Anthropic

Staff+ Software Engineer, Claude Design

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2 days ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$405k - $485k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and ship user-facing features across Claude Design and related products.
  • Set technical direction for editor and canvas architecture, real-time collaboration, and rich import and export.
  • Own the products’ visual quality, responsiveness, latency, reliability, and user experience.
  • Partner with researchers to prototype experiences around vision and generation capabilities and improve generated output quality.
  • Conduct user research and use product insights to guide future development.
  • Build shared foundations that enable rapid development of new creative tools.

Requirements

  • Strong design sensibility and a high bar for craft, including interaction details, motion, and polish.
  • Strong full-stack engineering skills with production frontend and backend experience on user-facing web products.
  • Ability to work effectively amid ambiguity with high agency, sound judgment, and a bias toward shipping.
  • Deeply user-centric approach, including validating ideas with users and discussing problems before solutions.
  • Willingness to advocate for ideas while changing direction based on evidence.
  • Care for Anthropic’s mission and the societal impacts of AI work.
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience in a relevant field or demonstrated through relevant coursework, training, or professional experience.
  • Extensive experience with visual collaboration or creative tools is preferred.
  • Experience with UI and UX for AI-powered applications and close collaboration with designers is preferred.
  • Deep frontend expertise in canvas rendering, complex editor UIs, design-system tooling, or graphics work such as WebGL, shaders, 3D, or animation is preferred.
  • Experience with real-time collaborative applications such as multiplayer editing and WebSockets is preferred.
  • Experience conducting user research, interviews, and usability testing is preferred.
  • Experience shipping 0-to-1 products, building product platforms or shared foundations, and optimizing performance is preferred.

Benefits

  • Annual salary range of $405,000–$485,000 USD.
  • Hybrid policy requiring staff to work from an Anthropic office at least 25% of the time, with some roles requiring more office time.
  • Visa sponsorship is offered, with reasonable efforts made to obtain a visa if an offer is extended, subject to role and candidate eligibility.
  • Optional equity donation matching.
  • Generous vacation and parental leave.
  • Flexible working hours.
  • Office space for collaboration.
Anthropic

About Anthropic

5,001-10,000 employees

Anthropic builds large language models and the Claude AI assistant for developers and enterprises, offered via API access and enterprise plans. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco, it distributes Claude through its own platform and via partners such as Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI. Its work emphasizes model reliability, interpretability, and practical tooling for tasks like coding assistance, analysis, and customer support automation.

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