Staff+ Software Engineer, Claude Design

Details

Claude Design enables users to collaborate with Claude to create interactive prototypes, product mockups, slides, animations, and other polished visual work. This product engineering role focuses on building creative capabilities for Claude, including canvas experiences, real-time editing, design-system inference, and AI-driven generation.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship user-facing features across Anthropic’s products.
• Help determine which creative product areas to explore next.
• Set technical direction for editor and canvas architecture, real-time collaboration, and rich import and export.
• Own the quality bar for product appearance, interaction, latency, responsiveness, reliability, and overall user experience.
• Partner with researchers to prototype experiences involving vision and generation capabilities and improve the quality of Claude’s output.
• Engage with users to understand how products are used and translate findings into product improvements.
• Build shared foundations that enable new creative tools to launch quickly and work well together.

Requirements

• Strong design sensibility and a high standard for craft, including interaction details, motion, and polish.
• Strong full-stack engineering skills, including production frontend and backend development for user-facing web products.
• Ability to work effectively in ambiguous and uncertain environments.
• High agency, sound judgment, and a bias toward shipping.
• A deeply user-centric approach, including validating ideas with users and discussing problems before solutions.
• Ability to advocate for ideas while changing direction based on evidence.
• Care for Anthropic’s mission and the societal impacts of the work.

Preferred Qualifications

• Extensive experience building visual collaboration and creative tools.
• Experience with UI and UX for AI-powered applications and close collaboration with designers.
• Deep frontend expertise in canvas rendering, complex editor interfaces, design-system tooling, or graphics, including WebGL, shaders, 3D, or animation.
• Experience with real-time collaborative applications, such as multiplayer editing and WebSockets.
• Experience 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.
• Experience optimizing performance through profiling, rendering improvements, and end-to-end latency tracing.

Education and Logistics

• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
• Required field of study: A field relevant to the role, demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
• Years of experience will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position.
• Anthropic currently expects staff to work from one of its offices at least 25% of the time, although some roles may require more office time.
• Anthropic states that it sponsors visas and will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa for candidates who receive an offer, although sponsorship is not guaranteed for every role or candidate.

Benefits

Anthropic offers competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and an office space for collaboration.