Anthropic

Applied AI Architect, Startups

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San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USAMid Level
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$240k - $315k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Account Executives to understand startup requirements, translate them into technical solutions, and advise customers throughout adoption, deployment, and expansion.
  • Lead technical evaluations and help startups develop frameworks to measure Claude performance for their use cases.
  • Guide founders and startup engineering teams on technical architecture decisions and demonstrate Claude’s capabilities.
  • Gather startup implementation insights and emerging deployment patterns for Product and Engineering feedback.
  • Travel to customer sites, startup-focused events, and industry conferences for workshops, technical deep dives, and relationship building.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience in technical customer-facing roles such as Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, or technical founder with founder-led sales experience.
  • Experience working with startups or high-growth technology companies.
  • Software engineering or technical-founder experience demonstrating strong builder credibility.
  • Deep technical proficiency building and scaling AI products, including hands-on production deployment of LLM-powered applications.
  • Expertise in context engineering, evaluation frameworks, and modern AI architectures.
  • Strong technical communication skills and the ability to translate complex AI concepts into actionable guidance.
  • Track record of selling technical products in competitive markets.
  • Comfort with Python and familiarity with common LLM frameworks, tools, and integration patterns.
  • Passion for making powerful technology safe and societally beneficial.
  • Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience in a relevant field.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work with staff expected to work from an Anthropic office at least 25% of the time, with some roles requiring more office time.
  • Visa sponsorship may be available, with immigration-lawyer support.
  • Competitive benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and office collaboration space.

Tech Stack

Categories

Solutions Engineering
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About Anthropic

501-1,000 employees

We're an AI research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our first product is Claude, an AI assistant for tasks at any scale. Our research interests span multiple areas including natural language, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability.

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