About this role
Embedding directly with strategic customer teams, the new team member drives transformational AI adoption by shipping advanced applications that solve real-world business challenges. Collaborating closely with Post-Sales, Product, and Engineering groups, the person in the role combines technical expertise with customer-facing skills to understand workflows, build production applications with Claude models, and deliver technical artifacts like MCP servers, sub-agents, and agent skills.
Anthropic builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems designed to be safe and beneficial for society. Serving as a founding Forward Deployed Engineer on the Applied AI team, the person helps shape the forward-deployed motion while operating autonomously and thriving under ambiguity in complex enterprise environments. Ideal candidates are high-agency technical professionals with a strong cooperation mindset who can represent the organization at the highest level while traveling frequently to customer sites.
What you will do
- Embed within customer systems to build production applications utilizing Claude models that satisfy client requirements.
- Deliver technical artifacts including Model Context Protocol servers, sub-agents, and agent skills for use in live production workflows.
- Provide white glove deployment support for company products across complex enterprise environments.
- Identify and codify repeatable deployment patterns to share insights back with product and engineering teams.
- Maintain a deep understanding of current developments in large language model capabilities, implementation patterns, and development stacks.
- Cultivate long-term customer relationships and proactively discover new opportunities for deployment throughout the engagement lifecycle.
- Travel frequently between 25% and 50% of the time to collaborate in person at customer sites.
What you need
- Bring at least four years of experience in a technical, customer-facing role such as a forward-deployed engineer, software engineer with consulting background, or as a technical founder.
- Demonstrate production experience with large language models covering advanced prompt engineering, agent development, evaluation frameworks, and scaling deployments.
- Possess strong programming skills with proficiency in Python alongside working knowledge of additional languages like TypeScript or Java.
- Exhibit high agency and the ability to navigate ambiguity effectively within complex organizational structures.
- Maintain a high cooperation mindset for cross-organizational collaboration while balancing competing priorities with integrity.
- Communicate effectively to conduct discovery sessions and convey complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders.
Nice to have
- A background in financial services, healthcare, or life sciences enterprise verticals
- Experience with enterprise IT systems and AI deployment patterns
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
- Office space to collaborate with colleagues
Skills and tech stack
Questions candidates ask
What is the remote or in-office policy for this position?
The position features a location-based hybrid policy where staff are expected to be in an office at least 25% of the time, though specific roles may require additional office time.
What is the salary range for this role?
The annual compensation range for this London-based role is set between £225,000 and £255,000 GBP.
Will visa sponsorship be provided for successful applicants?
The organization does sponsor visas and retains an immigration lawyer to assist candidates who receive an offer, making every reasonable effort to secure authorization.
How much travel is required in this customer-facing position?
Forward Deployed Engineers travel frequently between 25% and 50% of the time to build in person at customer sites.