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
The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.
For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.
Annual Salary:
$320,000—$405,000 USD