Applied AI Architect : North America
— · Remote · Denver
Job description
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.
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