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Anthropic is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with select Fortune 500 customers, build internal tooling on Claude, and help them ship AI features in production. You'll travel monthly, write code in TypeScript and Python, and translate fuzzy business asks into shippable demos.
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Dear Anthropic team,
A Fortune 500 wealth desk I worked with had a $40M annual portfolio rebalance run by spreadsheet. The bottleneck was ten analysts updating tabs at 2am every quarter; one bad cell and the run silently drifted. I prototyped a Claude-driven runbook in three weeks: the model parses the analysts' Slack threads, drafts the next rebalance, and writes a one-page diff a partner approves before it ships. Run time dropped from 36 hours to 90 minutes. That's the kind of thing your Forward Deployed Engineer JD describes — I want to do it for the next ten companies on your list.
I've spent the last three years bouncing between very different rooms: a London hedge fund where I rewrote the trade-reconciliation pipeline, a Berlin healthtech building Claude-powered triage for ED nurses, and a six-month stint at a YC company where I shipped the entire onboarding flow alone in TypeScript. Across all of it the same thing made the work move: showing up in the customer's stack, finding the one workflow they hate, and giving them a working version Friday afternoon. Demos > decks.
Three reasons Anthropic specifically: I've been writing production code on top of Claude since the 2.0 days and the prompt-caching API is the first inference primitive that actually changes how I architect agents. I've reviewed every system card you've published and the one for Sonnet 4.6 changed how I think about the speed/quality trade in agentic loops. And the customers in your FDE pipeline are the exact mid-large enterprises where I've already learned what their security review looks like, what their procurement cycle is, and how their CTOs actually decide.
I'd be useful in week one and a force multiplier by month three. Happy to send code samples, walk through the rebalancer, or jump on a call.
Best,
Daníel Vestfjörð Óskarsson