Software Engineer; Claude Design

Requirements

• Have 8+ years of experience building full-stack applications with deep frontend strength, and a track record of zero-to-one work in startup or startup-like environments
• Have set technical direction for a team or workstream and mentored other engineers, while staying hands-on in the code
• Have strong design sensibility and a high bar for craft; you sweat interaction details, motion, and polish
• Have strong technical skills across modern web stacks (React, Type Script, Node.js, Python, Go, etc.), including complex client-side state, performance, APIs, databases, and cloud technologies
• Are comfortable working in a fast-moving environment where priorities shift and shipping quickly matters
• Are deeply user-centric: you enjoy validating ideas with actual users before over-investing and you talk about problems before solutions
• Hold strong opinions loosely: you advocate forcefully for ideas but change your mind based on evidence
• Are a generalist who can move comfortably between frontend, backend, and product problems as the work demands
• Work independently with good judgment about what matters, without needing constant direction
• Communicate effectively and translate complex AI capabilities into intuitive experiences
• Care about the societal impacts and ethics of your work
• (Desirable) Extensive experience working with or building visual collaboration & creative tools (e.g., Figma, Canva, Adobe Creative Cloud, etc), and have strong opinions on how they could become more magical experiences
• (Desirable) Hands‑on experience with UI/UX for AI‑powered applications, and fluency collaborating closely with designers
• (Desirable) Background conducting user research, interviews, and usability testing
• (Desirable) Deep frontend expertise in canvas rendering, complex editor UIs, design‑system tooling, or graphics work (WebGL/shaders, 3D, animation)
• (Desirable) Experience with real‑time, collaborative applications (multiplayer editing, Web Sockets) or complex, high‑performance frontend interactions
• Candidates need not have 100% of the skills listed above
• Formal certifications or education credentials
• Direct machine learning or AI research experience
• Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications.
  
  We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team

• At Anthropic, we're building AI systems that are safe, beneficial, and transformative. Our mission is to develop AI that benefits humanity, and we believe the most powerful capabilities emerge when we thoughtfully bridge the gap between research breakthroughs and real‑world applications
• Claude Design is the newest product from Anthropic Labs, the internal accelerator behind Claude Code and MCP. It lets anyone collaborate with Claude to create polished visual work: interactive prototypes, product mockups, slides, one‑pagers, and marketing collateral. Start from a prompt, an image, or your own codebase, and Claude builds a first version that you refine through conversation, inline comments, direct edits, and live adjustment controls, then hand off to Claude Code to build for real.
  
  We launched in research preview in April 2026, and the product is new enough that the engineers who join now will define what it becomes
• We're looking for Software Engineers to help build and shape Claude Design. This is a craft‑heavy, frontend‑leaning role: you'll create the canvas, real‑time editing, design‑system inference, and AI‑driven generation experiences that make AI‑generated design feel like a tool people reach for first– not a demo. You'll work at the intersection of cutting‑edge research and real‑world application, rapidly building and testing new experiences, partnering directly with researchers and…