# Applied AI Architect, Startups

Hiring organization: [Menlo Ventures Portfolio](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/menlo-ventures-portfolio)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/d2ec891d-b7db-4651-a028-d5209b98d063

Listed on Menlo Ventures Portfolio's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Mid
- Location: New York, NY
- Salary: 240000 – 315000 USD per year

## Summary

This role sells Claude AI to startup founders and engineers, providing technical guidance to help them build and deploy LLM applications. You'll combine sales expertise with deep hands-on AI engineering knowledge to become a trusted technical partner through evaluation, architecture design, and deployment support.

_Our summary, not Menlo Ventures Portfolio's wording._

## Skills named

Context Engineering, Python

## Required

- 3+ years in technical customer-facing roles (Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, or founder-led sales)
- Experience working with startups or high-growth companies
- Strong software engineering background or technical founder experience
- Deep technical proficiency with building and scaling AI products
- Hands-on production experience building and deploying LLM applications
- Strong technical communication skills
- Track record selling technical products in competitive markets
- Comfortable with Python and familiar with common LLM frameworks and tools
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent

## Nice to have

- Passion for making powerful technology safe and societally beneficial
- Familiarity with modern AI architectures and best practices

Apply on Menlo Ventures Portfolio's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5406982008