Staff Software Engineer: Creative Tools & Real-Time Canvas

Candidate; San Francisco (CA); 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 design and ship Claude Design, a visual storytelling tool for interactive prototypes, slides, and motion. You’ll bridge research and product, building the canvas, real-time editing, and AI-driven generation experiences that feel like a polished studio tool.

You’ll work with researchers and designers, own the editor architecture, enable real-time collaboration, and ensure latency, responsiveness, and reliability meet high craft standards.

Qualifications

• Strong design sensibility with attention to interaction details, motion, and polish.
• Strong full-stack engineering skills for production frontend and backend.
• Ability to thrive in ambiguity and move fast in uncertain environments.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship user-facing features across Claude Design products.
• Set technical direction for editor and canvas architecture, real-time collaboration.
• Own the quality bar for latency, responsiveness, and reliability in UX.
• Partner with researchers to prototype experiences around vision and generation.
• Engage with users to learn how features are used and inform next builds.
• Build shared foundations to enable new creative tools.

Skills

Strong design sensibility

Full-stack engineering

Ambiguity tolerance

Shipping focus

User-centric approach

Strong opinions loosely held

Care for Anthropic's mission

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

WebGL

Shaders

3D graphics

WebSockets

Job description

Anthropic is seeking software engineers to help design and ship Claude Design, a visual storytelling tool for interactive prototypes, slides, and motion. You’ll bridge research and product, building the canvas, real-time editing, and AI-driven generation experiences that feel like a polished studio tool.

You’ll work with researchers and designers, own the editor architecture, enable real-time collaboration, and ensure latency, responsiveness, and reliability meet high craft standards.