Head of Forward Deployed Engineering

Head of Forward Deployed Engineering at Anthropic

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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

Anthropic is seeking an exceptional leader to build and scale our Forward Deployment Engineering (FDE) organization. Reporting to the Global Head of Applied AI, you'll lead a team of elite engineers who embed directly with our most strategic customers to drive transformational AI adoption—from rapid prototyping to production deployment of custom agents and enterprise‑scale AI systems.

You’ll architect and operationalize our FDE service portfolio across traditional enterprises and digital native businesses, ensuring customers realize measurable value while building internal AI capabilities. This role requires equal parts technical depth, commercial acumen, and organizational leadership as you scale a high‑leverage team that sits at the intersection of product, engineering, and customer success.

Responsibilities

Build and Scale the FDE Organization

• Lead, hire, and develop a world‑class team of Forward Deployment Engineers, Engagement Managers, and Platform Specialists
• Establish hiring standards, onboarding programs, and career frameworks for technical roles (you’ve likely interviewed 500+ people and hired 50+ in previous roles)
• Build repeatable delivery methodologies for MCP server development, Claude Code SDLC integration, custom agent development, and API product acceleration and continue designing new packages as our products and models evolve

Drive Customer Transformation at Scale

Shape Product and GTM Strategy

Establish Commercial and Operational Rigor

Qualifications

Leadership & Team Building

Commercial & Strategic Acumen

Why This Role Matters

You’ll be building the team that proves Claude can drive transformational business outcomes in the world's most complex enterprises. Every engagement creates referenceable customer success stories, informs product development, and establishes patterns that scale across our customer base. This is a rare opportunity to shape how AI adoption happens at Fortune 500 scale.

Logistics & Compensation

We Encourage You to Apply Even If You Do Not Believe You Meet Every Qualification

Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

How We’re Different

We believe that the highest‑impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large‑scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long‑term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We’re an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest‑impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

Come Work with Us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.

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