
Applied AI Architect, Enterprise Tech
Anthropic · New York City Metropolitan Area
- On site
- Full-time
- $277,500 / year
- New York City Metropolitan Area
Job highlights
- Architect LLM solutions for enterprise clients.
- Act as trusted technical advisor and pre-sales architect.
- Collaborate with Sales, Product, and Engineering teams.
- Guide customers from discovery to successful deployment.
- Focus on AI safety and reliability in solutions.
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 an Applied AI team member at Anthropic, you will be a Pre-Sales architect focused on becoming a trusted technical advisor helping large enterprises understand the value of Claude and paint the vision on how they can successfully integrate and deploy Claude into their technology stack. You'll combine your deep technical expertise with customer-facing skills to architect innovative LLM solutions that address complex business challenges while maintaining our high standards for safety and reliability.
Working closely with our Sales, Product, and Engineering teams, you'll guide customers from initial technical discovery through successful deployment. You'll leverage your expertise to help customers understand Claude's capabilities, develop evals, and design scalable architectures that maximize the value of our AI systems.
Responsibilities
- Partner with account executives to deeply understand customer requirements and translate them into technical solutions, ensuring alignment between business objectives and technical implementation
- Serve as the primary technical advisor to enterprise customers throughout their Claude adoption journey, from discovery to initial evaluation through deployment. You will need to coordinate internally across multiple teams & stakeholders to drive customer success
- Support customers building with both the API and Claude for Work
- Create and deliver compelling technical content tailored to different audiences. You will need to be able to spread the gamut from technical deep dives for engineering & development teams up to business value focused conversations with executives
- Guide technical architecture decisions and help customers integrate Claude effectively into their existing technology stack
- Help customers develop evaluation frameworks to measure Claude's performance for their specific use cases
- Identify common integration patterns and contribute insights back to our Product and Engineering teams
- Travel occasionally to customer sites for workshops, technical deep dives, and relationship building
- Maintain strong knowledge of the latest developments in LLM capabilities and implementation patterns
You May Be a Good Fit If You Have
- 5+ years of experience in technical customer-facing roles such as Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, or Technical Account Manager
- Experience working with enterprise customers, navigating complex buying cycles involving multiple stakeholders
- Exceptional ability to build relationships with and communicate technical concepts to diverse stakeholders to include C-suite executives, engineering & IT teams, and more
- Strong technical communication skills with the ability to translate customer requirements between technical and business stakeholders
- Experience designing scalable cloud architectures and integrating with enterprise systems
- Comfortable with Python
- Familiarity with common LLM frameworks and tools or a background in machine learning or data science
- Excitement for engaging in cross-organizational collaboration, working through trade-offs, and balancing competing priorities
- A love of teaching, mentoring, and helping others succeed
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, able to convey complicated topics in easily understandable terms to a diverse set of external and internal stakeholders. You enjoy engaging in cross-organizational collaboration, working through trade-offs, and balancing competing priorities
- 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
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
$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.
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
Key skills/competency
- AI Architecture
- Enterprise Solutions
- Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Technical Sales
- Customer Relationship Management
- Cloud Architecture
- Python Development
- Machine Learning
- AI Safety
- Technical Communication
Skills & topics
- AI Architect
- Applied AI
- Enterprise Solutions
- LLM
- Sales Engineer
- Solutions Architect
- Technical Advisor
- Cloud Architecture
- Python
- Machine Learning
- AI Safety
- Customer Facing
- San Francisco
How to get hired
- Tailor your resume: Highlight experience in technical customer-facing roles and enterprise solutions. Emphasize skills in cloud architecture, Python, and LLM frameworks.
- Showcase communication skills: Provide examples of translating complex technical concepts for diverse stakeholders, including C-suite executives and engineering teams.
- Demonstrate AI passion: Articulate your understanding of AI safety and how you envision beneficial AI systems. Mention any experience with machine learning or data science.
- Prepare for hybrid work: Note your comfort with a hybrid work model requiring 3 days per week in the office.
- Understand their mission: Research Anthropic's commitment to reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems and tailor your application to align with their values.
Technical preparation
Behavioral questions
Frequently asked questions
- What is the application deadline for the Applied AI Architect role at Anthropic?
- Applications for the Applied AI Architect position at Anthropic are reviewed on a rolling basis, meaning there is no specific deadline to apply.
- What is the expected work arrangement for the Applied AI Architect role at Anthropic?
- This Applied AI Architect role at Anthropic operates on a hybrid model, requiring employees to be in the office at least 3 days per week.
- Does Anthropic sponsor visas for the Applied AI Architect position?
- Yes, Anthropic does sponsor visas for many roles. If an offer is extended for the Applied AI Architect position, they will make every reasonable effort to secure a visa with the help of an immigration lawyer.
- What is the compensation range for the Applied AI Architect role at Anthropic?
- The annual compensation for the Applied AI Architect role at Anthropic ranges from $240,000 to $315,000 USD On Target Earnings (OTE), which includes base salary and potential commissions/bonuses.
- What is the minimum education requirement for the Applied AI Architect position at Anthropic?
- The minimum education requirement for the Applied AI Architect role is a Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and professional experience.
- What kind of technical customer-facing experience is required for the Applied AI Architect role?
- Anthropic seeks at least 5 years of experience in technical customer-facing roles such as Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, or Technical Account Manager for this Applied AI Architect position.
- How does Anthropic ensure AI safety in the solutions designed by Applied AI Architects?
- Anthropic emphasizes AI safety and reliability. Applied AI Architects are expected to maintain high standards for safety and steerability in the LLM solutions they design and architect for enterprise clients.
- What programming languages are important for the Applied AI Architect role?
- Python is a required skill for the Applied AI Architect role. Familiarity with common LLM frameworks and tools is also beneficial.