Anthropic

Anthropic

Applied AI Engineer, Public Sector

Washington, DC · Mid · Contract

No sponsorship$280k-$320kDetected 10 days ago
TypeScriptPythonCode ReviewMachine LearningData ScienceNLPLLMsLogisticsCustomer SuccessResearchCommunicationCollaboration

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64Sponsors, lottery-bound
Cap-exempt (no lottery)0
Sponsors this role100
Entry-level history0
PERM / green-card track0
Lottery odds (Level IV)94
Fits your clock70

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H-1B wage level

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Level IV · 4×
Level I$102,0861 entry
Level II$127,4622 entries
Level III$152,8383 entries
Level IV$178,2144 entries

This range already reaches Level IV — the maximum four lottery entries.

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About the role

  • As a member of the Applied AI team at Anthropic, you will be an Applied AI Engineer supporting a dedicated national security mission program.
  • Working closely with our Sales, Product, and Engineering teams, you'll guide the customer from technical discovery through successful deployment, much of it on-site in secure environments.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a specialist technical advisor for one or more national security mission programs, from discovery and evaluation through deployment and adoption, coordinating internally across multiple teams to drive customer success
  • Support the customer as they build with Claude Code, the Claude API, and Claude for Enterprise
  • Partner with account executives and Applied AI Architects to translate mission requirements into technical solutions
  • Influence technical architecture decisions and integration into the customer's existing stack by developing customized pilots, prototypes, and evaluation suites
  • Help develop evaluation frameworks to measure Claude's performance for mission-specific use cases
  • Lead hands-on technical workshops and code reviews with customer engineering teams
  • Identify common design patterns and contribute insights back to our Product and Engineering teams
  • Create and deliver technical content, from engineering deep dives to executive briefings
  • Maintain strong knowledge of the latest developments in LLM capabilities, implementation patterns, and AI product development stacks
  • We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications.

Requirements

  • Strong programming skills with proficiency in Python or TypeScript and experience building production applications
  • Hands-on expertise in one or more of the following domains:
  • Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
  • Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
  • Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Nice to have

  • Production experience with LLMs, including advanced prompt engineering, agent development and frameworks, evaluation frameworks, transcript analysis, MCP, and deployment at scale
  • Experience deploying and operating software in air-gapped or classified environments
  • Experience designing scalable cloud architectures and integrating with enterprise systems
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity and execute across domains with intellectual openness, finding simple solutions to complex problems
  • High cooperation mindset for cross-organizational collaboration, balancing competing priorities with integrity
  • Passion for advancing safe, beneficial AI systems through creative technical applications
  • Deadline to apply: None.
  • Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Compensation

  • $280,000 - $320,000 USD

Company info

  • We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.
  • At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts.
  • We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • We do sponsor visas!
  • However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate.
  • But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
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