6 hours ago
Washington, DC, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$280k - $320k/yr
Responsibilities
- Serve as a technical advisor for national security mission programs from discovery and evaluation through deployment and adoption.
- Support customers building with Claude Code, the Claude API, and Claude for Enterprise.
- Translate mission requirements into technical solutions with account executives and Applied AI Architects.
- Develop customized pilots, prototypes, evaluation suites, and technical architecture recommendations.
- Develop evaluation frameworks for mission-specific Claude use cases.
- Lead customer workshops and code reviews, create technical content, and deliver executive briefings.
- Share common design patterns and customer insights with Product and Engineering teams.
- Work primarily on-site with customer engineering and mission teams in secure government facilities.
Requirements
- Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.
- Prior experience as a US intelligence-community government civilian or cleared contractor.
- At least 4 years of experience in technical roles such as Forward Deployed Engineer, Product Engineer, Software Engineer, or Technical Product Manager.
- Strong programming skills in Python or TypeScript and experience building production applications.
- Hands-on expertise in offensive or defensive cyber operations, cryptography, intelligence analysis and ISR, mission and weapons systems, CBRN and nonproliferation, or classified-system accreditation.
- Exceptional communication and collaboration skills across engineering and executive stakeholders.
- Preferred: production LLM experience, including prompt engineering, agent development, evaluation frameworks, transcript analysis, MCP, and deployment at scale.
- Preferred: experience with air-gapped or classified environments, scalable cloud architectures, enterprise integrations, or artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience in a relevant field.
Benefits
- Annual salary range of $280,000–$320,000 USD.
- Visa sponsorship is offered, with reasonable efforts made if an offer is extended, although sponsorship cannot be successfully provided for every role or candidate.
- Staff are generally expected to be in an Anthropic office at least 25% of the time, while this role may require more time on-site with customers.
- Flexible working hours, generous vacation and parental leave, optional equity donation matching, and office collaboration space.
- Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis with no stated deadline.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Anthropic
Anthropic builds large language models and the Claude AI assistant for developers and enterprises, offered via API access and enterprise plans. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco, it distributes Claude through its own platform and via partners such as Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI. Its work emphasizes model reliability, interpretability, and practical tooling for tasks like coding assistance, analysis, and customer support automation.