Staff+ Software Engineer, Consumer

About the role

We're a small zero-to-one team at Anthropic building brand new consumer AI products. Our mandate: put the full power of frontier Claude models in people's hands, in products that don't exist yet.

You'd be a founding engineer, and engineers here own products end to end. You won't be handed a spec. You'll come up with the bet, shape a vague idea into the leanest real version one, and ship it. Most zero-to-one bets don't work the first time, so you'll keep pushing new products over the line. If you'd rather have a clear spec and a stable surface, that's a valid preference. It's just not this team.

Claude is already one of the most-used AI products in the world. What we build shapes how millions of people use AI every day. The pace is fast and the products are new. If you love building consumer products from scratch and care about getting the details right, we'd like to hear from you.

Key responsibilities

• Originate new consumer AI product bets and own them from first idea to launch
• Spot the gap between what Claude can do and what people actually experience, and bring the bet: what to build, why now, and the cheapest way to test it
• Take a vague direction and cut it down to the leanest real version one
• Set technical direction for the products you build
• Own the quality bar for how the product looks and feels, treating latency, responsiveness, and reliability as first-class concerns
• Partner with privacy, security, legal, design, platform teams and external partners to find a path to launch
• Iterate quickly based on user feedback and internal testing
• Keep pushing new products over the line, since most zero-to-one bets don't work the first time

Minimum qualifications

• Experience building consumer-facing products, with a strong emphasis on product quality and user experience
• Experience taking a consumer product from nothing to real users
• Proficiency in React, Next.js, and TypeScript
• Backend experience with Node.js

Preferred qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building consumer-facing products, with a strong emphasis on product quality and user experience
• Experience founding a company, being on a founding team, or being an early engineer on a new consumer product
• Experience with products that have real-time or streaming interactions (chat interfaces, live updates)
• Experience optimizing performance for consumer web apps, from bundle size and rendering to end-to-end latency
• High agency: you pick a bet and own it without a roadmap
• Relentlessness: you keep going when a bet fails, verify instead of assume, and stay curious rather than frustrated
• Product taste: you care a lot about product craft, and you know what you'd refuse to ship
• Unusually high EQ: you understand other teams' constraints, seek out collaborations that create value for both sides, and can work with any team at Anthropic
• Willingness to pick up slack, even if it goes outside your job description

Annual Salary

$320,000 — $405,000 USD