
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