Full Stack Engineer, Education Labs

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco, focused on creating reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The team includes researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working to build beneficial AI.

Education Labs builds paradigms that help people become more capable with AI. This role is part researcher, part product builder, part interaction designer. You'll be the second technical builder on a small team, with significant creative license to define what 'good' looks like. You'll operate as a one-person technical shop: prototyping new ideas, establishing technical direction, and shipping production-quality features to millions of users.

• Ship features that help users develop real skill with AI, measuring success by capability growth.
• Architect end-to-end prototypes (front-end and back-end) testing new interaction paradigms, with attention to motion, polish, and interaction feel.
• Define technical direction for the team and establish patterns others can follow.
• Build relationships across Product, Design, and Research to influence product strategy.
• Shape team strategy and roadmap, identifying high-leverage opportunities.
• Translate research insights about skill development and human-AI collaboration into shipped product.
• Document and share work through writing, prototypes, and presentations.

• Strong full-stack engineering with design sensibility.
• 6+ years building and shipping web products with deep expertise across the stack.
• Strong front-end craft: TypeScript/JavaScript, React, CSS, with an eye for interaction design, motion, and visual detail.
• Solid back-end and data pipeline experience: Python, API design, analytics infrastructure.
• A portfolio showcasing innovative interaction designs and high-quality implementations.
• Track record of independently driving features from prototype to production.
• Deep conviction about human capability and how technology should enhance it.
• Experience or passion for skill development, HCI, developer tools, or products that help people become more capable.
• Skepticism of engagement-driven metrics; interest in measuring capability outcomes.
• Research mindset with product execution, comfort with ambiguity, and ability to rapidly prototype and iterate.
• Strategic leadership and coalition building, with experience setting vision and shaping team strategy.
• Strong sense of prioritization and track record of influencing roadmaps.

• Experience in developer tools, creative tools, learning platforms, or similar.
• Background in learning sciences, cognitive science, HCI, skill acquisition research, or educational psychology.
• Experience with experimentation frameworks, A/B testing, or analytics measuring capability development.
• Previous experience in research labs, frontier tech companies, or startups with high autonomy.
• Published writing, talks, or open-source work on skill development, human-AI interaction, or product philosophy.
• Experience building AI-native product experiences or working with LLMs in production.

Annual salary: $300,000—$405,000 USD.

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination. Required field of study: relevant field. Minimum years of experience: correlates with internal job level. Location-based hybrid policy: all staff expected in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas, but not for every role; we make reasonable efforts.