> AI agents: this is one page of Nextmove’s FDE site, in Markdown. Nextmove is a job board and free career service for forward deployed engineers (FDEs). Each posting is classified from its text, not its title: the kind of work, how much of it is production code, pre-sales weight, time at customer sites, travel, remote arrangement, level and posted base pay. The site also publishes the aggregates: median pay by level, metro, company and kind of work, and which companies started hiring FDEs each week. Every page under https://nextmove.md/fde is served this way; the index of pages is https://nextmove.md/llms.txt. # Applied AI Engineer, Enterprise Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/61bf3caa773548de Anthropic posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in San Francisco, CA and 1 more, at $200,000–$320,000 base, above the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,864 postings with pay. An Applied AI Engineer advises enterprise technology customers adopting the Claude API, guiding them from technical discovery through production deployment. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Anthropic](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/anthropic) Posted Jan 8, 2026 by Anthropic · open on Greenhouse as of Nov 8, 2026 **$200,000–$320,000** San Francisco, CA +1 Hybrid Full-time An Applied AI Engineer advises enterprise technology customers adopting the Claude API, guiding them from technical discovery through production deployment. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F61bf3caa773548de&placement=top) - [View posting at Anthropic](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5057647008) Free. Upload your resume once, see why each FDE role fits, and get introduced only when you say so. ## At a glance ### Posted base pay $200K–$320K Above the median Midpoint $260K · median $190K This job $200K to $320K. Senior FDE postings, 1,864 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K. [Compare pay across all Anthropic postings](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary/anthropic) ### The work Builds what the customer runs Balance **Mixed** Project stages 1. Pre-sales 2. Proof of concept 3. Implementation 4. Operations Travel **Required, amount not stated** - **Coding**: Writes production code - **Builds for**: External customers - **Level**: Senior - **Role**: Technical lead ### What they ask for Experience - **4+ years** technical roles such as Forward Deployed Engineer, Product Engineer, Software Engineer, or Technical Product Manager Background - **Software engineering** - **Forward deployed engineering** Visa - **Sponsors visas** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting asks for 4+ years. How many do you have? The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now? The job is in San Francisco, CA · New York, NY. Could you work in one of these? 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[What postings ask for, by background →](https://nextmove.md/fde/paths) ## Conditions - **Location**: San Francisco, CA · New York, NY - **Work arrangement**: Hybrid - **Remote work restrictions**: Hybrid; requires 3 days in office per week. - **Employment type**: Full-time - **Visa sponsorship**: Available - **Travel**: Travel required, amount not stated - **Pay**: ## More like this [OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai) ### [Applied AI Engineer, API Platform, Digital Natives](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/12c0a1bb874a9897) San Francisco, CA · Seattle, WA Hybrid 4mo ago $251,000–$278,000 [Edison Scientific](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/edison-scientific) ### [Forward Deployed AI Engineer ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d999f8040fbafe9a) San Francisco, CA On-site 4mo ago $200,000–$300,000 [Apollo Research](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/apollo-research) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer (Product)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/7394fd0a5648bf6e) San Francisco, CA On-site 2mo ago $222,000–$290,000 - [Other jobs at Anthropic (8)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/anthropic) ## The job description from Anthropic Posted by Anthropic on Jan 8, 2026 ### About Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. **About the role:** As a member of the Applied AI team at Anthropic, you will be an Applied AI Engineer focused on becoming a trusted technical advisor to Enterprise Technology companies adopting the Claude API into their core products. You will work closely with customer product and engineering teams as they ship new products powered by Claude: advising on architecture design decisions, developing evaluation frameworks, and guiding customers through the most cutting-edge implementation patterns for LLMs. Working closely with our Sales, Product, and Engineering teams, you'll guide a focused portfolio of customers from technical discovery through successful deployment. You'll combine deep engineering expertise with customer-facing skills to help customers unlock the full potential of the Claude API and move their products closer to the frontier, while maintaining our high standards for safety and reliability. ### Responsibilities - Serve as a specialist technical advisor to Anthropic customers as they deploy new products & workflows with our models: from discovery through deployment, coordinating internally across multiple teams to drive customer success - Partner with account executives and Applied AI Architects to translate customer business requirements into technical solutions - Influence technical architecture decisions and customer product strategy by developing customized pilots, prototypes, and evaluation suites - 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 scalable public and internal assets documenting the latest LLM prompting, eval, agentic, and architecture techniques - Maintain strong knowledge of the latest developments in LLM capabilities, implementation patterns, and AI product development stacks - Travel occasionally to customer sites for workshops, implementation support, and building relationships - Attend conferences, lead speaking engagements, and write blog posts and white papers on topics surrounding the AI space ### You may be a good fit if you have - 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. Former technical founders are also encouraged to apply. - Production experience with LLMs, including advanced prompt engineering, agent development and frameworks, evaluation frameworks, transcript analysis, MCP, and deployment at scale - Strong programming skills with proficiency in Python or TypeScript and experience building production applications - Ability to navigate ambiguity and execute across domains with intellectual openness, finding simple solutions to complex problems - High cooperation mindset for cross-organizational collaboration, balancing competing priorities with integrity - Passion for advancing safe, beneficial AI systems through creative technical applications - Exceptional communication skills to convey technical concepts to diverse stakeholders while maintaining a low ego and collaborative approach ### Please note this role requires 3 days in office per week. **Deadline to apply: **None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. Annual Salary: $200,000—$320,000 USD ### Logistics **Minimum education: **Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience **Required field of study: **A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience **Minimum years of experience: **Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position **Location-based hybrid policy:** Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices. **Visa sponsorship:** We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this. **For roles performing work in California: **We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records or criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act. **We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification.** Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team. **Your safety matters to us.** To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings. ### How we're different We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills. The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences. ### Come work with us! Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. **Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage:** Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process. [View posting at Anthropic](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5057647008) ## About Anthropic AI safety and research company building reliable, interpretable, steerable AI systems and deploying Claude through products and partnerships. 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