Applied AI Architect, Public Sector (Federal Civilan)
Customer-facing LLM/AI architecture work using Claude; hands-on with Claude APIs and building LLM solutions for government customers.
About the Role
Pre-Sales Applied AI Architect advising U.S. federal civilian agencies on integrating Anthropic’s Claude into their technology stacks. Serve as a technical advisor from discovery through deployment—designing scalable cloud and LLM architectures, building evals, and coordinating across Sales, Product, and Engineering to ensure safe, reliable deployments.
Job Description
Role
You will be a Pre-Sales Applied AI Architect focused on U.S. federal civilian agencies, acting as a trusted technical advisor to help customers understand Claude’s capabilities and to design, evaluate, and deploy LLM-based solutions. Partner with Sales, Product, and Engineering to translate mission requirements into scalable, safe architectures and measurable evaluation frameworks.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with account executives to gather and translate customer requirements into technical solutions aligned with business objectives.
- Serve as primary technical advisor throughout the Claude adoption lifecycle: discovery, evaluation, and deployment.
- Support customers building with Claude Code, the Claude API, and Claude for Enterprise.
- Create and deliver technical content for audiences ranging from engineers to C-suite executives.
- Guide technical architecture decisions and integrate Claude into existing enterprise and cloud systems.
- Help customers develop evaluation frameworks to measure Claude’s performance for specific use cases.
- Identify common integration patterns and feed insights back to Product and Engineering teams.
- Travel frequently to customer sites for workshops, technical deep dives, and relationship building.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of LLM capabilities and implementation patterns.
Requirements
- Prior experience working with U.S. federal, state, or local government agencies (required).
- 5+ years in technical customer-facing roles (e.g., Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, Technical Account Manager).
- Experience navigating complex buying cycles involving multiple stakeholders.
- Strong relationship-building and technical communication skills; able to convey technical concepts to executives, engineering, and IT teams.
- Experience designing scalable cloud architectures and integrating with enterprise systems.
- Familiarity with Python.
- Familiarity with common LLM frameworks and tools or a background in machine learning or data science.
- Willingness to travel frequently and to run customer workshops and technical deep dives.
- Passion for building safe and beneficial AI systems; mentoring and cross-organizational collaboration skills.
Compensation & Logistics
- Annual salary range: $275,000 — $315,000 USD.
- Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience/training.
- Location policy: Company expects staff to be in one of its offices at least 25% of the time (location-based hybrid expectation).
- Visa sponsorship: Anthropic may sponsor visas and provides immigration support in some cases.