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Anthropic

Builds Claude AI models with a focus on safety

Applied AI Engineer - Public Sector

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/23/2026
$280k - $320k/yr
Mid
Bachelor's
Washington, DC, USA
HybridHybrid policy expects staff in an office at least 25% of the time; this role primarily works on-site at customer secure facilities.
Solution EngineeringImplementation & Technical Account Management
No H1B Sponsorship
US Top Secret Clearance Required

About the job

Requirements
  • Active Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information clearance with polygraph.
  • Prior experience working within U.S. intelligence community agencies as a government civilian or cleared contractor.
  • At least four years of experience in technical roles such as Forward Deployed Engineer, Product Engineer, Software Engineer, or Technical Product Manager, with an interest in working closely with customers.
  • Strong programming skills in Python or TypeScript and experience building production applications.
  • Hands-on expertise in at least one domain: offensive or defensive cyber operations, including vulnerability research, reverse engineering, and industrial control systems/operational technology security; cryptography and cryptanalysis; intelligence analysis and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, including all-source, signals intelligence, and geospatial intelligence; mission and weapons systems, including command and control, space, electronic warfare, and autonomy; chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear matters and nonproliferation; or accreditation of classified systems, including Risk Management Framework, Authority to Operate, and cross-domain solutions.
  • Ability to communicate technical concepts to stakeholders ranging from engineers to executives and collaborate effectively.
  • Production experience with large language models, including advanced prompt engineering, agent development and frameworks, evaluation frameworks, transcript analysis, Model Context Protocol, and deployment at scale.
  • Experience deploying and operating software in air-gapped or classified environments.
  • Experience designing scalable cloud architectures and integrating with enterprise systems.
  • Background in artificial intelligence, machine learning, or data science.
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity and execute across domains, finding simple solutions to complex problems.
  • Ability to collaborate across organizations while balancing competing priorities with integrity.
  • Interest in advancing safe, beneficial AI systems through technical applications.
Responsibilities
  • Serve as a specialist technical advisor for one or more national security mission programs from discovery and evaluation through deployment and adoption, coordinating internally across teams to drive customer success.
  • Support the customer as they build with Claude Code, the Claude API, and Claude for Enterprise.
  • Partner with account executives and Applied AI Architects to translate mission requirements into technical solutions.
  • Influence technical architecture decisions and integration into the customer's existing technology stack by developing customized pilots, prototypes, and evaluation suites.
  • Develop evaluation frameworks to measure Claude's performance for mission-specific use cases.
  • Lead hands-on technical workshops and code reviews with customer engineering teams.
  • Identify common design patterns and share insights with Product and Engineering teams.
  • Create and deliver technical content, including engineering deep dives and executive briefings.
  • Maintain knowledge of developments in large language model capabilities, implementation patterns, and AI product development stacks.
  • Work primarily on-site with the customer's engineering and mission teams in secure government facilities while coordinating and sharing feedback with Anthropic's Applied AI and Engineering teams.
Desired Qualifications
  • Production experience with large language models, including advanced prompt engineering, agent development and frameworks, evaluation frameworks, transcript analysis, Model Context Protocol, and deployment at scale.
  • Experience deploying and operating software in air-gapped or classified environments.
  • Experience designing scalable cloud architectures and integrating with enterprise systems.
  • Background in artificial intelligence, machine learning, or data science.
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity and execute across domains, finding simple solutions to complex problems.
  • Ability to collaborate across organizations while balancing competing priorities with integrity.
  • Interest in advancing safe, beneficial AI systems through technical applications.

About the company

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Anthropic

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Anthropic builds the Claude family of AI models and sells them to businesses, software developers, and consumers, with research on making AI safe and understandable at the center of its work. In 2024 it introduced the Model Context Protocol, an open standard for connecting AI assistants to outside apps and data that OpenAI and Google adopted the next year. People use the Claude app to write and analyze files, programmers hand coding tasks to Claude Code, and companies build Claude into their own products through its API. Anthropic earns money from subscriptions, business plans, and usage-based API fees. Siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei founded Anthropic in 2021 with other former OpenAI employees, and it is based in San Francisco.

Company Size

5,001-10,000

Company Stage

Debt Financing

Total Funding

$242.8B

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2021

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What believers are saying

  • Sales are multiplying: Anthropic's yearly revenue pace topped $65 billion in July 2026, over sevenfold since December 2025.
  • IPO plans advanced: October 2026 reports describe investor meetings and a mid-November listing target; staff shares face lockups.
  • Lower office minimum: 627 of 646 Anthropic job posts in October 2026 require at least 25% office time.

What critics are saying

  • Job security rides on growth: Anthropic's IPO prospectus lists $518 billion in cloud and computing bills due in coming years.
  • Defense work stays off-limits: in September 2026, appeals judges voted 2-1 to let the Pentagon keep blacklisting Anthropic.
  • Growth is priced in: Anthropic's valuation reached $965 billion in May 2026, up from $380 billion in February.

What makes Anthropic unique

  • Investors don't control its board alone: Anthropic's independent Long-Term Benefit Trust elects a growing number of directors.
  • It isn't tied to one chipmaker: Claude runs on Nvidia GPUs plus custom AI chips designed by Google and Amazon.
  • It holds back its riskiest model: Claude Mythos 5.1, launched September 2026, goes only to vetted cyberdefenders and life scientists.

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Benefits

  • Flexible Work Hours
  • Paid Vacation
  • Parental Leave
  • Hybrid Work Options
  • Company Equity

Growth & Insights and Company News

6 month growth

-3%

1 year growth

2%

2 year growth

-3%
Bloomberg
Oct 23rd, 2026
UK commits $127M to AI biosecurity lab backed by OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind

The UK has announced £100 million ($134 million) for an AI Biosecurity Lab, which OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind will support. The funding is part of a package of measures to help the government understand and tackle the risks posed by the technology.

DealStreetAsia
Oct 22nd, 2026
Blackstone eyes AI financing boom, with 7% of its $1.4T assets already exposed

Blackstone sees growing opportunities to finance artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, from chips and computing equipment to power generation and data centres. "The needs of capital here are so enormous. It's unprecedented in our lifetimes," President Jon Gray said on the firm's third-quarter earnings call. The firm is reportedly committing $9 billion to a junior-debt tranche in an $18 billion financing package for Anthropic's AI chips and computing infrastructure, part of a broader $60 billion arrangement. In June, its Credit & Insurance business joined a $35 billion financing launched by Apollo and Broadcom for Anthropic. Blackstone is also weighing dedicated investment vehicles alongside broader funds. About 7% of its $1.4 trillion in assets under management is exposed to AI infrastructure. Gray said the firm focuses on physical infrastructure and long-term contracted assets to manage risks such as technological obsolescence.

PR Newswire
Oct 22nd, 2026
Cube joins Claude's connector directory, bringing live, permissioned FP&A data to finance teams

Cube, an agentic financial planning and analysis (FP&A) platform, has partnered with Anthropic to make its financial model available inside Claude. Finance teams can now add Cube through Claude's connector directory. The connector gives Claude the chart of accounts, business logic, and enterprise permissions behind a company's numbers. Each user sees only the data they are authorised to access, and figures can be traced to the source transaction. Users sign in through a secure OAuth flow, with no API keys to manage. They can then ask questions in plain English, such as comparing actuals with forecast, or set up new scenarios. "Data tells AI what the numbers are. Financial context tells AI what the numbers mean," said Christina Ross, founder and chief executive officer of Cube. The Cube MCP Server is available now.

Associated Press
Oct 22nd, 2026
Qlik's MCP server joins Anthropic's Claude Directory, bringing governed data to Claude

Qlik has made its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server available through Anthropic's Claude Directory. Claude users can now connect governed Qlik data, analytical logic, and selected analytics workflows more easily. The server gives Claude access to data lineage, trust signals, and business metrics from Qlik Cloud. Users can search apps and datasets, ask questions in natural language, and create dashboards with prompts. Teams no longer need to rebuild business logic elsewhere. Access runs on OAuth-based authentication and existing Qlik Cloud permissions, so enterprise controls stay in place. "Customers adopting Claude want more than an LLM hooked to raw records," said Josh Good, vice president of corporate strategy at Qlik. The company announced the news on October 22, 2026.

CNBC
Oct 21st, 2026
Anthropic previews Claude Duet, a proactive AI agent rivalling Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots

Anthropic on Wednesday announced a preview of Claude Duet, an AI agent for small businesses and professionals. It can send daily briefs, keep tabs on connected apps, and carry out tasks such as building dashboards, scheduling meetings, and creating financial forecasts. The launch follows Meta's Muse, which topped Apple's App Store after its launch last month, and OpenAI's Dots. Meta chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg said more than 10 million people in the US and Canada have set up Muse agents. Anthropic said Duet is still early and "might misread a thread or miscalibrate what's urgent." Personal errands, such as booking tickets, are not "quite as strong." A waitlist is open. Pro and Max subscribers can use the preview through a standalone app or the Claude website.