Applied AI Architect, Public Sector

Washington, DC · Washington, D.C. · USD 240,000-315,000 / year · 5+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Sep 23, 2026

At a glance

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.

As an Applied AI Solutions Architect supporting a dedicated national security mission program, you will act as the customer's trusted technical advisor to help integrate and deploy Claude into their technology stack.
You will combine deep technical and cyber domain expertise with customer-facing skills to architect LLM solutions for complex mission challenges while maintaining standards for safety and reliability.
You will guide customers from technical discovery through successful deployment, working primarily on-site in secure government facilities.

Serve as the dedicated technical advisor for one or more national security mission programs, from discovery and evaluation through deployment and adoption.
Support the customer building with Claude Code, the Claude API, and Claude for Enterprise.
Help develop evaluation frameworks to measure Claude's performance for mission-specific use cases.
Guide technical architecture decisions and integration into the customer's existing stack.
Coordinate internally across Sales, Product, and Engineering to drive customer success.
Create and deliver technical content from engineering deep dives to executive briefings.
Work primarily on-site with the customer's engineering and mission teams in secure government facilities, while maintaining close internal coordination and feedback with Anthropic’s Applied AI and Engineering teams.

Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph
Prior experience working within US intelligence community agencies as a government civilian or cleared contractor
Experience in technical customer-facing roles (solutions architecture, sales engineering, or similar)
Exceptional ability to communicate technical concepts to diverse stakeholders, from engineers to executives
Hands-on expertise in one or more domains including offensive or defensive cyber operations, cryptography and cryptanalysis, intelligence analysis and ISR, mission and weapons systems, CBRN and nonproliferation, or accreditation of classified systems
Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience in a relevant field of study

5+ years in Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, Technical Account Manager or equivalent roles
Familiarity with common LLM frameworks and tools
Background in artificial intelligence, machine learning, or data science
Experience designing scalable cloud architectures and integrating with enterprise systems
Experience deploying and operating software in air-gapped or classified environments

Work primarily on-site with the customer's engineering and mission teams in secure government facilities.
Location-based hybrid policy expects staff to be in an office at least 25% of the time, though some roles may require more time in offices.

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