Anthropic
Head of Applied AI
Anthropic, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
About the role:
As the leader of the Applied AI team at Anthropic, you will drive the adoption of frontier AI by developing bespoke LLM solutions for top enterprises. You’ll leverage your technical skills and consultative sales experience to architect innovative solutions that address our customers' business needs, meet their technical requirements, and provide a high degree of reliability and safety. You’ll also lead the Applied AI team, establish processes and best practices for client engagements based on your years of experience, help each team member achieve success, high productivity, and career growth, and represent Anthropic as a technical lead on some of its most important partnerships.In collaboration with the Sales, Product, and Engineering teams, you’ll help enterprise partners incorporate leading-edge AI systems into their robust end-to-end systems. You will employ your excellent communication skills to explain and demonstrate complex solutions persuasively to technical and non-technical audiences alike. You will play a critical role in identifying opportunities to innovate and differentiate our AI systems, while maintaining our best-in-class safety standards.Responsibilities:
Manage and mentor our Applied AI Product and Finetuning Engineer teams, providing both technical guidance and career development
Set goals and reviews for your team, promoting growth and output
Work with a handful of highest-value enterprise customers on their prompting strategies. Provide technical guidance on integration, deployment, and adoption best practices
Lead and support the team in complex evaluations, problem solving and challenging customer environments
Partner closely with GTM leadership to understand customer requirements
Drive collaboration from cross-functional teams to influence and unify stakeholders at all levels of the organization to drive business outcomes
Travel occasionally to customer sites for workshops, implementation support, 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
You may be a good fit if you have:
10+ years of experience as a Forward Deployed Engineer, Customer Engineer, Sales Engineer, or Solutions Architect
5+ years of engineering leadership experience, preferably in a customer-oriented engineering management role
Have an organizational mindset and enjoy building teams in a relatively unstructured environment
Have excellent communication, collaboration, and coaching abilities
Are comfortable dealing with highly uncertain, ambiguous, and fast-moving environments
Strong executive presence and ability to foster deep relationships with our customers
Have at least a high level familiarity with the architecture and operation of large language models and/or as ML in general
Have a working knowledge of programming in Python
Think holistically and can proactively identify the needs of an organization
Make ambiguous problems clear and identify core principles that can translate across scenarios
Have a passion for making powerful technology safe and societally beneficial
Think creatively about the risks and benefits of new technologies, and think beyond past checklists and playbooks
Stay up-to-date and informed by taking an active interest in emerging research and industry trends
Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
#J-18808-Ljbffr
As the leader of the Applied AI team at Anthropic, you will drive the adoption of frontier AI by developing bespoke LLM solutions for top enterprises. You’ll leverage your technical skills and consultative sales experience to architect innovative solutions that address our customers' business needs, meet their technical requirements, and provide a high degree of reliability and safety. You’ll also lead the Applied AI team, establish processes and best practices for client engagements based on your years of experience, help each team member achieve success, high productivity, and career growth, and represent Anthropic as a technical lead on some of its most important partnerships.In collaboration with the Sales, Product, and Engineering teams, you’ll help enterprise partners incorporate leading-edge AI systems into their robust end-to-end systems. You will employ your excellent communication skills to explain and demonstrate complex solutions persuasively to technical and non-technical audiences alike. You will play a critical role in identifying opportunities to innovate and differentiate our AI systems, while maintaining our best-in-class safety standards.Responsibilities:
Manage and mentor our Applied AI Product and Finetuning Engineer teams, providing both technical guidance and career development
Set goals and reviews for your team, promoting growth and output
Work with a handful of highest-value enterprise customers on their prompting strategies. Provide technical guidance on integration, deployment, and adoption best practices
Lead and support the team in complex evaluations, problem solving and challenging customer environments
Partner closely with GTM leadership to understand customer requirements
Drive collaboration from cross-functional teams to influence and unify stakeholders at all levels of the organization to drive business outcomes
Travel occasionally to customer sites for workshops, implementation support, 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
You may be a good fit if you have:
10+ years of experience as a Forward Deployed Engineer, Customer Engineer, Sales Engineer, or Solutions Architect
5+ years of engineering leadership experience, preferably in a customer-oriented engineering management role
Have an organizational mindset and enjoy building teams in a relatively unstructured environment
Have excellent communication, collaboration, and coaching abilities
Are comfortable dealing with highly uncertain, ambiguous, and fast-moving environments
Strong executive presence and ability to foster deep relationships with our customers
Have at least a high level familiarity with the architecture and operation of large language models and/or as ML in general
Have a working knowledge of programming in Python
Think holistically and can proactively identify the needs of an organization
Make ambiguous problems clear and identify core principles that can translate across scenarios
Have a passion for making powerful technology safe and societally beneficial
Think creatively about the risks and benefits of new technologies, and think beyond past checklists and playbooks
Stay up-to-date and informed by taking an active interest in emerging research and industry trends
Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
#J-18808-Ljbffr