Applied AI Architect, Democratic Partnerships

About the role

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, Democratic Partnerships team at Anthropic you will provide technical support to the governments of key international allies and civil-sector partners to support democratic resilience. Near-term work focuses on a few priority countries and partners, and will continue to expand with capacity. This role serves Anthropic's mission and public benefit goals.

In collaboration with the Policy, National Security, Product, Research, and Engineering teams, you'll help partners build, integrate, and ship Claude deployments. You will use your excellent communication skills to explain complex topics, including the potential benefits and harms of frontier AI, to technical and non-technical audiences alike. You will also play a critical role in identifying how our AI systems can best serve public interests in frontline democracies, while maintaining our best-in-class safety standards.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with partner technical teams to build and ship Claude deployments. Guide their setup, architecture, and integration as they build with Claude Code and the Claude API.

• Build pilots and repeatable workflows that can scale across partner agencies, and support developer and university enablement.

• Document how to deploy Claude in low-connectivity, multilingual, and security-conscious environments, for reuse across partners.

• Act as the voice of our partners in frontline democracies and a key collaborator with our Product and Research teams to ensure we deliver the capabilities they need.

• Travel internationally to partner institutions for 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.

• Support partner deployments in areas such as education, cyber resiliency and global health.

You may be a good fit if you have

• 4+ years of experience as a Customer Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, or Cybersecurity Engineer, working with governments, civil-sector organizations, or the public sector

• Experience shipping software in imperfect conditions, and a practical approach to infrastructure constraints

• Designed novel and innovative solutions for technical platforms in a developing mission area

• Comfort working directly with partner technical teams, and motivation to work on deployments where the stakes are civic rather than commercial

• 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 problem at hand, finding simple, easy-to-understand solutions

• Excitement for engaging in cross-organizational collaboration, working through trade-offs, and balancing competing priorities

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, able to convey complicated topics in easily understandable terms to a diverse set of external and internal stakeholders, from engineers to senior government officials

• 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

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:

$240,000—$315,000 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.
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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.