Forward Deployed Engineer

Anthropic Anthropic · AI Frontier · Paris, France · Applied AI

The Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) role at Anthropic focuses on embedding with strategic customers to drive the adoption of advanced AI applications. This role involves building production applications using Claude models within customer systems, delivering technical artifacts like sub-agents and agent skills, and providing deployment support. The FDE will work closely with post-sales, product, and engineering teams, combining engineering expertise with customer-facing skills to solve complex business challenges and represent Anthropic's mission.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work within customer systems to build production applications with Claude models, ensuring that these products meet customer requirements.
  2. Deliver technical artifacts for customers like MCP servers, sub-agents, and agent skills that will be used in production workflows.
  3. Provide deployment assistance for Anthropic products into enterprise environments.
  4. Identify and codify repeatable deployment patterns and provide feedback to our Product and Engineering teams.
  5. Maintain deep knowledge of the latest developments in LLM capabilities, implementation patterns, and AI product development technology stacks.

Skills

Required

  • 4+ years of experience in a customer-facing technical role (e.g., Advanced Deployment Engineer, or Software Engineer with consulting experience)
  • Production experience with LLMs, including advanced prompt engineering, agent development, evaluation frameworks, and large-scale deployment.
  • Strong programming skills with proficiency in Python (and ideally one or more other languages like TypeScript, Java, etc.)
  • Experience shipping production applications.

Nice to have

  • Experience in financial services, healthcare/life sciences, or another industry vertical.
  • Experience with enterprise IT systems and/or AI deployment patterns.

What the JD emphasized

  • production applications
  • agent development
  • deployment
  • LLM
  • advanced prompt engineering
  • agent development
  • evaluation frameworks
  • large-scale deployment
  • Python
  • shipping production applications

Other signals

  • customer-facing
  • production applications
  • LLM
  • agent development
  • deployment