Anthropic
Applied AI Engineer, Public Sector
$280K–$320K
Washington, DC +1 · Full-time · Posted Oct 6, 2026
- Location
- Washington, DC
Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Experience
- 4+ years in a technical role; the posting also says required years correlate with internal job level requirements.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience; relevant field demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship is available, but not for every role or candidate; the company says it will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa after an offer.
About the job
Advises a national security customer on designing, evaluating, building, and deploying mission-specific capabilities powered by Claude, primarily in secure government facilities.
What you'll do
- Guide customer programs from technical discovery and evaluation through deployment and adoption, coordinating with internal teams.
- Develop customized pilots, prototypes, architecture guidance, and evaluation frameworks for mission-specific applications.
- Lead technical workshops and code reviews, and share customer insights with Product and Engineering teams.
What they ask for
- Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.
- Prior experience in a US intelligence community agency as a government civilian or cleared contractor.
- 4+ years in a technical role such as Forward Deployed Engineer, Product Engineer, Software Engineer, or Technical Product Manager.
- Proficiency in Python or TypeScript, production application experience, and hands-on expertise in at least one listed mission domain.
Nice to have
- Production LLM experience, including prompt engineering, agent development, evaluation, transcript analysis, MCP, or deployment at scale.
- Experience with classified or air-gapped deployments, scalable cloud architectures, enterprise integration, or AI/ML/data science.
Pay
$280,000 — $320,000 USD (annual salary; base salary)
Tools
Claude Code, Claude API, Claude for Enterprise, Python, TypeScript, MCP
AI focus
Applies Claude and LLMs to national security mission use cases, including implementation, evaluation, and deployment, while maintaining safety and reliability.
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