Applied AI Engineer, Startups (Physical AI) is open at Anthropic in San Francisco, CA. The posting gives a salary of $280K - $320K. Posted on Oct 15, 2026, and still on Anthropic’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
As an Applied AI Engineer on the Startups team at Anthropic, you will be a trusted technical advisor to the top AI-native startups building in the physical world, across robotics, semiconductors, aerospace, manufacturing, and civil infrastructure, as they grow from early product to scale. Some of these companies build the hardware itself and want Claude woven into how they design, test, and operate it, and others…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Anthropic’s careers page.
Hiring at Anthropic
Anthropic has 669 open roles right now, 59 of them remote. Most are in Engineering, Sales & Business Development and Data & Research. The median advertised salary across its roles with a published range is $352K. See all its roles
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