Applied AI Architect on the Startups team at Anthropic, partnering with founders and engineers to help them build and scale LLM solutions on the Claude Developer Platform, from early product stages to scale.
Applied AI Architect, Startups at Anthropic
Hybrid - San Francisco, CA
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USD 240,000 - 315,000
Requirements
Skills
- 3+ years of experience in technical customer-facing roles such as Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, or technical founder
- Experience working with startups or high-growth technology companies
- Strong builder credibility through experience as a software engineer or technical founder
- Deep technical proficiency with building and scaling AI products, and AI engineering best practices
- Hands-on experience building and deploying LLM-powered applications in production, with expertise in context engineering, evaluation frameworks, and modern AI architectures
- Strong technical communication skills to translate complex AI concepts into actionable insights
- Track record of selling technical products in competitive markets
- Comfortable with Python and familiarity with common LLM frameworks, tools, and integration patterns
- Passion for making powerful technology safe and societally beneficial
Responsibilities
- Partner with Account Executives to understand startup requirements, translate them into technical solutions, and act as a trusted technical advisor throughout the Claude adoption journey
- Win technical evaluations that demonstrate why Claude is the best foundation for startups' use cases
- Build technical credibility with founders, founding engineers, and startup engineering teams by speaking their language and guiding technical architecture decisions
- Gather insights on how startups are building with Claude, identify emerging use cases and deployment patterns, and provide feedback to Product and Engineering teams
- Travel to customer sites, startup-focused events, and industry conferences for workshops, technical deep dives, and relationship building
Technologies
PythonLLM frameworksClaude Developer Platform
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