As a member of the National Security Policy team at Anthropic, you will work directly with strategic national security customers and partners to drive transformational AI adoption. You will leverage your technical skills to architect innovative solutions that address customers' business needs, meet technical requirements, and provide reliability and safety. In collaboration with Sales, Product, Research, and Engineering teams, you’ll help national security partners develop strategies and implementation plans to integrate leading‑edge AI systems into their mission. You will also play a critical role in identifying opportunities to innovate and differentiate Anthropic’s AI systems, while maintaining best‑in‑class safety standards. The role requires autonomous operation, thriving under ambiguity, and representing Anthropic at high levels in customer environments.
Solutions Architect, National Security at Anthropic
Hybrid - Washington, DC, USA
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USD 270,000 - 345,000
Requirements
Skills
- Active TS/SCI security clearance (required)
- 2+ years of experience as a Customer Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, or Platform Engineer within the National Security space
- Exceptional ability to build relationships with and communicate technical concepts to diverse stakeholders to include senior executives, engineering & IT teams, and more
- Experience in the defense, technology, or cybersecurity industries
- Experience designing novel and innovative solutions for technical platforms in a developing mission area
- Strong technical aptitude to partner with engineers and strong proficiency in at least one programming language (Python preferred)
- Understanding of and experience with LLM fundamentals
- The ability to navigate and execute amidst ambiguity, and to flex into different domains based on the business problem at hand, finding simple, easy-to-understand solutions
- Excitement for engaging in cross-organizational collaboration, working through trade-offs, and balancing competing priorities
- A love of teaching, mentoring, and helping others succeed
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, able to convey complicated topics in easily understandable terms to a diverse set of external and internal stakeholders
- 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
Responsibilities
- Act as a primary technical advisor for senior government leaders and prospective National Security customers evaluating Claude
- Partner closely with the policy team and sales account executives to understand customer requirements and develop customized pilots and prototypes
- Drive technical decision making by partnering on optimal setup, architecture, and integration of Claude into the customer's existing infrastructure
- Act as the voice of our customers and a key collaborator with our Product and Research teams to ensure we are delivering critical capabilities to the National Security community
- Travel to customer sites for senior leader meetings, AI implementation, technical enablement, and building relationships
- Establish a shared vision for creating solutions that enable beneficial and safe AI
- Lead the vision, strategy, and execution of innovative solutions that leverage our latest models’ capabilities
Technologies
PythonClaude
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