Staff Software Engineer — AI Design Tools (Flexible Hours)

Anthropic Limited; New York (NY); On-site; USD 405,000 - 485,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation and benefits

Equity donation matching (optional)

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking software engineers to help build Claude Design, a visual storytelling toolkit that enables real-time collaboration and AI-driven generation experiences. You will contribute to the canvas, editor, and design-system inference, delivering polished, high-performance user experiences.

You will work at the intersection of cutting-edge research and practical application, partnering with researchers and users to drive rapid iteration and impact.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications: strong design sensibility and craft; strong full-stack engineering on production web apps; thrive in ambiguity; high agency and judgement; user-centric approach; opinions held loosely; care for Anthropic's mission.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship user-facing features across Claude Design products.
• Set technical direction for editor and canvas architecture, real-time collaboration, and import/export.
• Own quality bar for look and feel, latency, and reliability; raise UX considerations early.
• Partner with researchers to prototype experiences around vision and generation capabilities.
• Spend time with users to understand actual usage and feed insights back into development.
• Build shared foundations to launch new creative tools quickly and ensure they work well together.

Skills

Strong design sensibility

Full-stack engineering

Ambiguity tolerance

High agency and judgment

User-centric approach

Opinions held loosely

Mission alignment

UI/UX for AI-powered apps

Frontend canvas rendering

Real-time collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

WebSockets

Job description

Anthropic is seeking software engineers to help build Claude Design, a visual storytelling toolkit that enables real-time collaboration and AI-driven generation experiences. You will contribute to the canvas, editor, and design-system inference, delivering polished, high-performance user experiences.

You will work at the intersection of cutting-edge research and practical application, partnering with researchers and users to drive rapid iteration and impact.