CareerPlan

Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CAFull-time$280k2026-10-14 → 2026-11-10
HybridVisa sponsorship offered

Core

Staff Forward Deployed Engineer embedding with strategic customers to lead technical direction, architecture, and advisory work for advanced AI applications.

Role type

Staff Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)

Builds

Advanced AI applications and agent components using Claude for enterprise customers

Domain

Enterprise AI / Generative AI

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Deep system design, production system operations, LLMs and agents, Python, architecture review, stakeholder influence, ambiguity navigation

Preferred skills

Financial services or healthcare/life sciences background, TypeScript/Java, former technical founder

Technologies

Python, TypeScript, Java, Claude

Responsibilities

Own technical strategy for key accounts, guide architecture across workstreams, lead discovery engagements, represent Anthropic to C-level stakeholders, build production applications and agent components, codify deployment patterns, travel 25% to customer sites

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic leadership