Staff+ Software Engineer, Claude Design

AI safety and research company building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems, including the Claude product family and developer platform.

Series F+Recently funded51 current maintainers45 active leads15 new active leads30 lead step-downs10 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
About Anthropic

Anthropic PBC develops frontier AI systems and deploys them through Claude products and the Claude Platform, with a stated focus on safety, interpretability, and steerability.

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About the Role

You'll build and shape Claude Design, creating the canvas, real-time editing, design-system inference, and AI-driven generation experiences. You'll set technical direction, own the quality bar for look and feel, prototype with researchers, and learn from users to decide what to build next.

Requirements

  • Strong design sensibility and a high bar for craft
  • Strong full-stack engineering skills, including production frontend and backend work on user-facing web products
  • Ability to thrive in ambiguity
  • High agency, good judgment and a bias toward shipping
  • User-centric approach
  • Care for Anthropic's mission and societal impacts

Responsibilities

  • Build and ship user-facing features and help decide which creative spaces to explore next
  • Set technical direction including editor and canvas architecture, real-time collaboration, and rich import and export
  • Own the quality bar for look and feel, treating latency, responsiveness and reliability as first-class concerns
  • Partner with researchers to prototype experiences around vision and generation capabilities
  • Spend time with users and turn learnings into what to build next
  • Build shared foundations to launch new creative tools quickly

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation and parental leave
  • Flexible working hours
  • Visa sponsorship