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Forward Deployed Engineer

AI summary of the role

Anthropic's Applied AI team is hiring a founding Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with strategic enterprise customers, building production applications on Claude models.

What you’ll do

  • Build production applications with Claude models inside customer systems
  • Deliver technical artifacts like MCP servers, sub-agents, and agent skills for production workflows
  • Provide white-glove deployment support for Anthropic products in enterprise environments
  • Identify and codify repeatable deployment patterns, feeding insights back to Product and Engineering

What you’ll bring

  • 4+ years in technical customer-facing role (FDE, SWE with consulting, or technical founder)
  • Production experience with LLMs: prompt engineering, agent development, evaluation frameworks, deployment at scale
  • Strong Python proficiency (plus TypeScript/Java ideal) and experience shipping production applications
  • High agency and ability to navigate ambiguity in complex organizations

Technologies

Claude · LLM · prompt engineering · agent development · evaluation frameworks · Python · TypeScript · Java · MCP servers · sub-agents · agent skills

About Anthropic

Frontier AI lab building Claude — safety-focused foundation models sold via API, Claude.ai, Claude Code, and enterprise platform; ~80% revenue from business customers.

Series G

Source and classification

Production engineering · Evidence for this classification:

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 a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) who embeds directly with our most strategic customers to drive transformational AI adoption. You will collaborate closely with customer teams to ship advanced AI applications that solve real world business problems. Our FDEs engage with customers to accelerate the adoption of existing products and create new applications built on our models. Working closely with our Post-Sales, Product, and Engineering teams, you'll combine engineering
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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 a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) who embeds directly with our most strategic customers to drive transformational AI adoption. You will collaborate closely with customer teams to ship advanced AI applications that solve real world business problems. Our FDEs engage with customers to accelerate the adoption of existing products and create new applications built on our models. Working closely with our Post-Sales, Product, and Engineering teams, you'll combine engineering expertise, an understanding of frontier AI applications, and customer-facing skills to understand customer workflows and develop innovative solutions that address complex business challenges while maintaining our high standards for safety and reliability. You will sit at the frontier of enterprise AI deployments and serve as one of our founding FDEs who helps to shape our forward-deployed motion. We expect our FDEs to operate autonomously, thrive under ambiguity, and represent Anthropic at the highest [... source excerpt omitted ...] environments. This is a significant responsibility: you’ll play a key role in championing our mission in the enterprise. Responsibilities: Work within customer systems to build production applications with Claude models, ensuring that these products meet customer requirements. Deliver technical artifacts for customers like MCP servers, sub-agents, and agent skills that will be used in production workflows. Provide white glove deployment support for Anthropic products in enterprise environments. Identify and codify repeatable deployment patterns and contribute insights back to our Product and Engineering teams. Maintain strong knowledge of the latest developments in LLM capab [... source excerpt omitted ...] term relationships with customers and proactively identify new opportunities for AI deployment throughout the lifecycle of an engagement. Potential Travel (based on location) to customer sites to build in person with customers. - Estimated 25% Be a champion for Anthropic’s mission in the field. You May Be a Good Fit If You Have: 4+ years of experience in a technical, customer facing role such as Forward Deployed Engineer, or as a Software Engineer with consulting experience. Former technical founders are also encouraged to apply. Production experience with LLMs including advanced prompt engineering, agent development, evaluation frameworks, and deployment at scale. Strong

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