Staff Software Engineer, Creative Design Tools

Anthropic Limited; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 405,000 - 485,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity donation matching

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office space in San Francisco

Job summary

Anthropic Limited is seeking Software Engineers to help build Claude Design and the creative capabilities of Claude. You will craft the canvas, real-time editing, design-system inference, and AI-driven generation experiences that elevate AI-powered design beyond a demo.

You’ll join a small, fast-moving team with high autonomy, collaborating with researchers and users to ship polished visual tools and experiences across our products.

Qualifications

• Strong design sensibility and a high bar for craft, including attention to interaction details, motion, and polish.
• Strong full-stack engineering skills, including production frontend and backend work on user-facing web products.
• Ability to thrive in ambiguity and be energized by uncertainty.
• High agency, good judgment about what matters, and a bias toward shipping.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship user-facing features across our products, and help decide which creative spaces we explore next
• Set technical direction for these products, including editor and canvas architecture, real-time collaboration, and rich import and export
• Own the quality bar for how these products look and feel, treating latency, responsiveness, and reliability as first-class concerns and raising user experience and design considerations early
• Partner with researchers to rapidly prototype experiences around vision and generation capabilities, and help improve the quality of what Claude generates
• Spend time with users and dig into how people actually use what you ship, then turn what you learn into what we build next
• Build the shared foundations that let us launch new creative tools quickly and make them work well together

Skills

Full-stack engineering

Frontend development

Realtime collaboration

User-centric design

Product engineering

Latency optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Anthropic Limited is seeking Software Engineers to help build Claude Design and the creative capabilities of Claude. You will craft the canvas, real-time editing, design-system inference, and AI-driven generation experiences that elevate AI-powered design beyond a demo.

You’ll join a small, fast-moving team with high autonomy, collaborating with researchers and users to ship polished visual tools and experiences across our products.