Applied AI Architect : North America

Remote (North America)
10–20% Travel

About forgd

forgd is the consultancy partnering exclusively with Anthropic to help enterprises build
AI-native businesses. We start with engineering — helping organizations move from
individual developers using Claude Code to entire teams shipping together with AI-native
workflows — and expand into agentic solution delivery and broader business
transformation.

Our conviction is that engineers are uniquely positioned to lead this transformation. The
strongest mental model for designing, deploying, and governing AI agents in production
lives in software engineering. The teams that change how their organization builds
software are the same teams equipped to shepherd the rest of the business into this new
world.

We embed and co-build with customer teams. Cycles are short, delivery is iterative and
accountable to clear outcome goals.

About the Role
As an Applied AI Architect, you embed with enterprise customers and own the technical
work across the full customer journey — initial demos, short proof-of-value engagements,
and multi-week implementations. The work moves customers from interesting prototypes
to production capability.

Most engagements start in engineering. You'll work with customer engineering teams
adopting Claude Code and redesigning their SDLC — code review, requirements, testing,
documentation, and governance. From there, the work expands: co-building agentic
applications and modernizing legacy systems on the Claude developer platform, and
partnering 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 agentic
application looks like in production, and what has to change in an organization to sustain
either. You build prototypes, ship code, run workshops, write specs, and make the calls
that 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.

Responsibilities:

Enable
Lead Claude Code Labs and customer workshops

Take customer teams from beginner to power user across Claude Code, Claude for

Work, Cowork, and the developer platform

Codify deployment patterns and feed them back to forgd's methodology and

Anthropic's product teams

Transform
Lead discovery into customer environments — engineering toolchains and
workflows, business operations, and organizational dynamics — and turn that into
clear technical plans
Advise on how AI-native development changes existing engineering practices:
issue management, branching, testing, code review, and security
Guide adoption programs that scale Claude across engineering organizations and
into business teams

Build
Scope engagements: assumptions, risks, milestones, and dependencies

Embed with customer teams to co-build agentic applications on the Claude

developer platform

Build technical artifacts — evaluation frameworks, MCP servers, sub-agents, and

deployment configurations — tailored to the customer's stack

What Success Looks Like
Customers move from proof-of-value to production

Engineering teams measurably change how they ship software

Customers become references

Accounts expand on the strength of the work

You May Be a Good Fit If You Have
3–5 years in a customer-facing technical role — Solutions Architect, Sales

Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Technical Consultant — or in a hands-on

engineering role as a Software Engineer or Product Engineer

Software development experience in a high-scale startup or enterprise

environment; you know what it takes to write, ship, and operate production code

Production experience with LLMs — prompt engineering, agent design, and

evaluation frameworks.

Power user of Claude Code or equivalent AI coding assistants; you live in AI-native

development yourself

Familiarity with enterprise development toolchains, CI/CD, and modern SDLC

practices, and cloud-native deployment on AWS, GCP, or Azure

Communication skills that work across the room — individual contributors,

engineering leadership, and business stakeholders

High agency and comfort with ambiguity; you operate autonomously in customer environments

Nice to Have
Background in professional services or consulting

Track record leading developer productivity or developer experience at scale

Vertical experience in financial services, healthcare, or other regulated industries

Experience driving organizational change

What We Offer
Work at the frontier: Direct partnership with Anthropic — joint engagements, early
access to product changes, and working sessions with their Applied AI team
Founding team: You shape how we work and grow as we scale
Remote: Fully remote across North American and European time zones
Compensation and benefits: Competitive salary, equity, and full benefits

How to Apply
We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every qualification. Research shows
people 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-native
engineering and want to help enterprises change how they build software, we'd love to
hear from you.

Equal Opportunity Employer
forgd is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration
for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender
identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other
characteristic protected by applicable law. We make hiring decisions on merit, and we
provide reasonable accommodations for candidates who need them during the hiring
process.