At a Glance
- Tasks: Join our team to develop impactful AI solutions for mission-driven organisations.
- Company: Anthropic, a leader in creating safe and beneficial AI systems.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, hybrid work model, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Collaborative culture with a focus on social impact and community benefit.
- Why this job: Make a real difference by deploying AI in education, health, and more.
- Qualifications: 4+ years in software engineering with experience in LLM-powered applications.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
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 Beneficial Deployments
Beneficial Deployments ensures AI reaches and benefits the communities that need it most. We partner with nonprofits, foundations, and mission-driven organizations to deploy Claude in education, global health, economic mobility, and life sciences, focusing on raising the floor.
About The Role
We're looking for an Applied AI Engineer to join our Beneficial Deployments team. You’ll use your deep technical expertise to help partners accelerate their impact through advising on evals, hill‑climbing on harnesses, prototyping new agents, etc. You will also work on building ecosystem‑level tooling and infrastructure to scale impact beyond individual partnerships.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a deep technical partner to mission‑driven organizations through advising on evals, agent architectures, context engineering, cost optimization, and more.
- Provide hands‑on support to partner engineering teams through pair programming, prototyping, and code contributions that accelerate their development.
- Develop public goods infrastructure that benefits entire ecosystems through benchmarks, MCPs, and Agent Skills.
- Identify challenges unique to social impact partners, and contribute findings and improvements back to product, engineering, and research.
- Create technical presentations, demos, and scalable technical content (documentation, tutorials, sample code) to accelerate partner adoption and self‑service.
- Help shape team processes and culture as we scale from 1 to N.
- Travel occasionally to customer sites for workshops, technical deep dives, and relationship building.
Qualifications
- 4+ years as a Software Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, or technical founder.
- Production experience building LLM‑powered applications, including prompting, context engineering, agent architectures, evaluation frameworks, and deployment at scale.
- Builder credibility that earns trust with technical founders and engineering teams—you’ve shipped products and can speak from experience.
- Experience working in ed‑tech, healthcare, scientific research, nonprofit, or other mission‑driven organizations, understanding their unique challenges and constraints.
- A love of teaching, mentoring, and helping others succeed.
- A scrappy mentality—comfortable wearing multiple hats, building from scratch, driving clarity in ambiguous situations, and doing whatever it takes to further the mission.
Compensation
£240,000—£255,000 GBP (annual salary)
Location & 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. 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.
Applied AI Engineer, Beneficial Deployments employer: Anthropic
Anthropic is an exceptional employer for those passionate about advancing reinforcement learning in a collaborative and innovative environment. With competitive compensation, generous vacation and parental leave, and flexible working hours, employees enjoy a supportive work culture that prioritises both personal and professional growth. Located in a vibrant office space, team members have the unique opportunity to engage directly with cutting-edge research while making meaningful contributions to the responsible scaling of AI.
