Applied AI Engineer, Startups

at Anthropic

📍 London, United Kingdom

GBP 225,000-255,000 per year

MIDDLE

✅ Hybrid

✅ Visa Sponsorship

Tech Stack
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Details

As an Applied AI Engineer at Anthropic, you will be a trusted technical advisor helping tech-forward companies build on the Claude Developer Platform as they grow and scale. You will lead deep technical engagements, partner directly with engineering teams, advise on implementation and agent design, and work alongside customers to build at the frontier of AI.

Responsibilities

Serve as a deep technical advisor to high-growth, tech-forward companies, working alongside them to build innovative AI use cases.
Work hands-on with customer engineering teams through pair programming, architecture reviews, and code contributions.
Develop prototypes and technical documentation, including evaluation suites, AI engineering techniques, and architecture diagrams.
Collaborate with Applied AI Architects to maintain context and continuity across customer engagements.
Identify patterns across engagements and contribute insights to Product, Engineering, and the broader Applied AI team.
Create technical content for developer audiences, including documentation, tutorials, and sample code.
Foster community engagement through hackathons, webinars, technical office hours, and developer-focused events.
Travel to customer sites for workshops, implementation support, and relationship building.

Requirements

4+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, or technical founder.
Experience in a customer-facing or pre-sales technical role, partnering with customers to scope, design, and deliver solutions.
Production experience building LLM-powered applications, including prompting, context engineering, agent architectures, evaluation frameworks, and deployment at scale.
Strong programming skills, with proficiency in Python and experience building production applications.
Experience working with high-growth, tech-forward companies.
Ability to context-switch across industries and use cases, including healthcare and fintech.
Builder credibility with technical founders and engineering leaders, including experience shipping products.
Strong technical communication skills and the ability to translate complex AI concepts into architectural decisions and actionable implementation plans.
Experience facilitating technical workshops, hackathons, or developer-focused events.
Passion for making powerful technology safe and beneficial.
Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
Relevant field of study demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.

Compensation

The annual salary range is £225,000–£255,000 GBP.

Logistics and Benefits

Hybrid policy: Staff are expected to work from one of Anthropic’s offices at least 25% of the time; some roles may require more office time.
Anthropic sponsors visas and makes reasonable efforts to support visa applications, with assistance from an immigration lawyer.
Benefits include competitive compensation, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and office collaboration spaces.