Applied AI Engineer

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

As a member of the Applied AI team at Anthropic, you will drive the adoption of frontier AI by developing bespoke LLM solutions for top enterprises across Japan. You’ll leverage your customer-facing 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.

What it asks for · 10

• 4+ years of experience as a Technical Product Manager, Forward Deployed Engineer, or Platform Engineer
• Native-level Japanese fluency and business-level English required
• Designed novel and innovative solutions for technical platforms in a developing business area across Japan
• Strong technical aptitude to partner with engineers and strong proficiency in Python required
• Recent experience building production systems with large language models
• 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

What the job covers

• Act as the primary technical advisor for prospective customers across Japan evaluating Claude. Demonstrate how Claude can be used to solve high value business problems by developing system architectures and leveraging novel prompting techniques
• 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 across Japan 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 across Japan

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Words the posting leans on

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• customer8×
• solutions8×
• japan5×
• systems5×
• business4×
• claude4×
• adoption3×
• developing3×
• engineer3×
• experience3×
• innovative solutions3×
• partner3×
• product3×
• safe3×
• skills3×

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