Applied AI Architect, Public Sector (Federal Civilian)

Details

As a member of Anthropic's Applied AI team, you will serve as a pre-sales architect and trusted technical advisor for federal civilian agencies. You will help government customers understand the value of Claude and design successful approaches for integrating and deploying it within their technology stacks. You will combine deep technical expertise with customer-facing skills to architect innovative LLM solutions for complex mission challenges while maintaining high standards for safety and reliability.

Working closely with Sales, Product, and Engineering teams, you will guide customers from technical discovery through evaluation and deployment. You will help customers understand Claude's capabilities, develop evaluations, and design scalable architectures that maximize the value of Anthropic's AI systems.

Responsibilities

• Partner with account executives to understand customer requirements and translate them into technical solutions aligned with business objectives and technical implementation.
• Serve as the primary technical advisor to enterprise customers throughout their Claude adoption journey, from discovery and initial evaluation through deployment.
• Coordinate internally across multiple teams and stakeholders to drive customer success.
• Support customers building with Claude Code, the Claude API, and Claude for Enterprise.
• Create and deliver technical content for diverse audiences, ranging from technical deep dives for engineering and development teams to business-value discussions with executives.
• Guide technical architecture decisions and help customers integrate Claude into their existing technology stacks.
• Help customers develop evaluation frameworks to measure Claude's performance for their specific use cases.
• Identify common integration patterns and contribute insights to Product and Engineering teams.
• Travel frequently to customer sites for workshops, technical deep dives, and relationship building.
• Maintain strong knowledge of the latest developments in LLM capabilities and implementation patterns.

Requirements

• Prior experience working with US federal agencies; experience with state and/or local agencies is also relevant.
• At least 5 years of experience in technical customer-facing roles such as Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, or Technical Account Manager.
• Experience navigating complex buying cycles involving multiple stakeholders.
• Exceptional relationship-building and communication skills, including the ability to communicate technical concepts to C-suite executives, engineering and IT teams, and other audiences.
• Strong technical communication skills and the ability to translate requirements between technical and business stakeholders.
• Experience designing scalable cloud architectures and integrating with enterprise systems.
• Familiarity with Python.
• Familiarity with common LLM frameworks and tools, or a background in machine learning or data science.
• Ability to collaborate across organizations, work through trade-offs, and balance competing priorities.
• Interest in teaching, mentoring, and helping others succeed.
• Passion for using technology safely and beneficially to advance safe AI systems.
• A security clearance is not required but is a plus.
• Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience. The field of study should be relevant to the role through coursework, training, or professional experience.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits.
• Optional equity donation matching.
• Generous vacation and parental leave.
• Flexible working hours.
• Office-based collaboration spaces.
• Anthropic sponsors visas and makes reasonable efforts to assist with visa processing, supported by an immigration lawyer.

Work Arrangement

Anthropic currently expects staff to work from one of its offices at least 25% of the time. Some roles may require more office time.