Applied AI Architect : North America

September 16, 2026 Auto Import

<h2>Remote (North America)</h2><h2>10–20% Travel</h2><h1>About <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://www.forgd.ai">forgd</a></h1>forgd is the consultancy partnering exclusively with Anthropic to help enterprises buildAI-native businesses. We start with engineering — helping organizations move fromindividual developers using Claude Code to entire teams shipping together with AI-nativeworkflows — and expand into agentic solution delivery and broader businesstransformation.Our conviction is that engineers are uniquely positioned to lead this transformation. Thestrongest mental model for designing, deploying, and governing AI agents in productionlives in software engineering. The teams that change how their organization buildssoftware are the same teams equipped to shepherd the rest of the business into this newworld.We embed and co-build with customer teams. Cycles are short, delivery is iterative andaccountable to clear outcome goals.<h2>About the Role</h2>As an Applied AI Architect, you embed with enterprise customers and own the technicalwork across the full customer journey — initial demos, short proof-of-value engagements,and multi-week implementations. The work moves customers from interesting prototypesto production capability.Most engagements start in engineering. You'll work with customer engineering teamsadopting Claude Code and redesigning their SDLC — code review, requirements, testing,documentation, and governance. From there, the work expands: co-building agenticapplications and modernizing legacy systems on the Claude developer platform, andpartnering with business stakeholders to deploy agents into core operations like sales,customer service, and finance.You're the expert in the room on how engineers work with Claude Code, what an agenticapplication looks like in production, and what has to change in an organization to sustaineither. You build prototypes, ship code, run workshops, write specs, and make the callsthat move customers from demos to deployment.Collaborate directly with Anthropic on customer engagements — joint working sessions,early access to product changes, and a direct line to their product and engineering teams.<h2>Responsibilities:</h2><h2>Enable</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Lead Claude Code Labs and customer workshops</li><li>Take customer teams from beginner to power user across Claude Code, Claude for</li><li>Work, Cowork, and the developer platform</li><li>Codify deployment patterns and feed them back to forgd's methodology and</li><li>Anthropic's product teams</li><li></li></ul><h2>Transform</h2>Lead discovery into customer environments — engineering toolchains andworkflows, business operations, and organizational dynamics — and turn that intoclear technical plansAdvise on how AI-native development changes existing engineering practices:issue management, branching, testing, code review, and securityGuide adoption programs that scale Claude across engineering organizations andinto business teams<h2>Build</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Scope engagements: assumptions, risks, milestones, and dependencies</li><li>Embed with customer teams to co-build agentic applications on the Claude</li><li>developer platform</li><li>Build technical artifacts — evaluation frameworks, MCP servers, sub-agents, and</li><li>deployment configurations — tailored to the customer's stack</li></ul>What Success Looks Like<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Customers move from proof-of-value to production</li><li>Engineering teams measurably change how they ship software</li><li>Customers become references</li><li>Accounts expand on the strength of the work</li></ul>You May Be a Good Fit If You Have<ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>3–5 years in a customer-facing technical role — Solutions Architect, Sales</li><li>Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Technical Consultant — or in a hands-on</li><li>engineering role as a Software Engineer or Product Engineer</li><li>Software development experience in a high-scale startup or enterprise</li><li>environment; you know what it takes to write, ship, and operate production code</li><li>Production experience with LLMs — prompt engineering, agent design, and</li><li>evaluation frameworks.</li><li>Power user of Claude Code or equivalent AI coding assistants; you live in AI-native</li><li>development yourself</li><li>Familiarity with enterprise development toolchains, CI/CD, and modern SDLC</li><li>practices, and cloud-native deployment on AWS, GCP, or Azure</li><li>Communication skills that work across the room — individual contributors,</li><li>engineering leadership, and business stakeholders</li><li>High agency and comfort with ambiguity; you operate autonomously in customer environments</li></ul><h2>Nice to Have</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Background in professional services or consulting</li><li>Track record leading developer productivity or developer experience at scale</li><li>Vertical experience in financial services, healthcare, or other regulated industries</li><li>Experience driving organizational change</li></ul><h2>What We Offer</h2>Work at the frontier: Direct partnership with Anthropic — joint engagements, earlyaccess to product changes, and working sessions with their Applied AI teamFounding team: You shape how we work and grow as we scaleRemote: Fully remote across North American and European time zonesCompensation and benefits: Competitive salary, equity, and full benefits<h2>How to Apply</h2>We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every qualification. Research showspeople from underrepresented groups often hesitate unless they meet every requirement,and we don't want you to exclude yourself prematurely. If you're excited about AI-nativeengineering and want to help enterprises change how they build software, we'd love tohear from you.<h2>Equal Opportunity Employer</h2>forgd is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive considerationfor employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, genderidentity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any othercharacteristic protected by applicable law. We make hiring decisions on merit, and weprovide reasonable accommodations for candidates who need them during the hiringprocess.

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