Applied AI Architect, Public Sector

• Serve as a pre-sales architect and trusted technical adviser to the UK and Northern Europe public sector, with a primary focus on UK Central Government departments, executive agencies, and arm's length bodies. • Support defence and national security engagements, including with the MOD and intelligence agencies, on some of the UK's most sensitive and mission-critical challenges. • Help public sector organisations understand the value of Claude and architect solutions to modernise operations, improve policy delivery, and transform citizen services. • Be based in London with a hybrid policy expecting at least 25% of time in the office, with frequent travel to customer sites across the UK.

• Have prior experience working with UK public sector organisations, particularly UK Central Government departments, executive agencies, or arm's length bodies. • Hold active UK Security Check (SC) clearance, with willingness and eligibility to be put forward for higher levels of clearance (e.g. DV) where customer engagements require it. • Bring 5+ years of experience in technical customer-facing roles such as Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, or Technical Account Manager. • Have experience navigating complex public sector buying cycles involving multiple stakeholders — commercial teams, digital and technology leadership, policy owners, and SROs. • Build relationships with and communicate technical concepts to diverse stakeholders including senior civil servants, C-suite executives, engineering, and IT teams. • Demonstrate strong technical communication skills translating customer requirements between technical and business stakeholders. • Have experience designing scalable cloud architectures and integrating with enterprise systems. • Be comfortable with Python. • Be familiar with common LLM frameworks and tools, or have a background in machine learning or data science. • Love teaching, mentoring, and helping others succeed.

• Bring familiarity with UK public procurement routes and frameworks such as G-Cloud, the AI Dynamic Purchasing System (AI DPS), Digital Outcomes, and Crown Commercial Service agreements. • Have experience working with systems integrators and delivery partners within public sector frameworks. • Have familiarity with NCSC guidelines, Cyber Essentials Plus, the Government Security Classifications framework, the Technology Code of Practice, and the Service Standard. • Have hands-on experience building with the Claude API or similar LLM APIs. • Bring experience developing evaluation frameworks for AI/ML systems in public sector contexts.

• Partner with account executives to deeply understand customer requirements and translate them into technical solutions, ensuring alignment between departmental outcomes, policy objectives, and technical implementation. • Serve as the primary technical adviser to public sector customers throughout their Claude adoption journey, from discovery through deployment. • Support customers building with Claude Code, the Claude API, and Claude for Enterprise. • Create and deliver compelling technical content from technical deep dives for engineering teams to business-value conversations with senior civil servants and C-suite executives. • Support defence and national security engagements, designing solutions that work within security, classification, and accreditation constraints. • Guide technical architecture decisions with alignment to NCSC guidelines, Cyber Essentials Plus, the Government Security Classifications framework, the Technology Code of Practice, and the Service Standard. • Help customers develop evaluation frameworks to measure Claude's performance for their specific use cases. • Identify common integration patterns across the UK public sector and contribute insights back to Product and Engineering teams. • Travel frequently to customer sites across the UK and occasionally Northern Europe for workshops, technical deep dives, and relationship building.

• Receive competitive compensation between £165,000 and £190,000 GBP annually. • Get visa sponsorship where possible — Anthropic retains an immigration lawyer to support this. • Take generous parental leave. • Enjoy generous vacation and flexible working hours. • Optional equity donation matching. • Work on some of the UK's most sensitive and mission-critical AI challenges across government and defence.

Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. They want AI to be safe and beneficial for users and society as a whole. The team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. Anthropic is a public benefit corporation offering competitive compensation and benefits.