Forward Deployed Engineer

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

As a member of the Applied AI team at Anthropic, you will be a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) who embeds directly with our most strategic customers to drive transformational AI adoption. You will collaborate closely with customer teams to ship advanced AI applications that solve real world business problems. Our FDEs engage with customers to accelerate the adoption of existing products and create new applications built on our models.

What it asks for · 10

• 4+ years of experience in a technical, customer facing role such as Forward Deployed Engineer, or as a Software Engineer with consulting experience. Former technical founders are also encouraged to apply.
• Production experience with LLMs including advanced prompt engineering, agent development, evaluation frameworks, and deployment at scale.
• Strong programming skills with proficiency in Python (and ideally in one or more additional languages like Typescript, Java, etc) and experience shipping production applications
• High agency with an ability to navigate ambiguity present in complex organizations.
• High cooperation mindset for cross-organizational collaboration, balancing competing priorities with integrity.
• Passion for advancing safe, beneficial AI systems through creative technical applications.
• Strong communication skills to conduct discovery with customers and to convey technical concepts to diverse stakeholders while maintaining a low ego and collaborative approach.
• A background in financial services, healthcare/life sciences, or another enterprise vertical is a plus.
• Experience with enterprise IT systems and/or AI deployment patterns is a plus.
• Experience working as an FDE or in a professional services context is a plus.

What the job covers

• Work within customer systems to build production applications with Claude models, ensuring that these products meet customer requirements.
• Deliver technical artifacts for customers like MCP servers, sub-agents, and agent skills that will be used in production workflows.
• Provide white glove deployment support for Anthropic products in enterprise environments.
• Identify and codify repeatable deployment patterns and contribute insights back to our Product and Engineering teams.
• Maintain strong knowledge of the latest developments in LLM capabilities, implementation patterns, and AI product development stacks.
• Build long term relationships with customers and proactively identify new opportunities for AI deployment throughout the lifecycle of an engagement.
• Potential Travel (based on location) to customer sites to build in person with customers. - Estimated 25%
• Be a champion for Anthropic’s mission in the field.

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• customer13×
• applications6×
• deployment6×
• experience6×
• product6×
• enterprise5×
• fdes5×
• technical5×
• engineering4×
• production4×
• skills4×
• build3×
• development3×
• systems3×
• adoption2×
• advanced2×

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