Applied AI Engineer, Anthropic
Beneficial Deployments
£240-255k
More information about location
4+ 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
£240-255k
More information about location
4+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years as a Software Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, or technical founder
- Production experience building LLM-powered applications, including prompting, context engineering, agent architectures, evaluation frameworks, and deployment at scale
- Builder credibility that earns trust with technical founders and engineering teams—you've shipped products and can speak from experience
- Experience working in ed-tech, healthcare, scientific research, nonprofit, or other mission-driven organizations, understanding their unique challenges and constraints
- A love of teaching, mentoring, and helping others succeed
- A scrappy mentality - comfortable wearing multiple hats, building from scratch, driving clarity in ambiguous situations, and doing whatever it takes to further the mission
- We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification
What the job involves
- Beneficial Deployments ensures AI reaches and benefits the communities that need it most. We partner with nonprofits, foundations, and mission-driven organizations to deploy Claude in education, global health, economic mobility, and life sciences, focusing on raising the floor
- We're looking for an Applied AI Engineer to join our Beneficial Deployments team. You’ll use your deep technical expertise to help partners accelerate their impact through advising on evals, hill-climbing on harnesses, prototyping new agents, etc. You will also work on building ecosystem-level tooling and infrastructure to scale impact beyond individual partnerships
- Serve as a deep technical partner to mission-driven organizations through advising on evals, agent architectures, context engineering, cost optimization, and more
- Provide hands-on support to partner engineering teams through pair programming, prototyping, and code contributions that accelerate their development
- Develop public goods infrastructure that benefits entire ecosystems through benchmarks, MCP’s, and Agent Skills
- Identify challenges unique to social impact partners, and contribute findings and improvements back to product, engineering, and research
- Create technical presentations, demos, and scalable technical content (documentation, tutorials, sample code) to accelerate partner adoption and self-service
- Help shape team processes and culture as we scale from 1 to N
- Travel occasionally to customer sites for workshops, technical deep dives, and relationship building
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)
May 2026
$65bn
SERIES H
Feb 2026
$30bn
SERIES G
Total funding: $124.3bn
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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