Solutions Architect, National Security

About Anthropic

Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems, aiming for AI to be safe and beneficial for users and society. The team comprises committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders collaborating to build beneficial AI.

About The Role

As a Solutions Architect, National Security at Anthropic, you will directly engage with strategic national security customers and partners to drive transformative AI adoption. This role leverages technical skills to architect innovative, reliable, and safe solutions that address customer business needs and technical requirements.

You will collaborate with Sales, Product, Research, and Engineering teams to assist national security partners in developing strategies and implementation plans for integrating leading-edge AI systems into their mission. Exceptional communication skills are essential to persuasively explain complex solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences. This position is also critical in identifying opportunities for innovation and differentiation of AI systems while upholding Anthropic's best-in-class safety standards. Team members are expected to operate autonomously, thrive under ambiguity, and represent Anthropic at the highest level in customer environments.

Core Responsibilities

• Act as a primary technical advisor for senior government leaders and prospective National Security customers evaluating Claude.
• Demonstrate how Claude supports U.S. and democratic allies’ national security operations and addresses customer use cases through proofs of concept.
• Provide technical guidance on integration, deployment, and adoption best practices.
• Partner closely with the policy team and sales account executives to understand customer requirements.
• Develop customized pilots, prototypes, and evaluation suites to advocate for customer adoption.
• Drive technical decision-making by partnering on optimal setup, architecture, and integration of Claude into the customer's existing infrastructure.
• Demonstrate solutions to technical roadblocks.
• Act as the voice of our customers and a key collaborator with our Product and Research teams to ensure critical capabilities are delivered to the National Security community.
• Travel to customer sites for senior leader meetings, AI implementation, technical enablement, and relationship building.
• Establish a shared vision for creating solutions that enable beneficial and safe AI.
• Lead the vision, strategy, and execution of innovative solutions leveraging Anthropic’s latest models’ capabilities.

Candidate Qualifications

You may be a good fit if you have:

• Active TS/SCI security clearance (required).
• 2+ years of experience as a Customer Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, or Platform Engineer within the National Security space.
• Exceptional ability to build relationships with and communicate technical concepts to diverse stakeholders, including senior executives, engineering & IT teams.
• Experience in the defense, technology, or cybersecurity industries.
• Experience designing novel and innovative solutions for technical platforms in a developing mission area.
• 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, flex into different domains, and find simple, easy-to-understand solutions.
• 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 diverse external and internal stakeholders.
• Passion for thinking creatively about safe and beneficial technology use that furthers the goal of advancing safe AI systems.

Logistics

• Education requirements: At least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Location-based hybrid policy: Staff are expected to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time.
• Visa sponsorship: Available, with reasonable efforts made for successful candidates.

Key skills/competency

• Solutions Architecture
• National Security
• Large Language Models (LLM)
• Customer Engagement
• Technical Advisory
• AI Integration
• Python Programming
• Security Clearance (TS/SCI)
• Strategic Planning
• Cross-functional Collaboration