Applied AI Architect, Public Sector (State & Local Government)

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San Francisco, CA, USA
In-Office
275K-315K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Natural Language Processing • Generative AI
The Role
Serve as a pre-sales technical advisor for state and local government agencies adopting Claude. Partner with sales, product, and engineering teams to understand requirements, design scalable AI architectures, support evaluations and deployments, develop performance frameworks, and communicate technical concepts to executives and engineering teams. The role also contributes integration insights to product teams, supports Claude-based development, and requires frequent customer-site travel.
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About Anthropic

Anthropic’s 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 the role:

As an Applied AI team member at Anthropic, you will be a Pre-Sales architect focused on becoming a trusted technical advisor helping state and local government agencies understand the value of Claude and paint the vision on how they can successfully integrate and deploy Claude into their technology stack. You'll combine your deep technical expertise with customer-facing skills to architect innovative LLM solutions that address complex mission challenges while maintaining our high standards for safety and reliability.

Working closely with our Sales, Product, and Engineering teams, you'll guide customers from initial technical discovery through successful deployment. You'll leverage your expertise to help customers understand Claude's capabilities, develop evals, and design scalable architectures that maximize the value of our AI systems.

Responsibilities:
  • Partner with account executives to deeply understand customer requirements and translate them into technical solutions, ensuring alignment between business objectives and technical implementation

  • Serve as the primary technical advisor to enterprise customers throughout their Claude adoption journey, from discovery to initial evaluation through deployment. You will need to coordinate internally across multiple teams & stakeholders to drive customer success

  • Support customers building with Claude Code, the Claude API, and Claude for Enterprise 

  • Create and deliver compelling technical content tailored to different audiences. You will need to be able to spread the gamut from technical deep dives for engineering & development teams up to business value focused conversations with executives

  • Guide technical architecture decisions and help customers integrate Claude effectively into their existing technology stack

  • Help customers develop evaluation frameworks to measure Claude's performance for their specific use cases

  • Identify common integration patterns and contribute insights back to our Product and Engineering teams

  • Travel frequently to customer sites for workshops, technical deep dives, and relationship building

  • Maintain strong knowledge of the latest developments in LLM capabilities and implementation patterns

You may be a good fit if you have:
  • Must have prior experience working with US federal, state, and/or local agencies 

  • 5+ years of experience in technical customer-facing roles such as Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, or Technical Account Manager

  • Experience navigating complex buying cycles involving multiple stakeholders

  • Exceptional ability to build relationships with and communicate technical concepts to diverse stakeholders to include C-suite executives, engineering & IT teams, and more

  • Strong technical communication skills with the ability to translate customer requirements between technical and business stakeholders

  • Experience designing scalable cloud architectures and integrating with enterprise systems

  • Familiar with Python

  • Familiarity with common LLM frameworks and tools or a background in machine learning or data science

  • Excitement for engaging in cross-organizational collaboration, working through trade-offs, and balancing competing priorities

  • A love of teaching, mentoring, and helping others succeed

  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, able to convey complicated topics in easily understandable terms to a diverse set of external and internal stakeholders. You enjoy engaging in cross-organizational collaboration, working through trade-offs, and balancing competing priorities

  • Passion for thinking creatively about how to use technology in a way that is safe and beneficial, and ultimately furthers the goal of advancing safe AI systems

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. 

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary:
$275,000—$315,000 USD
Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

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 aren't 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 you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're 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.
Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.

How we're 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. We're 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 about our policy for using AI in our application process.

Skills Required

  • Prior experience working with US federal, state, and/or local government agencies
  • 5+ years of experience in technical customer-facing roles such as Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, or Technical Account Manager
  • Experience navigating complex buying cycles involving multiple stakeholders
  • Exceptional relationship-building and communication skills with executives, engineering teams, and IT teams
  • Strong technical communication skills translating requirements between technical and business stakeholders
  • Experience designing scalable cloud architectures and integrating enterprise systems
  • Familiarity with Python
  • Familiarity with common LLM frameworks and tools, or a background in machine learning or data science
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
  • Relevant field of study demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
  • Teaching, mentoring, and cross-organizational collaboration skills
  • Passion for safe and beneficial AI systems

Anthropic Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Anthropic and has not been reviewed or approved by Anthropic.

  • Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity grants are described as substantial with strong upside potential, alongside an option to match equity donations at a 1:1 ratio up to part of the grant. Feedback suggests this equity component is a major draw for top technical and research talent.
  • Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents is complemented by mental health resources. Feedback suggests the health package is comprehensive and competitive.
  • Parental & Family Support — Policies feature generous paid parental leave and inclusive fertility and family-building benefits. Feedback suggests these family supports are a standout part of the package.

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, California
2,500 Employees

What We Do

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that’s working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our research interests span multiple areas including natural language, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability.

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