Applied AI Engineer, Beneficial Deployments

About Anthropic

Anthropics mission is to create reliable interpretable and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers engineers policy experts and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About Beneficial Deployments

Beneficial Deployments ensures AI reaches and benefits the communities that need it most. We partner with nonprofits foundations and mission-driven organizations to deploy Claude in education global health economic mobility and life sciences focusing on raising the floor.

About the Role

Were looking for an Applied AI Engineer to join our Beneficial Deployments team. Youll use your deep technical expertise to help partners accelerate their impact through advising on evals hill-climbing on harnesses prototyping new agents etc. You will also work on building ecosystem-level tooling and infrastructure to scale impact beyond individual partnerships.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a deep technical partner to mission-driven organizations through advising on evals agent architectures context engineering cost optimization and more
• Provide hands-on support to partner engineering teams through pair programming prototyping and code contributions that accelerate their development
• Develop public goods infrastructure that benefits entire ecosystems through benchmarks MCPs and Agent Skills
• Identify challenges unique to social impact partners and contribute findings and improvements back to product engineering and research
• Create technical presentations demos and scalable technical content (documentation tutorials sample code) to accelerate partner adoption and self-service
• Help shape team processes and culture as we scale from 1 to N
• Travel occasionally to customer sites for workshops technical deep dives and relationship building

You Might Be a Good Fit If You Have

• 4 years as a Software Engineer Forward Deployed Engineer or technical founder
• Production experience building LLM-powered applications including prompting context engineering agent architectures evaluation frameworks and deployment at scale
• Builder credibility that earns trust with technical founders and engineering teamsyouve shipped products and can speak from experience
• Experience working in ed-tech healthcare scientific research nonprofit or other mission-driven organizations understanding their unique challenges and constraints
• A love of teaching mentoring and helping others succeed
• A scrappy mentalitycomfortable wearing multiple hats building from scratch driving clarity in ambiguous situations and doing whatever it takes to further the mission

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

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.

Visa sponsorship:We do sponsor visas! However we arent 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.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if youre interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones were building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

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How were 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. Were an extremely collaborative group and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic including: GPT-3 Circuit-Based Interpretability Multimodal Neurons Scaling Laws AI & Compute Concrete Problems in AI Safety and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits optional equity donation matching generous vacation and parental leave flexible working hours and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates AI Usage:Learn aboutour policyfor using AI in our application process