Staff Software Engineer, Product

Anthropic; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 320,000 - 405,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a talented product engineer to join the team that builds the Claude web and desktop experience. You will work with designers and product managers to translate concepts into polished, ship-ready UI features that feel fast and reliable across devices.

You will own the technical direction for Claude, ship user-facing features, and focus on latency, responsiveness, and overall user experience, enabling millions of users to interact with AI seamlessly.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a relevant field.
• 5+ years of experience building consumer-facing web products with a strong UX focus.
• Proficiency in React, Next.js, TypeScript, and Node.js.

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 latency, responsiveness, and reliability.
• Collaborate with product managers to understand user needs and tradeoffs as you build.
• Iterate quickly based on user feedback and internal testing, improving the experience continually.

Skills

React

Next.js

TypeScript

Node.js

UI Quality

User Experience

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree

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 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

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.