Staff Software Engineer, Claude Design
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA · San Francisco, CA
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Frontier labonsitestaff$320k–$485k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build the design canvas and real-time editing for Claude Design.
- Turn frontier vision and generation research into intuitive design tools.
- Define a new product launched in research preview in April 2026.
What they offer
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
- Lovely office space for collaboration
Ideal candidate
A craft-driven zero-to-one builder with strong design sensibility who sweats interaction polish. You are user-centric, comfortable with ambiguity, and motivated by safe, beneficial AI impact.
Requirements
- 8+ years building full-stack applications with deep frontend strength
- Track record of zero-to-one work in startup or startup-like environments
- Set technical direction and mentored engineers while staying hands-on
- Strong design sensibility and high bar for craft
- Comfortable in fast-moving environment and shipping quickly
- Deeply user-centric and validates ideas with users
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training and experience
- remote policy
- Location-based hybrid policy: staff expected in office at least 25% of the time.
- visa sponsorship
- We do sponsor visas, but unable to successfully sponsor visas for every role and candidate
- hiring process
- Applications reviewed on a rolling basis with no deadline.
Lab profile
About Anthropic
AI safety company building reliable, interpretable and steerable frontier AI systems.
What they build
- Claude
- Claude API
- Claude Code
Known for
- AI safety and alignment
- Model interpretability research
- Frontier LLM development
Key facts
- Founded in 2021
- Headquartered in San Francisco, California
- Backed by Amazon and Google