Staff+ Software Engineer, Claude Design
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY
About this role
**Staff Software Engineer — Claude Design (Anthropic)** **About Anthropic** Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems—safe and beneficial for users and society. **About the role** Claude Design lets people collaborate with Claude to create polished visual work (interactive prototypes, product mockups, slides, and animations). You’ll help build the creative capabilities that make AI-generated design feel like a tool people reach for—not a demo. This is a craft-heavy product engineering role where you’ll build the canvas, real-time editing, design-system inference, and AI-driven generation experiences. You’ll work at the intersection of cutting-edge research and real-world application, partnering directly with researchers and users to rapidly prototype, test, and iterate. **Key responsibilities** - Build and ship user-facing features across Claude Design and related products; help decide which creative spaces to explore next - Set technical direction (editor/canvas architecture, real-time collaboration, rich import/export) - Own the quality bar (latency, responsiveness, reliability) and raise UX/design considerations early - Partner with researchers to prototype experiences around vision and generation; improve the quality of Claude’s outputs - Spend time with users to understand real usage, then translate learnings into what you build next - Build shared foundations that enable launching new creative tools quickly and making them work well together **Minimum qualifications** - Strong design sensibility and a high bar for craft (interaction details, motion, polish) - Strong full-stack engineering skills for production frontend and backend work on user-facing web products - Ability to thrive in ambiguity and be energized by uncertainty - High agency, good judgment, and a bias toward shipping - Deeply user-centric approach (validate with real users; discuss problems before solutions) - Strong opinions held loosely (advocate, but change based on evidence) - Care for Anthropic’s mission and the societal impacts of your work **Preferred qualifications** - Experience building visual collaboration and creative tools - UI/UX experience for AI-powered applications; close collaboration with designers - Deep frontend expertise in canvas rendering, complex editor UIs, design-system tooling, or graphics (e.g., WebGL, shaders, 3D, animation) - Experience with real-time collaborative apps (e.g., multiplayer editing, WebSockets) - Background in user research (interviews, usability testing) - Experience building and shipping products from 0 to 1 - Experience building product platforms/primitives/shared foundations - Performance optimization experience (profiling, rendering improvements, end-to-end latency tracing) **Compensation** - **Annual Salary:** **$405,000 — $485,000 USD** **Logistics** - **Minimum education:** Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent combination of education/training/experience) - **Required field of study:** Field relevant to the role (via coursework/training/professional experience) - **Minimum years of experience:** Correlates with internal job level - **Location-based hybrid policy:** Expected to be in an office at least **25%** of the time (some roles may require more) - **Visa sponsorship:** Yes (not guaranteed for every role/candidate, but reasonable efforts are made) - **California fair chance statement:** Consideration for qualified applicants with arrest/conviction records consiste
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