Manager, Applied AI Engineering

About the role

As a Manager of Applied AI Engineers at Anthropic, you will lead a team of deeply technical engineers who serve as trusted technical advisors to our Enterprise Tech customers — tech-forward companies, including those in verticals such as fintech and cybersecurity, that are adopting the Claude API into the core of their products.

Responsibilities

• Build, coach, and grow a team of Applied AI Engineers serving Enterprise Tech customers — hiring strong technical builders, developing them through structured feedback and clear competency expectations, and creating scalable onboarding for a customer-facing technical role.
• Serve as a senior technical advisor to strategic customers as they deploy new products and workflows on Claude — guiding architecture design, evaluation strategy, and the most advanced prompting, agentic, and implementation patterns from discovery through deployment.
• Partner with account executives and solutions architects to translate customer business requirements into technical solutions, sequencing technical work to maximize value and orchestrating across teams to drive customer success.
• Identify the design patterns, pilots, prototypes, and evaluation suites that recur across engagements, and scale them from individual accounts into segment-wide assets your team can reuse.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to surface field signal, advocate for high-impact product changes, and help shape the roadmap based on what enterprise builders need.
• Champion the creation of scalable public and internal assets documenting the latest LLM prompting, evaluation, agentic, and architecture techniques; contribute thought leadership through talks, blog posts, and white papers.
• Maintain strong, current knowledge of LLM capabilities, implementation patterns, and the AI product development stack, and translate it into practical guidance for your team and customers.
• Travel occasionally to customer sites for workshops, implementation support, and relationship building, and represent Anthropic at conferences and speaking engagements.

Requirements

You have 7+ years of experience in technical roles such as Forward Deployed Engineer, Software Engineer, Solutions/Sales Engineer, or Technical Product Manager, including experience leading and developing technical teams. Former technical founders are also encouraged to apply.

You have production experience with LLMs, including advanced prompt engineering, agent development and frameworks, evaluation frameworks, transcript analysis, MCP, and deployment at scale — with the technical depth to set engineering standards and review your team's work credibly.

You have strong programming skills with proficiency in Python or TypeScript and experience building production applications.

You have a track record engaging senior technical stakeholders — founders, CTOs, and engineering leaders — and influencing technical architecture and product strategy.

You have the ability to navigate ambiguity and execute across domains with intellectual openness, finding simple solutions to complex problems.

You have a high-cooperation mindset for cross-organizational collaboration, balancing competing priorities with integrity.

You have exceptional communication skills to convey technical concepts to diverse stakeholders while maintaining a low ego and collaborative approach.

You have passion for advancing safe, beneficial AI systems through creative technical applications.

Strong candidates may also have Experience leading technical teams through periods of rapid scale, balancing immediate execution with durable, long-term architectural and platform decisions.

Experience selling or delivering complex technical solutions to large enterprise customers, including engaging C-level stakeholders in significant technical evaluations.

Experience partnering closely with Product and Engineering organizations to turn field signal into shipped product.

Experience coaching engineers from purely technical roles into customer-facing, advisory work.

Qualifications

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

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

Benefits

Annual compensation range for this role is listed below. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary $300,000—$405,000 USD

Pay

Annual Salary $300,000—$405,000 USD

Schedule

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Application Instructions

Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

How We're Different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles.

We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. 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.

To learn about our policy for using AI in our application process, please visit our guidance on candidates' AI usage.