Applied AI Architect, International Policy

Location: San Francisco, CA; New York City, NY; Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Hybrid policy: staff are expected to be in one of the offices at least 25% of the time, with some roles requiring more.

Annual salary: $240,000–$315,000 USD.

Company

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems designed to be safe and beneficial for users and society.

What you will do

• Advise senior officials in partner governments, AI Safety Institutes, and international institutions on frontier AI capabilities, benefits, harms, and safety research.
• Develop demos, pilots, prototypes, and evaluation suites showing how Claude can support public-sector missions such as cyber defense.
• Lead technical onboarding, enablement, and hands-on workshops, including architecture, setup, and integration with Claude Code and the Claude API.
• Represent international partners and collaborate with Policy, Product, Research, and Engineering teams to shape needed capabilities.
• Travel internationally for partner meetings, technical enablement, and relationship building.
• Lead the vision, strategy, and execution of innovative solutions using the latest AI model capabilities.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience as a Customer Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, or Cybersecurity Engineer working with governments, international organizations, or the public sector.
• Experience in technology policy, AI safety, cybersecurity, or international affairs.
• Experience designing novel solutions for technical platforms in a developing mission area.
• Familiarity with evaluating and testing AI models for safety, plus an understanding of LLM fundamentals.
• Strong technical aptitude for partnering with engineers and strong proficiency in at least one programming language, with Python preferred.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, work across domains, and develop simple, understandable solutions.
• Strong collaboration, communication, and interpersonal skills for working with engineers, government officials, and diverse internal and external stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, and experience; the field of study must be relevant to the role through coursework, training, or professional experience.
• Experience requirements will correlate with the internal job level.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, research-focused environment working on large-scale efforts toward steerable and trustworthy AI.
• Competitive compensation, flexible working hours, generous vacation and parental leave, and office collaboration spaces.
• Optional equity donation matching.
• Visa sponsorship is available, although successful sponsorship depends on the role and candidate; immigration lawyer support is provided.
• Anthropic values communication, diverse perspectives, and safe, beneficial AI development.

Hiring process

• Review Anthropic’s candidate AI usage policy when preparing the application.
• Legitimate recruiter communications come from @anthropic.com addresses or identified vetted recruiting agencies; recruiters never request money, fees, or banking information before the first day.