Forward Deployed Engineer, Anthropic
Custom Agents
$280-400k
More information about location
2-3 days a week in office
AI safety and research company
Be an early applicant
AI safety and research company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$280-400k
More information about location
2-3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of experience in a technical, customer facing role such as Forward Deployed Engineer, or as a Software Engineer with consulting experience. Former technical founders are also encouraged to apply
- Production experience with LLMs including advanced prompt engineering, agent development, evaluation frameworks, and deployment at scale
- Strong programming skills with proficiency in Python (and ideally in one or more additional languages like Typescript, Java, etc) and experience shipping production applications
- High agency with an ability to navigate ambiguity present in complex organizations
- High cooperation mindset for cross-organizational collaboration, balancing competing priorities with integrity
- Passion for advancing safe, beneficial AI systems through creative technical applications
- Strong communication skills to conduct discovery with customers and to convey technical concepts to diverse stakeholders while maintaining a low ego and collaborative approach
- A background in financial services, healthcare/life sciences, or another enterprise vertical is a plus
- Experience with enterprise IT systems and/or AI deployment patterns is a plus
- Experience working as an FDE or in a professional services context is a plus
- We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification
What the job involves
- As a member of the Custom Agents, Applied AI team at Anthropic, you will be a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) who embeds directly with our most strategic customers to drive transformational AI adoption within highly regulated industries
- You will collaborate closely with customer teams to ship advanced AI applications that solve real world business problems
- Our FDEs engage with customers to accelerate the adoption of existing products and create new applications built on our models
- Working closely with our Post-Sales, Product, and Engineering teams, you'll combine engineering expertise, an understanding of frontier AI applications, and customer-facing skills to understand customer workflows and develop innovative solutions that address complex business challenges while maintaining our high standards for safety and reliability
- You will sit at the frontier of enterprise AI deployments and serve as one of our founding FDEs who helps to shape our forward-deployed motion within highly regulated industries
- We expect our FDEs to operate autonomously, thrive under ambiguity, and represent Anthropic at the highest level in customer environments
- This is a significant responsibility: you’ll play a key role in championing our mission in enterprise
- Work within customer systems to build production applications with Claude models, ensuring that these products meet customer requirements
- Deliver technical artifacts for customers like MCP servers, sub-agents, and agent skills that will be used in production workflows
- Provide white glove deployment support for Anthropic products in highly regulated enterprise environments
- Identify and codify repeatable deployment patterns and contribute insights back to our Product and Engineering teams
- Maintain strong knowledge of the latest developments in LLM capabilities, implementation patterns, and AI product development stacks
- Build long term relationships with customers and proactively identify new opportunities for AI deployment throughout the lifecycle of an engagement
- Travel frequently (25-50%) to customer sites to build in person with customers
- Be a champion for Anthropic’s mission in the field
Our take
Funded by Google and founded by ex-OpenAI employees, Anthropic is an AI company focused on building a reliable, innovative AI system. While the company is relatively new to the market it has already launched a highly anticipated AI chat assistant called Claude which is set to rival OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Similar to other chatbots, Claude is accessible through a chat interface and can provide a number of conversation and text-processing tasks. A key point of differentiation is that Claude is designed to produce less harmful outputs than that of the other chatbots that came before it.
While there is much praise for the chat assistant, there is still room for improvement with feedback reporting that Claude is worse at maths and grammar compared to its rival. However, with industry giants like Google backing this company from an early stage, and a monumental Series F round of $13 billion awarded in 2025, the company is planning to enhance Claude and expand its presence in Europe. What's more, Anthropic's commitment to "Constitutional AI" positions it as a leader in the responsible development of artificial intelligence.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
190% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 14 rounds)
Jan 2026
$20bn
SERIES G
Sep 2025
$13bn
SERIES F
Total funding: $49.3bn
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
- Inclusive fertility benefits via Carrot Fertility
- Generous subsidy for OneMedical
- 21 weeks of paid parental leave
- Unlimited PTO
- Optional equity donation matching at a 3:1 ratio, up to 50% of your equity grant
- 401(k) plan with 4% matching
- $500/month flexible wellness stipend
- Commuter coverage
- Annual education stipend
- A home office improvement stipend when you first join
- Relocation support for those moving to the Bay Area
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Dario Amodei
(Co-Founder & CEO)Spent almost 5 years at OpenAI as a Team Lead for AI safety and as the Vice President of Research. Also worked as a Research Scientist at Google.
Jared Kaplan
(Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer)Has been a Professor at John Hopkins University for the past 10 years. Also an experienced researcher having worked previously at OpenAI and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
Jack Clark
(Co-Founder)Experienced reporter having worked previously at the Register and Bloomberg. Also worked for OpenAI in Strategy and Communications and as a Policy Director.
Sam McCandlish
(Co-Founder & CTO)Graduated from Stanford University with a PhD in Theoretical Physics. Previously worked as a Research Lead at OpenAI.
Tom Brown
(Co-Founder)Previously worked as a Member of the Technical Staff for both OpenAI and Google Brain.
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