Applied AI Engineer, Beneficial Deployments

About Beneficial Deployments:

Beneficial Deployments ensures AI reaches and benefits the communities that need it most. We partner with nonprofits, foundations, and mission-driven organizations to deploy Claude in education, global health, economic mobility, and life sciences, focusing on raising the floor.

About the role:

We're looking for an Applied AI Engineer to join our Beneficial Deployments team. You’ll use your deep technical expertise to help partners accelerate their impact through advising on evals, hill-climbing on harnesses, prototyping new agents, etc. You will also work on building ecosystem-level tooling and infrastructure to scale impact beyond individual partnerships.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a deep technical partner to mission-driven organizations through advising on evals, agent architectures, context engineering, cost optimization, and more
• Provide hands-on support to partner engineering teams through pair programming, prototyping, and code contributions that accelerate their development
• Develop public goods infrastructure that benefits entire ecosystems through benchmarks, MCP’s, and Agent Skills
• Identify challenges unique to social impact partners, and contribute findings and improvements back to product, engineering, and research
• Create technical presentations, demos, and scalable technical content (documentation, tutorials, sample code) to accelerate partner adoption and self-service
• Help shape team processes and culture as we scale from 1 to N
• Travel occasionally to customer sites for workshops, technical deep dives, and relationship building

You might be a good fit if you have:

• 4+ years as a Software Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, or technical founder
• Production experience building LLM-powered applications, including prompting, context engineering, agent architectures, evaluation frameworks, and deployment at scale
• Builder credibility that earns trust with technical founders and engineering teams—you've shipped products and can speak from experience
• Experience working in ed-tech, healthcare, scientific research, nonprofit, or other mission-driven organizations, understanding their unique challenges and constraints
• A love of teaching, mentoring, and helping others succeed
• A scrappy mentality - comfortable wearing multiple hats, building from scratch, driving clarity in ambiguous situations, and doing whatever it takes to further the mission