Staff Frontend Engineer, AI Design Studio

Anthropic; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 320,000 - 485,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Generous vacation and parental leave

Office in San Francisco

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a software engineer to help build Claude Design, a frontend-heavy product for real‑time collaboration and AI‑driven design. You’ll craft the canvas, live editing, and design-system inference, and partner with researchers and designers to turn ideas into tangible experiences.

This role demands strong frontend expertise, comfort with complex UI, and the ability to ship early and iterate. You’ll set technical direction, mentor others, and ensure latency and polish meet high

Qualifications

• Strong frontend and full-stack capability with frontend-heavy focus.
• Experience shipping production-grade UI/UX for complex apps.
• Ability to mentor and lead while staying hands-on in code.

Responsibilities

• Build Claude Design's core surfaces (canvas, live editing, comments).
• Collaborate with researchers and designers to translate vision into product.
• Set technical direction and mentor engineers as the team grows.
• Run experiments to validate product hypotheses and measure performance.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Node.js

Python

Go

Frontend architecture

Real-time collaboration

Canvas rendering

UI/UX for AI

Design-system tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

WebSockets

WebGL

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a software engineer to help build Claude Design, a frontend-heavy product for real‑time collaboration and AI‑driven design. You’ll craft the canvas, live editing, and design-system inference, and partner with researchers and designers to turn ideas into tangible experiences.

This role demands strong frontend expertise, comfort with complex UI, and the ability to ship early and iterate. You’ll set technical direction, mentor others, and ensure latency and polish meet high