TL;DR

Applied AI Engineer (AI): Building and optimizing technical advisory for customers adopting Claude, with an accent on architecture design, evaluation frameworks, and cutting-edge LLM implementation patterns. Focus on guiding customers from technical discovery through successful deployment and addressing complex business challenges with AI while maintaining safety and reliability.

Location: Hybrid, based in Tokyo, Japan. Expected to be in the office at least 25% of the time. Visa sponsorship is available.

Company

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation dedicated to creating reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems for the benefit of society.

What you will do

  • Serve as a technical advisor to customers deploying new products and workflows with Anthropic models.
  • Partner with account executives to understand customer requirements and architect technical solutions.
  • Guide technical architecture decisions and help customers build state-of-the-art LLM products via API.
  • Develop customized pilots, prototypes, and evaluation suites for customer deployment.
  • Lead hands-on technical workshops and code reviews with customer engineering teams.
  • Identify common design patterns and contribute insights to Product and Engineering teams.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience in a technical role such as Customer Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Software Engineer, or Technical Product Manager with customer-facing desire.
  • Production experience with LLMs, including advanced prompt engineering, agent development, evaluation frameworks, and deployment at scale.
  • Strong programming skills with proficiency in Python and experience building production applications.
  • Expertise working with common LLM implementation patterns, prompt, agent, and retrieval frameworks.
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity and execute across domains with intellectual openness.
  • High cooperation mindset for cross-organizational collaboration and balancing priorities.

Culture & Benefits

  • Work as a single cohesive team on large-scale, high-impact AI research efforts.
  • Value advancing long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI through empirical science.
  • Competitive compensation and benefits, with optional equity donation matching.
  • Generous vacation and parental leave, along with flexible working hours.
  • Collaborative group with frequent research discussions.
  • Opportunity to contribute to advancing safe, beneficial AI systems through creative technical applications.