Applied AI Engineer, Beneficial Deployments

Anthropic•San Francisco, NY

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

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, Beneficial Deployments team at Anthropic, you will be a technical Product Engineer focused on enabling organizations that create positive societal impact to successfully integrate Claude into their work. You'll partner with organizations in sectors like education, healthcare, scientific research, and nonprofits to help them leverage AI for meaningful outcomes. You'll combine deep engineering expertise with customer-facing skills to help these organizations understand the potential of working with LLMs and build innovative solutions that address complex challenges while maintaining our high standards for safety and reliability. Working closely with our Sales, Product, and Engineering teams, you'll guide beneficial deployment partners from initial technical discovery through successful implementation. You'll leverage your engineering expertise to help customers understand Claude's capabilities, develop evaluation frameworks, and design scalable architectures that maximize both technical value and positive impact.

Requirements

2+ years of experience in technical customer-facing roles such as Customer Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Sales Engineer, or Platform Engineer
Experience working with educational institutions, healthcare organizations, research groups, nonprofits, or other mission-driven customers, understanding their unique challenges and constraints
Strong programming skills with proficiency in Python and experience building production applications
Expertise working with common LLM implementation patterns, prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, agent frameworks, and retrieval frameworks
Proven ability to develop technical prototypes and demos that showcase practical applications for social impact use cases
Exceptional ability to build relationships with and communicate technical concepts to diverse stakeholders in mission-driven environments, from researchers to nonprofit directors to engineering teams
Strong technical communication skills with the ability to create scalable content (documentation, tutorials, sample code) that reaches a broad audience across different sectors
A passion for using technology to create positive societal impact and understanding of the unique technical and organizational challenges faced by mission-driven organizations
Excitement for engaging in cross-organizational collaboration, working through trade-offs, and balancing competing priorities in a high-velocity environment
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
We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

Partner with account executives to deeply understand requirements from mission-driven organizations and architect technical solutions, ensuring alignment between social impact objectives and technical implementation
Serve as the primary technical advisor to beneficial deployment partners throughout their Claude adoption journey, from discovery through deployment, coordinating internally across multiple teams to drive customer success
Design and develop proof-of-concept applications and prototypes that demonstrate Claude integration patterns specific to education, healthcare, research, and nonprofit use cases
Create and deliver technical content tailored for impact-focused audiences through scaled events including hackathons, webinars, and community workshops
Build compelling demos that showcase practical integration strategies for organizations working on societal challenges
Guide technical architecture decisions and help partners build state-of-the-art systems with LLMs that advance their missions
Help organizations develop lightweight evaluation frameworks and testing suites to measure Claude's performance for their specific impact-driven use cases
Lead hands-on technical workshops and code reviews with engineering teams at mission-driven organizations
Identify common integration patterns within beneficial deployment sectors and contribute insights back to our Product and Engineering teams
Foster community engagement through technical office hours, developer forums, and impact-focused events
Maintain strong knowledge of the latest developments in LLM capabilities, implementation patterns, and technology applications in education, healthcare, and social good