Solutions Architect / Forward Deployed Engineer

As a member of the Solutions Architects team at Anthropic, you will drive the adoption of frontier AI by developing bespoke LLM solutions for top enterprises. You’ll leverage your consultative sales experience and technical skills to architect innovative solutions that address our customers' business needs, meet their technical requirements, and provide a high degree of reliability and safety. 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: Act as the primary technical advisor for prospective customers evaluating Claude. Demonstrate how Claude can address the customer's use cases through proofs of concept. Provide technical guidance on integration, deployment, and adoption best practices. Partner closely with account executives to understand customer requirements. Configure Claude's capabilities to showcase how it meets the customer's needs. Develop customized pilots and prototypes, as well as evaluation suites to make the case for customer adoption. Drive technical decision making by advising on optimal setup, architecture, and integration of Claude into the customer's existing infrastructure. Recommend solutions to technical roadblocks. Support customer onboarding by working cross-functionally to ensure successful ramp and adoption. Serve as an ongoing technical advisor throughout implementation and beyond go-live. 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: 5+ years of experience as a Forward Deployed Engineer, Sales Engineer or Solutions Architect. Designed novel and innovative solutions for technical platforms in a developing business area. Strong technical aptitude to partner with engineers and proficiency in software engineering. The ability to navigate and execute amidst ambiguity, and to flex into different domains based on the business problem at hand, finding 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 a diverse set of external and internal stakeholders. 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. Annual Salary The expected salary range for this position is $250k - $375k USD. Hybrid policy & US visa sponsorship: Currently, we expect all staff to be in our office at least 25% of the time. We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate; operations roles are especially difficult to support. 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. Compensation and Benefits Anthropic’s compensation package consists of three elements: salary, equity, and benefits. We are committed to pay fairness and aim for these three elements collectively to be highly competitive with market rates. US Benefits - The following benefits are for our US-based employees: Optional equity donation matching at a 3:1 ratio, up to 50% of your equity grant. Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and all your dependents. 401(k) plan with 4% matching. 22 weeks of paid parental leave. Unlimited PTO – most staff take between 4-6 weeks each year, sometimes more! Stipends for education, home office improvements, commuting, and wellness. Fertility benefits via Carrot. Daily lunches and snacks in our office. Relocation support for those moving to the Bay Area.

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