Staff Software Engineer – Creative AI Design Tools

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Equity matching

Generous vacation

Parental leave

Flexible hours

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking Software Engineers to help build Claude Design and the creative capabilities of Claude. You will craft the canvas, real-time editing, and AI-driven design experiences that users reach for first, while partnering with researchers and users to shape the product direction.

You’ll work on a small, autonomous team at the intersection of cutting-edge research and real-world application, delivering polished, production-ready features and exploring new design-tools capabilities.

Qualifications

• Experience with visual collaboration and creative tools.
• Experience with UI/UX for AI-powered apps and collaborating with designers.
• Frontend expertise in canvas rendering and editor UIs, design-system tooling, or graphics (WebGL/ shaders/ 3D/ animation).
• Experience with real-time, collaborative apps like multiplayer editing and WebSockets.
• Background in user research and usability testing.

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 the quality bar for look and feel, latency, responsiveness, and reliability.
• Partner with researchers to prototype experiences around vision and generation capabilities.
• Spend time with users and turn insights into what we build next.
• Build shared foundations to launch new creative tools quickly and integrate well with other products.
• Maintain strong craft, including interaction details, motion, and polish.
• Full-stack work on production frontend and backend for web products.
• Thrives in ambiguity with high agency and sound judgment.
• Advocate for ideas but adjust with evidence.
• Care for Anthropic's mission and societal impacts.

Skills

Visual collaboration

AI UI/UX

Frontend

Real-time collaboration

User research

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

WebGL

Shaders

WebSockets

Design-system tooling

Job description

Anthropic is seeking Software Engineers to help build Claude Design and the creative capabilities of Claude. You will craft the canvas, real-time editing, and AI-driven design experiences that users reach for first, while partnering with researchers and users to shape the product direction.

You’ll work on a small, autonomous team at the intersection of cutting-edge research and real-world application, delivering polished, production-ready features and exploring new design-tools capabilities.