Applied AI Engineer, Public Sector at Anthropic

On-site - Washington, DC, USA

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As a member of the Applied AI team at Anthropic, you will be an Applied AI Engineer supporting a dedicated national security mission program. You will be the customer's trusted technical advisor, working closely with their engineering and mission teams as they build and ship new capabilities powered by Claude. The role involves guiding customers from technical discovery through successful deployment, primarily on‑site in secure environments.

Salary

USD 280,000 - 320,000

Requirements

Skills

  • Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph
  • Prior experience working within US intelligence community agencies as a government civilian or cleared contractor
  • 4+ years of experience in technical roles such as Forward Deployed Engineer, Product Engineer, Software Engineer, or Technical Product Manager, with a desire to work closely with customers
  • Strong programming skills with proficiency in Python or TypeScript and experience building production applications
  • Hands‑on expertise in offensive or defensive cyber operations (including vulnerability research, reverse engineering, and IC/OT security), cryptography and cryptanalysis, intelligence analysis and ISR (all‑source, SIGINT, GEOINT), mission and weapons systems (command and control, space, electronic warfare, autonomy), CBRN and nonproliferation, accreditation of classified systems (RMF, ATO, cross‑domain solutions)
  • Exceptional communication skills to convey technical concepts to diverse stakeholders, from engineers to executives, while maintaining a low ego and collaborative approach

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a specialist technical advisor for one or more national security mission programs, from discovery and evaluation through deployment and adoption, coordinating internally across multiple teams to drive customer success
  • Support the customer as they build with Claude Code, the Claude API, and Claude for Enterprise
  • Partner with account executives and Applied AI Architects to translate mission requirements into technical solutions
  • Influence technical architecture decisions and integration into the customer's existing stack by developing customized pilots, prototypes, and evaluation suites
  • Help develop evaluation frameworks to measure Claude's performance for mission‑specific use cases
  • Lead hands‑on technical workshops and code reviews with customer engineering teams
  • Identify common design patterns and contribute insights back to our Product and Engineering teams
  • Create and deliver technical content, from engineering deep dives to executive briefings
  • Maintain strong knowledge of the latest developments in LLM capabilities, implementation patterns, and AI product development stacks
  • Work primarily on‑site with the customer's engineering and mission teams in secure government facilities, while maintaining close internal coordination and feedback with Anthropic's Applied AI and Engineering teams

Technologies

PythonTypeScriptClaude (Code, API, Enterprise)Large Language Models (LLMs)Advanced prompt engineeringAgent developmentEvaluation frameworksCloud architecture

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