Staff Software Engineer, Claude Design

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. 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.

• Build and ship Claude Design's core surfaces (design canvas, real-time editing, inline comments, live adjustment controls).
• Collaborate closely with research teams to turn frontier vision and generation capabilities into intuitive, high-craft design experiences.
• Work directly with designers, internal test users, and external partners to gather feedback and iterate.
• Set technical direction for the hardest frontend problems: editor and canvas architecture, real-time collaboration, design-system inference, rich import/export, and performance.
• Design and run experiments to test product hypotheses.
• Own the quality bar for how the product looks and feels.
• Strengthen the handoff to Claude Code so designs translate cleanly into production.
• Operate as a technical leader on a small team: shape roadmap, make architecture decisions, mentor engineers.

You may be a good fit if you have 8+ years of experience building full-stack applications with deep frontend strength, a track record of zero-to-one work, have set technical direction and mentored engineers, have strong design sensibility, strong technical skills across modern web stacks (React, TypeScript, Node.js, Python, Go, etc.), are comfortable in a fast-moving environment, are deeply user-centric, hold strong opinions loosely, are a generalist, work independently, communicate effectively, and care about societal impacts.

Strong candidates may also have experience with visual collaboration & creative tools (e.g., Figma, Canva, Adobe Creative Cloud), hands-on experience with UI/UX for AI-powered applications, background in user research, deep frontend expertise in canvas rendering, complex editor UIs, design-system tooling, or graphics work (WebGL/shaders, 3D, animation), and experience with real-time, collaborative applications (multiplayer editing, WebSockets).

Annual Salary: $320,000—$485,000 USD.

San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA. Hybrid: at least 25% in office.

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.