Founding Frontend Engineer — Build Consumer AI Products

Anthropic Limited; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 320,000 - 405,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is hiring a founding engineer to build brand new consumer AI products on the Claude platform. You’ll own bets from idea to launch, shape a lean version one, and ship rapidly. You will balance product ambition with real-world constraints and ensure user-centric design at every step.

You will work across privacy, security, legal, design, and platform teams to deliver high-quality, scalable experiences while evolving the product direction based on user feedback and market needs.

Qualifications

• Experience building consumer-facing products.
• Experience taking a consumer product from nothing to real users.
• Proficiency in React, Next.js, and TypeScript.
• Backend experience with Node.js.

Responsibilities

• Originate new consumer AI product bets and own them from first idea to launch.
• Spot the gap between Claude capabilities and user experience; define what to build and why now.
• Take a vague direction and distill it into a lean version one.
• Set technical direction for the products you build.
• Own the quality bar for product appearance, latency, responsiveness and reliability.
• Collaborate with privacy, security, legal, design, platform teams and external partners to launch.
• Iterate quickly based on user feedback and internal testing.
• Keep pushing new products over the line when bets don’t work the first time.

Skills

React

Next.js

TypeScript

Node.js

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Anthropic is hiring a founding engineer to build brand new consumer AI products on the Claude platform. You’ll own bets from idea to launch, shape a lean version one, and ship rapidly. You will balance product ambition with real-world constraints and ensure user-centric design at every step.

You will work across privacy, security, legal, design, and platform teams to deliver high-quality, scalable experiences while evolving the product direction based on user feedback and market needs.