Staff Software Engineer, Product

Anthropic; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 320,000 - 405,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity donation matching

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

SF office space

Job summary

Anthropic is hiring a product engineering-focused engineer to join the Claude consumer web app team. You will work with designers and product managers to turn concepts into shipped, polished experiences for millions of users.

The role emphasizes building user-facing features, ensuring high-quality UI, performance, and cross-device reliability. You’ll contribute to fast-moving product development and visible impact within a leading AI safety company.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building consumer-facing web products with strong UI quality and UX focus.
• Proficiency in React, Next.js, and TypeScript; experience with Node.js backend.
• Care for user experience—latency, performance, and cross-device consistency.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for Claude product features and roadmap.
• Build and ship user-facing features for Claude’s web and desktop experiences.
• Own the quality bar for UI, latency, responsiveness, and reliability, advocating for UX early in the process.
• Collaborate with product managers to understand user needs, scope features, and make tradeoffs.
• Iterate quickly based on user feedback and internal testing to improve the experience continuously.

Skills

React

Next.js

TypeScript

Node.js

UI/UX

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Job description

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the role:

Claude is one of the most-used AI products in the world, and the experience we build for our users directly shapes how people interact with AI every day. We're looking for a talented engineer to join the team that builds the consumer web app — the interfaces, interactions, and moments that turn Claude from a capable model into a product people genuinely enjoy using.

This is a product engineering role first and foremost. You'll work closely with designers and product managers to bring features from concept to shipped experience, obsessing over the details that make the difference: how something feels when you first land on it, how smoothly a new interaction flows, how an interface holds up under real-world use.

The pace is fast, the product is evolving quickly, and the opportunity to have a visible, direct impact on how millions of people use AI is real. If you love building consumer products and care about getting the details right, this could be a great fit.

Responsibilities:

• Set technical direction for the Claude product and its features
• Build and ship user-facing features for Claude's web and desktop experience
• Own the quality bar for how the product looks and feels, treating latency, responsiveness, and reliability as first-class concerns rather than afterthoughts, and advocate for user experience and design considerations early in the process
• Collaborate tightly with product managers to understand user needs, shape feature scope, and make informed tradeoffs as you build
• Iterate quickly based on user feedback and internal testing, improving the experience on a continuous basis

You may be a good fit if you:

• Have 5+ years of experience building consumer-facing web products, with a strong emphasis on UI quality and user experience
• Are proficient in React, Next.js, and TypeScript, and have experience with Node.js on the backend side of the stack
• Genuinely care about the user experience — not just how something looks, but how fast it loads, how reliably it works, and how it feels across devices. You think about latency and responsiveness the same way you think about design
• Collaborate well with designers and product managers, and enjoy the iterative process of turning a design into something that works beautifully in the browser
• Are comfortable working in a fast-moving environment where priorities shift and shipping quickly matters
• Pick up slack, even if it goes outside your job description

Strong candidates may also have experience with:

• Performance optimization for consumer web apps — profiling, reducing bundle size, improving rendering performance, and understanding where latency comes from end-to-end
• Designing and implementing responsive layouts that work well across screen sizes and devices
• Working on products with real-time or streaming interactions (chat interfaces, live updates, etc.)
• Working in fast-moving consumer product environments

Candidates need not have:

• 100% of the skills needed to perform the job
• Formal certifications or education credentials

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

Annual Salary:

$320,000 — $405,000 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship:We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

How we're different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.