Anthropic
Applied AI Architect, Startups
$240K–$315K
San Francisco, CA +3 · Full-time · Posted Aug 28, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
New York City, NY
New York, New York, United States
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 3+ years in technical customer-facing roles; the posting also states that required years correlate with internal job level requirements.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience; relevant field of study demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship is available, but not for every role or candidate; Anthropic says it will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa after an offer.
About the job
Partners with startups to architect, evaluate, deploy, and scale products built on the Claude Developer Platform, serving as a technical advisor from discovery through expansion.
What you'll do
- Translate startup requirements into technical solutions and guide Claude adoption from evaluation through deployment and expansion.
- Help startups build evaluation frameworks and demonstrate Claude’s performance for their use cases.
- Advise on technical architecture, share startup use-case insights with Product and Engineering, and travel for customer workshops and events.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of experience in technical customer-facing roles such as Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, or technical founder with founder-led sales.
- Hands-on experience building and deploying LLM-powered applications in production, including context engineering, evaluation frameworks, and modern AI architectures.
- Builder credibility through experience as a software engineer or technical founder; strong technical communication skills.
- Comfort with Python and a track record of selling technical products in competitive markets.
Nice to have
- Experience working with startups or high-growth technology companies.
- Familiarity with common LLM frameworks, tools, and integration patterns.
Pay
$240,000 — $315,000 USD OTE (includes annual base salary and target sales commissions/bonuses)
Tools
Claude Developer Platform, Claude, Python
AI focus
Help startups build and deploy production LLM applications on Claude, design AI architectures, and evaluate model performance for specific use cases.
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