Forward Deployed Engineer - Enterprise AI

About the role

Anthropic's Applied AI team is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) based in London. The FDE embeds directly with the company's most strategic customers to drive AI adoption, collaborating with customer teams to ship advanced AI applications that solve real-world business problems. The role works closely with Post-Sales, Product and Engineering teams, and the FDE is expected to operate autonomously and represent Anthropic at the highest level in customer environments.

Key responsibilities

• Build production applications with Claude models inside customer systems, meeting customer requirements.
• Deliver technical artifacts such as MCP servers, sub-agents and agent skills for production workflows.
• Provide white-glove deployment support for Anthropic products in enterprise environments.
• Identify and codify repeatable deployment patterns and share insights with Product and Engineering teams.
• Stay up to date with LLM capabilities, implementation patterns and AI product stacks.
• Build long-term customer relationships and spot new AI deployment opportunities throughout an engagement.
• Travel frequently (25-50%) to customer sites; work in person with customers.

Required profile

• 4+ years in a technical, customer-facing role such as a Forward Deployed Engineer, or as a software engineer with consulting or product experience; former technical founders are encouraged to apply.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
• Experience with enterprise IT systems and/or AI deployment patterns is a plus; a background in financial services, healthcare/life sciences or another enterprise vertical is a plus.

Required skills

• Production experience with LLMs, including advanced prompt engineering, agent development, evaluation frameworks and deployment at scale.
• Strong programming skills, with Python and ideally one or more additional languages such as TypeScript or Java.
• Ability to work across complex organisations, collaborate across teams and communicate technical concepts clearly to diverse stakeholders.

What we offer

• Annual salary of £225,000 to £255,000 GBP.
• Hybrid policy: staff are expected to be in an office at least 25% of the time.
• Visa sponsorship considered, with an immigration lawyer retained to help.
• Optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours.