Applied AI Architect, International Policy

Anthropic•San Francisco, NY

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

As a member of Anthropic’s International Policy Applied AI team, the Applied AI Architect serves as a trusted technical advisor to governments, AI Safety Institutes (AISIs), and multilateral institutions. The role uses technical expertise and experience with government partners to help them understand, test, and apply frontier AI to public missions with reliability and safety. It supports Anthropic’s policy, mission, and public benefit goals. Working with Policy, Product, Research, and Engineering teams, the role helps partners develop strategies and plans for evaluating and adopting leading-edge AI systems. It explains complex topics—including potential benefits and harms of frontier AI—to technical and non-technical audiences, and identifies ways Anthropic’s AI systems can serve public interests while maintaining strong safety standards. The position includes advising senior officials, designing demonstrations and prototypes, leading technical onboarding and workshops, guiding integrations with Claude Code and the Claude API, and representing international partners’ needs to internal teams. International travel is required for partner meetings, technical enablement, and relationship building.

Requirements

At least 4 years of experience as a Customer Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, or Cybersecurity Engineer, working with governments, international organizations, or the public sector.
Experience in technology policy, AI safety, cybersecurity, or international affairs.
Experience designing novel and innovative solutions for technical platforms in a developing mission area.
Familiarity with how AI models are evaluated and tested for safety.
Strong technical aptitude for partnering with engineers and proficiency in at least one programming language; Python is preferred.
Understanding of and experience with LLM fundamentals.
Ability to navigate and execute amid ambiguity, flex across domains based on the problem, and find simple, understandable solutions.
Ability to collaborate across organizations, work through trade-offs, and balance competing priorities.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including explaining complicated topics clearly to diverse internal and external stakeholders, from engineers to senior government officials.
Passion for using technology creatively and safely to advance beneficial AI systems.
Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
Education or training in a field relevant to the role, demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.

Responsibilities

Act as a primary technical advisor to senior officials in partner governments, AISIs, and international institutions.
Brief partners on frontier AI capabilities, provide an honest account of benefits and harms, and explain safety research in terms that inform their decisions.
Work with the Policy team to understand each partner’s goals and requirements.
Develop demos, pilots, prototypes, and evaluation suites that demonstrate how Claude can support public missions, such as cyber defense.
Lead technical onboarding, enablement, and hands-on workshops for partner institutions, including national cybersecurity agencies.
Guide partners on setup, architecture, and integration as they build with Claude Code and the Claude API.
Represent international partners’ needs and collaborate with Product and Research to help deliver the capabilities they need.
Travel internationally to meet partner institutions, engage senior leaders, provide technical enablement, and build relationships.
Establish a shared vision for creating solutions that enable beneficial and safe AI.
Lead the vision, strategy, and execution of innovative solutions leveraging the capabilities of Anthropic’s latest models.