Staff+ Software Engineer, Consumer
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA
About this role
**Staff Software Engineer, Consumer** **About Anthropic** Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems—safe and beneficial for users and society. **About the role** You’ll be a founding engineer on a small zero-to-one team building brand new consumer AI products. This is an end-to-end ownership role: you’ll originate product bets, shape vague ideas into the leanest real version one, and ship—then iterate quickly based on user feedback and internal testing. **Key responsibilities** - Originate new consumer AI product bets and own them from first idea to launch - Identify gaps between what Claude can do and what people actually experience; define what to build, why now, and the cheapest way to test - Take a vague direction and cut it down to the leanest real version one - Set technical direction for the products you build - Own the quality bar (latency, responsiveness, reliability, and overall product look/feel) - Partner with privacy, security, legal, design, platform teams, and external partners to find a path to launch - Iterate quickly based on user feedback and internal testing - Keep pushing new products over the line—most zero-to-one bets don’t work the first time **Minimum qualifications** - Experience building consumer-facing products with strong product quality and UX focus - Experience taking a consumer product from nothing to real users - Proficiency in React, Next.js, and TypeScript - Backend experience with Node.js **Preferred qualifications** - 5+ years building consumer-facing products with strong product quality and UX focus - Experience founding a company / being on a founding team / early engineer on a new consumer product - Experience with real-time or streaming interactions (chat interfaces, live updates) - Experience optimizing performance for consumer web apps (bundle size, rendering, end-to-end latency) - High agency and willingness to own a bet without a roadmap - Relentlessness: verify instead of assume; stay curious - Product taste and strong craft judgment (what you’d refuse to ship) - High EQ: collaborate effectively across teams and constraints - Willingness to pick up slack beyond your job description **Compensation** Annual salary range: **$320,000 – $405,000 USD** **Logistics** - **Minimum education:** Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent combination of education/training/experience) - **Required field of study:** Relevant to the role (via coursework, training, or professional experience) - **Location-based hybrid policy:** Expected to be in one of the offices at least **25% of the time** (some roles may require more) - **Visa sponsorship:** Yes—Anthropic makes reasonable efforts to sponsor visas when possible **Safety note** Anthropic recruiters only contact candidates from **@anthropic.com** email addresses (and sometimes vetted recruiting agencies). Legitimate recruiters will never ask for money/fees/banking information before your first day. **Apply** We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every qualification listed.
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