Forward Deployed Engineer at Anthropic

Anthropic builds Claude and hires applied/customer engineers to help enterprises deploy it safely and effectively. These Forward Deployed roles bridge Anthropic's research-driven product and real-world customer systems - implementing the Claude API and Agent SDK, designing retrieval and tool-use patterns, and ensuring reliable, well-governed rollouts. Openings vary with hiring cycles; this page tracks live Forward Deployed and customer-engineering roles at Anthropic as they're posted.

What Anthropic does

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that builds Claude, a family of large language models used by developers and enterprises. Its focus is on reliable, steerable, and safe AI, and its commercial business centers on the Claude API, the Agent SDK, and enterprise deployments. As adoption has scaled, Anthropic has built out Forward Deployed and Applied AI teams to get Claude working inside real customer systems.

Anthropic careers: the Forward Deployed / Applied AI role

Anthropic's forward-deployed and applied/customer-engineering roles sit between research-driven product and production customer environments. Day to day that means implementing the Claude API and Agent SDK, designing retrieval-augmented generation and tool-use patterns, building evals and guardrails, and making sure rollouts are reliable and well-governed. Anthropic careers in this area reward engineers who combine strong coding with genuine customer empathy and an interest in AI safety.

Compensation and how to apply

As a frontier AI lab, Anthropic sits at the top of the FDE compensation market, with total packages well above traditional solutions-engineering roles and a large equity component. Roles are concentrated in San Francisco with some remote flexibility, and openings move with hiring cycles - the open roles listed above are pulled from live postings so you can apply directly.

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