Forward Deployed Software Engineer - Claude

Forward-Deployed Engineers operate at the intersection of customer problems, product and engineering. You will work directly with enterprise customers to identify high-value opportunities for Claude, rapidly prove what is possible and turn successful prototypes into robust production solutions.

This is not a traditional consulting or delivery role. You will be a hands-on engineer embedded close to the customer, responsible for how complex problems are technically solved.

What You’ll Do

• Work directly with customers to understand complex business and technical problems
• Lead technical discovery and identify where Claude can deliver meaningful value
• Rapidly prototype and validate solutions using Claude
• Design and build agentic AI applications and workflows
• Use Claude Code and AI-native software development practices to accelerate engineering
• Design solution architectures integrating Claude with enterprise applications, APIs and data
• Build and productionise LLM applications using techniques including tool use, MCP, RAG and structured outputs
• Design robust evaluation and testing frameworks for AI systems
• Take solutions from proof-of-concept through to secure, scalable production deployments
• Diagnose and solve complex technical problems during customer engagements
• Work alongside customer engineering teams, Anthropic and internal engagement leads
• Capture successful approaches as repeatable engineering patterns and accelerators
• Feed technical insights and customer requirements back into the wider engineering organisation and Anthropic ecosystem

• Excellent hands-on software engineering capability
• Strong Python and/or TypeScript engineering skills
• Experience building production applications using Claude or other frontier LLMs
• Strong understanding of agentic architectures, tool calling, context engineering and LLM application design
• Experience rapidly taking ambiguous business problems from discovery * prototype * production
• Strong API, integration and enterprise architecture experience
• Experience deploying applications into AWS, Azure or GCP
• Understanding of AI evaluation, testing, observability, security and production reliability
• Ability to work directly with customers and communicate complex technical concepts clearly
• Comfortable working in highly ambiguous, fast-moving environments

Particularly Valuable

• Deep Anthropic Claude experience
• Claude Code experience
• Model Context Protocol (MCP) experience
• Building and deploying sophisticated AI agents
• Claude through Amazon Bedrock or Google Vertex AI
• AI-native software development / SDLC experience
• Enterprise integration experience
• Previous experience as a Forward-Deployed Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Founding Engineer or customer-facing Software Engineer