# Applied AI Engineer, Startups (Physical AI)

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $280,000-$320,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116758847

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## Description

As an Applied AI Engineer on the Startups team at Anthropic, you will be a trusted technical advisor to top AI-native startups building in the physical world, across robotics, semiconductors, aerospace, manufacturing, and civil infrastructure.

You'll lead deep technical engagements, partnering directly with startup software and hardware engineering teams to help them build their products on Claude and run their own engineering with it, advising on implementation and agent design as they build what is newly possible with AI in the physical world.

Responsibilities:

- Serve as a deep technical advisor to high-potential startups building in the physical world.

- Work hands-on with startup software and hardware teams through pair programming and architecture reviews.

- Develop prototypes and technical documentation.

- Create reference implementations and sample code.

- Collaborate closely with Applied AI Architects.

- Identify patterns across engagements and build repeatable evaluations and solutions.

- Create technical content for startup audiences.

- Foster community engagement through hackathons, webinars, technical office hours, and startup-focused events.

- Travel to customer sites for workshops, implementation guidance, and relationship building.

Requirements:

- Deep engineering experience in a physical discipline.

- 4+ years of technical experience as a software engineer, ML or research engineer, robotics or controls engineer, hardware or systems engineer, or technical founder.

- Experience with startups or high-growth companies.

- Strong technical communication skills.

- A collaborative approach to working across teams.

The annual compensation range for this role is $280,000-$320,000 USD.

## Skills

### Required
- AI engineering
- software engineering
- ML
- robotics
- hardware engineering

### Nice to have
- startups
- high-growth companies
- technical communication

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