AI Engineer Jobs in Washington, DC

Anthropic

As a member of the Applied AI team at Anthropic, you will be an Applied AI Engineer supporting a dedicated national security mission program. You will serve as the customer's trusted technical advisor, working closely with their engineering and mission teams as they build and ship new capabilities powered by Claude. This involves advising on architecture design decisions, developing evaluation frameworks, and guiding them through cutting-edge implementation patterns for LLMs. You will combine deep engineering expertise and cyber domain knowledge with customer-facing skills to help the customer unlock the full potential of Claude and move their mission capabilities closer to the frontier, while maintaining Anthropic's high standards for safety and reliability.

$280k - $320k

OpenAI

We are seeking a driven solutions leader with a product mindset to partner with public sector customers and ensure they achieve tangible value with GenAI. You will collaborate with government agencies, policymakers, and public institutions to establish a GenAI strategy and identify the highest value applications. You will then partner with their technical teams, subject matter experts, systems integrators, and implementation partners to move from prototype through production, designing an architecture using the OpenAI API and other services to maximize customer value. This role involves deeply embedding with sophisticated public sector customers as the technical lead, serving as their technical thought partner to ideate and build novel applications on our API and other OpenAI foundational technologies like Codex.

$211k - $302k

OpenAI

We are seeking a hands-on Applied AI Engineer with deep cybersecurity experience and a product mindset to help government and national security customers apply frontier AI to critical cyber missions. You will bring practical expertise in areas such as red teaming, vulnerability research, reverse engineering, and threat hunting, ideally developed through work with the defense and intelligence sector. Working directly with cyber operators, security researchers, and engineering teams, you’ll identify high-value applications, write code, build and evaluate AI-powered tools and agentic workflows, and move solutions from prototype into secure operational use. You’ll design architectures using OpenAI models, APIs, and existing security tooling, grounded in customers’ mission requirements and operational constraints. You will collaborate closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Applied Research, Product, and Security teams to deliver measurable improvements in cyber capabilities and translate customer experience into better models and products.

$211k - $302k