Anthropic

Forward Deployed Engineer, Federal Civilian

We captured this posting once, on 2026-05-22, and did not track it afterwards — so we cannot tell you whether it is still open.

Employer
Anthropic
Location
New York, NY
Seniority
Mid level
Experience asked for
4+ years
Pay band
$280K – $320K

When we saw it

  • Posted 2026-05-09 — the date the employer published it
  • Archived 2026-05-22 — when we saved this copy

Found via LinkedIn — US keyword pulls.

Skills the posting named

production llm experienceadvanced prompt engineeringagent developmentevaluation frameworksdeployment at scaleengineering expertiseAI knowledgefacing skillsambiguity managementorganizational collaborationcommunication skillscustomer discovery

From the posting

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 The Role As a member of the Applied AI team at Anthropic, you will be a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) who embeds directly with our most strategic federal civilian (and, occasionally, state and local) customers to drive transformational AI adoption. You will collaborate closely with customer teams to ship advanced AI applications that solve real world business problems. Our FDEs engage with customers to accelerate the adoption of existing products and create new applications built on our models. …

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