Staff+ Software Engineer, Claude Design

Anthropic • San Francisco, NY

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

Anthropic is hiring a Staff+ Software Engineer to help build and shape Claude Design and Claude’s creative capabilities. Claude Design enables people to collaborate with Claude on polished visual work, including interactive prototypes, product mockups, slides, and animations. The team works on Artifacts in Claude, including Claude Design, Slides, and Motion, and explores new creative products.

This is a craft-heavy product engineering role focused on building canvas, real-time editing, design-system inference, and AI-driven generation experiences. The engineer will work at the intersection of research and product, rapidly building and testing experiences, partnering with researchers and users, and using insights to guide product direction. The role is on a small, fast-moving team with high autonomy.

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. Its mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that are safe and beneficial for users and society. The role follows a location-based hybrid policy: staff are currently expected to be in an office at least 25% of the time, though some roles may require more. The position requires a bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience in a field relevant to the role. Years of experience will correlate with internal job-level requirements.

Requirements

• Strong design sensibility and a high bar for craft, including attention to interaction details, motion, and polish.
• Strong full-stack engineering skills, including production frontend and backend work on user-facing web products.
• Ability to thrive in ambiguity and be energized by uncertainty.
• High agency, good judgment about what matters, and a bias toward shipping.
• A deeply user-centric approach, including validating ideas with actual users before over-investing and discussing problems before solutions.
• Strong opinions held loosely: advocate forcefully for ideas while changing course based on evidence.
• Care for Anthropic’s mission and the societal impacts of the work.
• Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience in a field relevant to the role.

Nice To Haves

• Extensive experience working with or building visual collaboration and creative tools.
• Experience with UI and UX for AI-powered applications and fluency collaborating closely with designers.
• Deep frontend expertise in canvas rendering, complex editor UIs, design-system tooling, or graphics work such as WebGL, shaders, 3D, or animation.
• Experience with real-time collaborative applications, such as multiplayer editing and WebSockets.
• Background conducting user research, interviews, and usability testing.
• Experience building and shipping products from 0 to 1.
• Experience building product platforms, primitives, or shared foundations used by other products and teams.
• Performance optimization experience, such as profiling, improving rendering, and tracing end-to-end latency.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship user-facing features across products 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 product look and feel, treating latency, responsiveness, and reliability as first-class concerns and raising user experience and design considerations early.
• Partner with researchers to rapidly prototype experiences around vision and generation capabilities and improve the quality of Claude’s generated output.
• Spend time with users, understand how they use shipped products, and turn those insights into future product work.
• Build shared foundations that enable new creative tools to launch quickly and work well together.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits.
• Optional equity donation matching.
• Generous vacation and parental leave.
• Flexible working hours.
• Office space for collaborating with colleagues.
• Visa sponsorship may be available; Anthropic states it will make reasonable efforts to obtain a visa for candidates receiving an offer and provides assistance from an immigration lawyer.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior