Anthropic — Forward Deployed Engineer, Applied AI
job-description · source →Retrieved, not guessed: 6 competency clusters, 23 concept/tool nodes grounded in real sources (21 Wikipedia/GitHub definitions), and 8 skills from the ESCO taxonomy — off-domain hits filtered out. Every node carries a real definition; edges are real relationships where an open KG had them.
Extracted tools
Ship production backend/services in Python (and a second language).
not good at: greenfield research with no delivery pressure
no field trials yet — verdict held until outcomes are logged
Deploy inside the customer's environment under real access/security constraints.
not good at: pure SaaS with no on-prem / VPC reality
no field trials yet — verdict held until outcomes are logged
Prompt, evaluate, and deploy LLMs at scale.
not good at: classical ML / heavy feature engineering
no field trials yet — verdict held until outcomes are logged
Build tool-using agents, sub-agents, MCP servers, and agent skills.
not good at: low-latency non-agentic services
no field trials yet — verdict held until outcomes are logged
Own ambiguity: embed with the customer, scope the smallest win, codify patterns.
not good at: fully-specced ticket work handed to you in pieces
no field trials yet — verdict held until outcomes are logged
Represent at the highest level; sequence delivery; codify playbooks.
not good at: deep IC-only crunch with no stakeholder surface
no field trials yet — verdict held until outcomes are logged
A defined competence in the ESCO taxonomy.
not good at: a taxonomy label until proven by a work sample
no field trials yet — verdict held until outcomes are logged
A defined competence in the ESCO taxonomy.
not good at: a taxonomy label until proven by a work sample
no field trials yet — verdict held until outcomes are logged
A defined competence in the ESCO taxonomy.
not good at: a taxonomy label until proven by a work sample
no field trials yet — verdict held until outcomes are logged
A defined competence in the ESCO taxonomy.
not good at: a taxonomy label until proven by a work sample
no field trials yet — verdict held until outcomes are logged
A defined competence in the ESCO taxonomy.
not good at: a taxonomy label until proven by a work sample
no field trials yet — verdict held until outcomes are logged
A defined competence in the ESCO taxonomy.
not good at: a taxonomy label until proven by a work sample
no field trials yet — verdict held until outcomes are logged