Anthropic is seeking an Applied AI Architect, Commercial to serve as a Pre‑Sales architect and technical advisor, guiding customers from discovery through deployment of Claude. The role involves partnering with sales and engineering teams, building prototypes and evaluation frameworks, creating reusable blueprints, and driving adoption of Claude across commercial accounts. The architect will coordinate with internal stakeholders, develop scalable architectures, and travel for customer workshops.
Applied AI Architect, Commercial at Anthropic
Hybrid - San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY
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USD 240,000 - 315,000
Requirements
Skills
- 3+ years of highly technical experience as a software engineer (or equivalent) with some customer-facing exposure, OR 3+ years as a Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, or Technical Account Manager with strong hands‑on building experience
- A builder identity. You've shipped real software, you have technical taste, and you care about the craft of what you build
- A systems mindset. When you see a problem, your instinct is to ask 'how do I make this reusable.'
- Strong coding ability. You ship prototypes regularly and can work in a real codebase, not just notebooks. Comfort with Python expected
- Strong ability to build trust with technical stakeholders and adjust your communication for varied audiences
- Strong technical communication skills with the ability to translate customer requirements between technical and business stakeholders
- Experience designing scalable cloud architectures and integrating with enterprise systems
- Familiarity with common LLM frameworks and tools, or a background in machine learning or data science
- Comfort operating in early‑stage, ambiguous environments where the playbook doesn't exist yet, and a track record of building structure as you go
- Excitement for engaging in cross‑organizational collaboration, working through trade‑offs, and balancing competing priorities
- A love of teaching, mentoring, and helping others succeed
- Passion for thinking creatively about how to use technology in a way that is safe and beneficial, and ultimately furthers the goal of advancing safe AI systems
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
- A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
Responsibilities
- Partner with account executives to deeply understand customer requirements and translate them into technical solutions, ensuring alignment between business objectives and technical implementation
- Serve as the primary technical advisor to customers throughout their Claude adoption journey, from discovery to initial evaluation through deployment. Coordinate internally across multiple teams and stakeholders to drive customer success
- Support customers building with the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude for Enterprise
- Ship working code, build prototypes and proof‑of‑concepts hands‑on, develop evaluation frameworks, and write near‑production examples that customers can extend
- Build reusable blueprints, demos, and enablement assets that scale across customers
- Guide technical architecture decisions and help customers integrate Claude effectively into their existing technology stack
- Help customers develop evaluation frameworks to measure Claude's performance for their specific use cases
- Identify common integration patterns and contribute insights back to our Product and Engineering teams
- Travel occasionally to customer sites for workshops, technical deep dives, and relationship building
- Maintain strong knowledge of the latest developments in LLM capabilities and implementation patterns
Technologies
PythonClaude APIClaude CodeClaude for EnterpriseLLM frameworks and tools
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