Used Tools & Technologies
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Required Skills & Competences
Tag name is followed by "@" symbol and proficiency level value.
About proficiency levels:
- 1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;
- 3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;
- 7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;
- 10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.
Marketing @ 3
Go @ 3
TypeScript @ 6
Python @ 3
Machine Learning @ 3
Communication @ 3
Mentoring @ 3
React @ 6
Node.js @ 6
UI/UX @ 5
API @ 3
Figma @ 3
Claude Code @ 3
AI @ 3
- 1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;
- 3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;
- 7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;
- 10 — exceptional knowledge, comprehensive understanding, and adeptness in all aspects of the technology, including advanced problem-solving. Think twice before claiming or demanding such level.
Details
About Anthropic
Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The team is a growing group of researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working to build beneficial AI systems.
About the role
Claude Design is a product from Anthropic Labs that lets users collaborate with Claude to create polished visual work: interactive prototypes, product mockups, slides, one-pagers, and marketing collateral. Engineers joining now will shape the product as it moves beyond research preview.
This is a craft-heavy, frontend-leaning Software Engineer role. You'll build the canvas, real-time editing, design-system inference, and AI-driven generation experiences. You will work at the intersection of research and product, rapidly building and testing new experiences in partnership with researchers, designers, and users.
Responsibilities
- Build and ship Claude Design's core surfaces (design canvas, real-time editing, inline comments, live adjustment controls), shipping early and often
- Collaborate with research teams to turn generation capabilities into intuitive design experiences
- Work with designers, internal test users, and external partners to gather feedback and iterate quickly
- Set technical direction for frontend challenges: editor and canvas architecture, real-time collaboration, design-system inference, import/export, and performance at scale
- Design and run experiments to test product hypotheses (prototypes, user tests, generation quality evaluations)
- Own the product's quality bar for latency, responsiveness, reliability, and polish
- Improve handoff to Claude Code so designs translate cleanly into production and feed insights back to research
- Operate as a technical leader on a small team: shape roadmap, make pragmatic architecture decisions, and mentor engineers
Requirements (Qualifications & Skills)
- 8+ years of experience building full-stack applications with deep frontend strength and track record of zero-to-one work in startup or startup-like environments
- Experience setting technical direction for a team or workstream and mentoring other engineers while remaining hands-on
- Strong design sensibility and high bar for craft; focus on interaction details, motion, and polish
- Strong technical skills across modern web stacks (React, TypeScript, Node.js, Python, Go, etc.), including complex client-side state, performance, APIs, databases, and cloud technologies
- Comfortable working in a fast-moving environment with shifting priorities and rapid shipping
- Deeply user-centric: validate ideas with actual users before over-investing
- Generalist who can move between frontend, backend, and product problems as needed
- Effective communicator who can translate complex AI capabilities into intuitive experiences
- Care about societal impacts and ethics of your work
Strong candidates may also have
- Extensive experience with visual collaboration & creative tools (Figma, Canva, Adobe Creative Cloud)
- Hands-on UI/UX experience for AI-powered applications and fluency collaborating with designers
- Background conducting user research, interviews, and usability testing
- Deep frontend expertise in canvas rendering, complex editor UIs, design-system tooling, or graphics work (WebGL/shaders, 3D, animation)
- Experience with real-time collaborative applications (multiplayer editing, WebSockets) or other high-performance frontend interactions
Candidates need not have
- 100% of the skills listed above
- Formal certifications or education credentials
- Direct machine learning or AI research experience
Logistics
- Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
- Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
- Minimum years of experience: Correlates with internal job level requirements for the position
- Location-based hybrid policy: Staff are expected to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time (some roles may require more time in office)
- Visa sponsorship: Anthropic states they do sponsor visas and retain an immigration lawyer to help where reasonable efforts are possible
Compensation
- Annual Salary: $320,000 - $485,000 USD
How we're different
Anthropic works as a cohesive team on a few large-scale research efforts, values impact, and hosts frequent research discussions. The company emphasizes communication and collaborative work on high-impact AI research.
Additional notes
- Deadline to apply: None (applications reviewed on a rolling basis)
- The posting encourages applicants from diverse backgrounds and includes guidance on candidate AI usage during the application process.