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 funded0 current maintainers0 active leadsTeam intelligence

Maintainer signals as of 9/24/2026

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 will build the design canvas, real-time editing, comments, and live adjustment controls. You will set direction for complex frontend architecture, collaborate with research, design, and users, run product experiments, improve performance and reliability, and strengthen the handoff from designs to production code.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of full-stack application development experience with deep frontend strength
  • Experience setting technical direction and mentoring engineers
  • Strong design sensibility and interaction design craft
  • Experience with React, TypeScript, Node.js, Python, Go, client-side state, APIs, databases, and cloud technologies
  • Experience validating ideas with users
  • Ability to communicate complex AI capabilities through intuitive experiences
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, or experience
  • Relevant field of study demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Responsibilities

  • Build and ship design canvas, real-time editing, inline comments, and live adjustment controls
  • Turn vision and generation capabilities into intuitive design experiences
  • Gather feedback from designers, test users, and external partners
  • Set technical direction for editor, canvas, collaboration, import/export, and performance challenges
  • Design and run product and generation-quality experiments
  • Maintain a high bar for product quality, latency, responsiveness, and reliability
  • Improve the handoff from designs to production code
  • Shape the roadmap, make architecture decisions, and mentor engineers

Benefits

  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation
  • Parental leave
  • Flexible working hours